Basketball is hugely popular in China with as many as 300 million people interested in the sport.

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Tencent QQ is already a wildly popular instant messaging platform in China, with over 700 million active users.

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The restaurant is in a northern Beijing suburb popular with young executives, representative of China's surging wealth and the size of its business class.

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Mr Clinton, who is touring China, was the guest on Shanghai's popular Radio 909 phone-in along with the Shanghai city mayor.

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