It's a rather nondescript city, the capital of Anhui province in the rice belt of central China.
By the time of the Han dynasty - still more than 2, 000 years ago - China's borders already closely resembled those of eastern and central China today.
China recently completed a 1, 100-mile gas pipeline to connect its factories and power plants to the vast gas reserves of Central Asia, part of China's stiff competition with Europe over a key energy source.
Under the framework deal with China, Turkmenistan planned to export 5 bcm to China in 2010 using the first trunk of the Central Asia-China pipeline, and to then increase these exports to 40 bcm per year by 2012, when the second trunk line of the pipeline is to be completed.
In a little-noticed comment during the weekend's meetings, Yi Gang, a deputy governor of China's central bank and head of the country's foreign-exchange reserves, said that China aimed to bring its current-account surplus below 4% of GDP within 3-5 years.
Turning back to New Year festivities, The Beijing News recaps the highlights of Saturday's China Central Television's New Year evening gala, one of the most-watched television shows on Earth.
It enjoys immense natural resources and dominance of international trade routes to and from south central China and the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean.
And in China, smog is starting to clear in some parts of the country, China Central Television reports.
With the probable exception of China, central banks in some emerging markets already seem to be cutting.
The Central Bank of China lowered reserve requirement ratios, which gives banks more money to loan rather than keeping cash on reserve.
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The Central Bank of China is paying closer attention to this.
The central banks of China, India, Russia, Thailand, South Korea etc have increased their gold holdings, while hedge funds with leveraged golds positions have lightened up.
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Last week, the Peoples Central Bank of China allowed the yuan to strengthen and it moved to its highest level versus the dollar in 17 years.
The currency is closely monitored by the Central Bank of China and in the spot market, is allowed to rise or fall by 1 percent from the set parity rate each trading day.
Other gold investors believe that continued weakness in the dollar will attract more gold investors like the central banks of China, Russia and India, who see the precious metal as an alternative to paper currency.
Mr Sha, the company's best manager, who ran a rubber-parts factory in the mountains of Anhui province in central China, secretly set up a rival plant down the valley which he financed by siphoning money from the Asimco joint venture.
The Central Bank of China does.
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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.
Then, too, the story has passed from the gold gurus like Frank Giustra, and the central banks of China, India and Russia, among others, to the hedge fund giants like George Soros and John Paulson, among others, to mutual fund groups like US Global Resources to pension funds, wealthy families.
Added to the likes of billionaire investors George Soros and John Paulson, the central banks of emerging markets including China, India, and even the oil producers, are retail investors.
The Seal Engravers Society of Xiling in Zhejiang Province, central China, which was founded a century ago, preserves the art of seal engraving along with approximately a hundred other specialized institutions.
Zhang Xiao'an, vice-chairwoman of the United Nations Association of China, came to Beijing's defence this morning on China Central Television by stressing that the Chinese Foreign Ministry made a "very clear-cut response this time".
"We should avoid any excuse that might lead to the revitalization of trade protectionism, " said Su Ning of the People's Bank of China, the country's central bank.
Bamboo Capitalism describes the thicket of almost 40 million enterprises of all kinds in every part of China that do not have the central government hanging over their shoulder.
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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After these remarks, the head of China's central bank called for the creation of a new international currency reserve to replace the dollar.
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Its director is Wei Benhua, a veteran of China's central bank.
The governor of China's central bank called for a new world reserve currency to replace the dollar , which he suggested could be issued by the IMF.
"They have the tools they need to keep this from becoming a much worse slowdown, " Aaron Gurwitz, chief investment officer at Barclays Wealth, says of China's central bankers.
Over the weekend, the head of China's central bank also gave a speech indicating that the yuan could be revalued in the near future (though he blamed international pressure, rather than internal imbalances).
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