With a heavily export-led development model, the feeling was that it was in China's interest to prop up the dollar system.
More striking, the average fall is faster than it was in China in the early 1980s, when child mortality was declining around 3% a year, admittedly from a lower base.
Gunpowder may date back as far as the 4th century, when it was invented in China--perhaps by someone trying to mix sulfur, charcoal and saltpeter into medicine.
It has been in the headlines anew in recent weeks after an apparent clone of it was discovered in central China.
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Many scholars, however, believe it was first used in China more than 2, 000 years ago, and that it was brought to Japan, along with Buddhism, in the 6th century.
America came bottom of everyone's list everywhere except in India, where it was top, Poland, where it was in the middle and China, where it came above Japan.
The World Health Organization said yesterday it was in talks with China about sending experts to China to investigate the new H7N9 infections.
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Coca Cola's Pulpy is now a billion-dollar global brand, but it was first a smash in China.
It was in September 2009 that China first proposed creating the international centre under the auspices of UNESCO.
It was higher than expected in China, India, and in the Eurozone.
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In June, Pacific Andes announced the purchase of new rights in Peru and that it was increasing its stake to 41% in China Fishery Group, a Singapore-listed subsidiary.
First in user-generated content, Tudou has grown organically, since it was the first online video site in China, launching in January 2005.
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Soon after my 1991 arrival in Hong Kong, it became clear to me that China was, in fact, the growth engine that was driving the entire Asian region.
It was the first visit to China since Noda was sworn in as Prime Minister.
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An otherwise exemplary IT employee, Bob had, as it was discovered, outsourced his IT duties to a counterpart in China for a fraction of his salary.
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The biggest retailer in the world said on Feb. 19 that it was expanding its e-commerce investments in China and further north there is talk of the company wanting to get back into Russia after leaving Moscow in 2010.
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Highlighted in a feature report in China Daily on Wednesday, a California LED light company called Seesmart said it was building factories in California and Illinois, instead of expanding their presence in China.
One of their relatives was a diplomat in China in the 1880s and was given it as a gift.
Eight years ago GM scuttled its first joint venture in China because it was such a miserable failure.
Zuckerberg said it was important for Facebook to succeed in China and has been mulling over the right strategy.
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"If it was as easy to do business in China as it is in Singapore, perhaps we'd see other main players setting up there, " he says.
If China were building infrastructure projects in triplicate, it might portend that China was overbuilding at a faster pace than Dubai.
It says it was warned by China's central bank that Alipay would not be allowed to operate if it was, in effect, partly foreign-owned.
High salaries as a marketing strategy worked in the U.S., and it was hoped that this would be a good marketing ploy in China as well.
"Everybody in the gold market knew there was a surge in investment demand, but they didn't know it was China, " said Jeff Christian, managing director at CPM Group.
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