Executives have been pressing officials in China to include GE's advanced boiling-water reactors in their next five-year economic plan (China uses the pressurized reactors championed by perennial GE rival Westinghouse, now part of British Nuclear Fuels Ltd.).
The deal is part of a five-year plan by China to get more people using open source software.
The SUV boom is a detour from Beijing's automotive master plan for China to become a leader in electric cars.
The difference is that a stimulus plan in China was done in an underlying atmosphere where there was pretty strong demand anyway.
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The plan gives China's biggest domestic carmaker a foothold in the second-fastest-growing car market in the world (after China itself), and helps cash-strapped GM mount a more vigorous push into India, where it has struggled for years to reach its target of 10% market share.
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The Reds plan to visit China, Malaysia and Korea during a summer pre-season tour of the Far East.
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This is important because the five-year plan estimates that China will need to create 45 million new jobs over the next five years, a staggering 10 million new jobs each and every year.
The intent is to develop reportable and verifiable measures in the plan that could facilitate China's participation in an international climate agreement.
On the agenda is a new five-year economic plan meant to help China wean itself off investment and exports and rely more on consumption to drive growth.
The Office is developing, through multi-disciplinary consultations, a training manual to offer a glossary of key concepts and best journalistic practices, as well as to take stock of government normative actions, such as the up-coming China National Plan for Food Safety and Nutrition 2011-2020.
China's plan for 2011-2015 includes reversing the damage done by 30 years of growth and increasing the use of renewable energy.
After discussing the plan with friends back in China that had been working for Baidu and Alibaba, the two were swayed.
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Christine Milne, a Greens parliamentarian, reckons Australia's plan will boost incentives for China and South Korea, which are exploring market-based anti-carbon mechanisms themselves.
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For example, some labor representatives on Chrysler's supervisory board had resisted Chrysler's plan to hook up with China's Chery Automobile to develop a low-cost mini-car for North America and Europe.
In November, China unveiled a plan to subsidize 0.4 yuan (6.4 cents) for each cubic meter of shale gas produced between 2012 and 2015, according to the Chinese Ministry of Finance.
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In particular, China gave up a plan for its own wireless encryption standard.
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The Chinese government announced a plan to slow the growth of China's carbon emissions, which are linked to climate change.
Both Russia and France - as two of the five permanent members of the Security Council - have the power to veto the US draft plan, as does permanent member China.
Even urban Chinese are now being strongly encouraged by their government to plan two trips a year within China, and to spend about ten percent of their disposable income on such travel.
China has criticised a US plan to strengthen its missile defences in response to North Korea's growing military capabilities.
China Daily says the draft plan "aims to streamline government agencies that may have overlapping functions and generally reduce red tape".
An agreement to double daily passenger flights to China by 2012 and a plan to allow securities firms to expand their scope in were the big takeaways.
Several of these firms are based in the British Virgin Islands or other offshore tax havens and plan to invest primarily in places like China or the Russian Federation.
Growth has risen faster than emissions, at global and national levels, and more is to come: China's latest national plan, for example, calls for a 40-45% reduction in carbon intensity without compromising economic development.
For example, Foxconn has over 1 million employees in China, and although the company currently has 10K robots in China as well, the plan is to utilize 300, 000 robots by 2012 and 1 million by 2014.
In 2006, China's leadership unveiled the "National Medium- and Long-Term Plan for the Development of Science and Technology, " a blueprint for turning China into a tech powerhouse by 2020.
China, Japan and South Korea plan to discuss the warship's sinking this weekend.
The plan is to follow the Chinese wallet outside China.
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