The cost of living in China is very different from that in the West.
Luxury consumption in China has seen double digit growth in recent years as a result of rapid economic growth and rising standards of living in China.
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The center is housed in a traditional courtyard mansion restored by two Americans, Brian and Jeanee Linden, who have been studying, working and living in China since the 1980s.
This suggests that the base pay rates remain too low and that many workers are struggling to make ends meet given the rising cost of living in China and the difficulty that single children have in supporting two aging parents.
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We also believe the demand for tourism property will increase as living standards in China constantly improve.
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So, I asked the PR person for this campaigner what they thought a living wage in China was.
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Chinese workers seem willing to change jobs for a slight increase in pay in order to stay above inflation as the cost of living in coastal China rises.
Average living standards in China are still only a sixth and in India a fourteenth of those in America at PPP exchange rates, but the gap is already much smaller than it was and is closing fast.
We cannot claim the same number of Americans in China, but our 100, 000 Strong Initiative will dramatically increase the number of young Americans living and studying in China.
That figure will climb steeply as more than 2 billion people living in India, China and other developing nations raise their standard of living.
Xinhua said the health ministry estimates the number of people living with HIV in China had reached 740, 000 by October 2009, with deaths caused by AIDS totaling 49, 845 since the first case was reported in 1985.
Chinese viewers will see a movie about Jeff Chang, a Chinese native living in America but returning to China.
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Rising living standards in developing economies like China will keep prices of natural resources high as demand outpaces supply.
Buckley, who had been living in Thailand, travelled to China for a demonstration of the process before sponsoring the chemists' visa applications to come to Britain.
While Americans saw Chang as a med-student son of an immigrant father, Chinese viewers will see a film about a Chinese native living in America but returning to China.
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In the last few years China has had increases in standards of living and income that are pretty much equivalent to what took 500 years in the West.
Even within China, living standards in the major cities, Beijing and Shanghai, are very different from those in smaller inland cities such as Hefei and Kaifeng.
Researchers have been able to trace a line between some of the earliest modern humans to settle in China and people living in the region today.
The Earth does not have enough clean water, good pasture land or even livable space along coasts to have everyone in, say, the poorer areas of western China and central India living and driving the way we do in, say, northern Virginia.
Christopher Thomas is an American executive and professor living part-time in both California and China.
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The population of rich people living in Asia-Pacific, led by China with over 535, 000 millionaires, according to Capgemini, surpassed that of Europe in 2009.
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Those users include one musician from a small town in China who makes a good living by writing her own music and singing it online to appreciative audiences.
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Cheap, powerful iPhones designed in the U.S. and built in China contribute to that increased standard of living.
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However, luxury brands pursuing a bricks-and-mortar strategy in China could be missing out on shoppers living outside showcase cities.
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In the less developed markets of the world, the cost perspectives, living and operating conditions and emissions regulations are closer to where they are in China than they are in the United States, Germany or Japan.
And examples of ancient silk garments, accessories and textiles are being shown outside China for the first time as Nottingham Castle hosts the Living in Silk exhibition as part of the East Midlands' Cultural Olympiad, the council said.
China Central Television and other major media say four new people living in different cities in Jiangsu province are in critical condition with H7N9, a strain of bird flu that was previously unknown in humans.
Mr. Wang launched a "Happy Guangdong" campaign this year, pledging to focus on improving living standards while slowing GDP growth in the province of 104 million people that pioneered China's economic reforms and has long been seen as a bellwether of the country's future.
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