Taiwan residents write Chinese using traditional characters, while mainlanders prefer simplified forms adopted in 1951.
The overall index increased 23% as visiting mainlanders spending freely boosted companies from retailers to casino outfits.
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Mauritius and the Seychelles are run-away winners, with Botswana best of the mainlanders.
Many of the plum jobs in the tourist industry already go to mainlanders.
Although, of course, there are countless millions of upstanding mainlanders, the country does have a sorry commercial reputation to live down.
Mainlanders are blamed for shortages of baby formula and rising property prices.
Commentators accuse the authorities of fiddling the numbers, of disregarding realities that suggest the likely influx would be much smaller and of demonizing mainlanders.
The mainlanders who, he says, are starting to dominate the new flow of Chinese money into California aren't buying the same things for the moment.
Mainlanders need a visa to go to Macau, and the authorities are apt to change the frequency and duration of permitted visits on a whim.
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Most of today's newly wealthier mainlanders stay fixed on the biggest international (usually European) design names, and there's no predicting when they'll develop a truly local taste.
Last year, after a number of embarrassing stories about government officials using public funds to bet in Macau, mainlanders were limited to one visit every three months.
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The bullet-riddled bodies of six of the 23 crew, most of them mainlanders, have been dragged up in fishermen's nets off Shantou, a port in China's Guangdong province.
Mainlanders will probably provide a large chunk of the clientele.
China's banking sector is closed to foreign investors, but the CEO has made a personal crusade of trying to convince Beijing to exempt Taiwan businessmen from restrictions on non-mainlanders.
The Iranians have since strengthened their grip on the islands, settling mainlanders and building military defences, though Mr Ahmadinejad is the first head of government actually to visit any of them.
That comment is what led Fong to crack his joke about blessing the mainlanders, while at the same time lamenting the fact that they can push up prices for everyone else.
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Officially, mainlanders are permitted to venture overseas only as part of tour groups organized by state-owned travel agencies--a legacy of the days when Chinese vacationers often chose not to return--and then only for business or family reasons.
The Foreign Earned Income Exclusion Credit (FEIE), which many mainlanders are fond of pointing to as a major accomodation. is actually not meant as an accomodation but as a way for the U.S. to maintain its fictional right to tax its citizens.
Korea has also been wooing mainlanders by granting visas upon arrival at Kimpo Airport, increasing Korean Air and Asiana flights to Seoul and Cheju Island and by assigning 35 travel agencies to cater to Chinese tourists, 210, 000 of whom are anticipated this year.
Opportunities in tourism and fishing have tempted mainlanders to the islands in recent years: the population, swollen by now to 16, 000-plus, has been rising by 6% a year, increasing pressures on the 97% of the archipelago classified since 1959 as national park and not for human habitation.
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