They're already moving beyond early target cities like Beijing and Shanghai into second-tier cities.
Some foreign basketball players aren't exactly roughing it in the more-cosmopolitan cities like Beijing and Shanghai.
China housing prices have soared over the last five years, especially in the eastern cities like Beijing and Shanghai.
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Mintz sees growth in owning movie houses: DMG has begun building branded cinemas in malls in cities like Beijing, Shenzhen and Nanjing.
House price increases occurred in metropolitan cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, led by Hangzhou, which posted a modest increase of 0.6%.
Though calling it a local deals business in a mega-city like Beijing, for example, is a little bit of a misnomer, Chao says.
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That's added some 27 million square feet of shopping space to cities like Beijing and Guangzhou in China and Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia.
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Some, like Beijing-based designer Mi Qiu, believe China ought to preserve more of its traditional housing forms like the centuries-old villages and hutong--neighborhoods traversed by narrow, winding alleys.
According to the NSB index of residential property prices in 70 tier 1 and tier 2 cities, prices fell in highly populated cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen to name a few.
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The roads they drive on may be crowded in cities like Beijing, and the roads full of potholes in second and third tier cities, but Chinese consumers are giving up their bikes for cars.
Analysts like Yulong Li, research director at Balentine in Atlanta, have been saying that a 20% to 30% year-over-year correction in Chinese real estate along coastal cities like Beijing and Shanghai would not be unheard of.
Over the last few years, cruise ships have been spending more time in the most popular ports like Beijing and Bangkok, giving passengers the opportunity to take overland tours or long day trips, as well as experience the nightlife.
"China's wealth is spreading beyond the entertainment industry's traditionally big markets in eastern cities like Beijing and Shanghai, and moving further out into second- and third-tier cities, " says Echo Yang, who compiled the list for Forbes China.
Bramah wrapped up the panel by saying investors should favor companies that build mass-market residential housing over luxury developments, as well as ones that focus on the slightly smaller, second-tier cities in the mainland rather than metropolises like Beijing and Shanghai.
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Housing prices in the big eastern seaboard cities like Beijing and Shanghai remain high compared to where they were five years ago, but have been coming down month over month due to the current policies that curb lending to the sector and restrict home purchases, especially for non-resident home buyers, foreign investors, and second or third home buyers.
"New York, Paris, Las Vegas - I love Las Vegas, Madrid, I like, Beijing, Roma, Vietnam, " Olga says.
To demonstrate, Otellini showed off a mobile device on a set designed to look like a Beijing street corner.
Like the Beijing 2008 Olympics or the Shanghai 2010 World Expo.
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In the hope of finding future growth, developers are turning to mixed-use centers, projects that combine retail, dining, entertainment and residential living units, not unlike some of the new Asian malls, like the Beijing Mall and Berjaya Times Square in Malaysia.
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He said companies are unlikely to pull out of China in any case, but they likely will think twice about moves like shifting their regional headquarters to Beijing from places like Singapore and Hong Kong.
All the first-tier cities like Shanghai and Beijing saw their price hikes slow, but they are still higher than before.
He's incredibly fast and looks like, by Beijing, he might make the qualifying time for the Olympics, let alone the Paralympics.
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The latest trend is for foreign investment flows into second and third tier cities rather than the major eastern seaboard cities like Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou.
Students are also looking further afield than long-popular Europe, heading instead to places like Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Like the students in Beijing, he wants to help modernize his home country one day by drawing on his experience in China.
"There's no way to predict how it will spread but it's not surprising if we have new cases in different places like we do in Beijing, " he told reporters.
Like the constant construction in Beijing and Shanghai, Tokyo was on a fast-forward spree of tear-downs and building, clearing the flimsy structures put up hastily after clearing the firebombing rubble.
According to a Middle Eastern diplomat in Beijing, China would like not to get too involved.
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