With the rapid industrialization that has occurred in China, it is no surprise that China is now the largest market for machine tools in the world.
Just now it may feel that, in China, memories are all it has.
Earlier this year Mozilla hired away Li Gong, MSN's highest-ranking executive in China, to increase adoption of the Firefox browser in China, where it now has a meager 1% share.
In 1994 it opened its first store in China and now has 54 stores there.
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Ironically Li Ning has been one of the leaders in selling cheap basketball shoes in China, but it now is using Shaq to graduate to selling high-end shoes.
It is also making cheaper PVC-based vinyl gloves, which are marketed to the food industry, in China, where it now has one plant and is adding a second.
No word on price or availability, though we should see it in China before it the end of the year -- now we've just gotta figure out how to sneak one into the States.
's official position now is that it remains confident about its business in China.
The theme may have helped its success in China where the firm said it now had more than one million users.
In contemporary China, it appears that now is all that matters.
Labor issues became so serious that Foxconn Technology Group, which now employs 1.2 million workers in China, decided it had to automate.
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While China is investing heavily now in green tech, it is still consuming ever larger amounts of coal and oil to drive its economic growth.
Now it is acquiring them, leading policymakers in Washington to a startling realization: if China dominates the Western Pacific, it will control the industrial heartland of the global economy.
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The firm sold 71, 940 vehicles in China last year, meaning it has now overtaken the UK to become JLR's biggest market.
It entered China in 1996 and now runs over 350 stores in 130 cities or so, with a network estimated at 20, 000 suppliers.
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And its economy, though it has now been overtaken in size by China's, remains home to a huge industrial apparatus with the innovative clout to make life easier for its elderly citizens.
But what happens in Hong Kong, now that it is fully part of China, is bound to have an impact.
It's Samsung's upcoming Galaxy Tab and it's on the loose right now in China with ifanr to thank for this round of pics.
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They want their country to rely less on exports and massive investments in construction projects as it does now, and develop instead China's own, domestic economy.
Some U.S. officials and analysts say they now detect a shift in China's position, pointing out that it has backed U.N. sanctions against North Korea, kept quiet about the recent U.S. dispatch of B-2 bombers and F-22 fighter jets to South Korea and allowed unusually direct criticism of Pyongyang in state-controlled its media.
It is now in everybody's interest to push China to overhaul its health care, pensions and corporate governance.
So it is now cash-rich producers in the Gulf and China that are making acquisitions.
The GDP of China and India is many times bigger now than it was in the mid-1970s.
That said, you should read this guide to China right now this minute in case the legal eagles make them take it down.
It's now a multinational player, with rabbis in China, Japan, India, Belgium and Israel who certify nearly 500, 000 products from about 3, 000 companies.
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Translated into the human speak, it means that Apple and China mobile are now engaged in negotiations about order commitments, price, subsidy amounts and revenue sharing.
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Obviously, as everyone says, Brazil is the next China it's now the sixth-largest economy in the world.
Coca Cola's Pulpy is now a billion-dollar global brand, but it was first a smash in China.
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