This chart, from the World Bank's China 2030 report earlier this year, makes the point.
Then there's China, which has climbed to the world's number two spot in oil consumption.
Slow things down for dinner with a ballad of international flavours from the hotel's China Grill.
's China business more than quadrupled to 297 million yuan in 2011 after having fallen 49% the previous year.
"It won't affect Apple's China strategies", said Qu Xiaodong, a senior IT expert.
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HSBC's China PMI is seen as a forward-looking indicator, based on surveys with executives in over 420 manufacturing companies.
"In the next ten years I won't be able to export, " says Philip Murtaugh, chief executive of GM's China Group.
Standard Chartered PLC's China unit reported profit of 883 million yuan, more than double what it earned the previous year.
One other report from Shanghai's China Business News says the World Bank has published a report on China's government-controlled business.
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There's no secret to what's driving Hollywood's China policy, which has burst on the scene with meteor-like intensity in the past year.
Now it's China, India and a host of other upwardly striving nations.
"China has 10, 000 hotels but less than 200 with any sort of national brand, " says Super 8's China chief executive, Mitchell Presnick.
But in today's China, English was compulsory from the sixth grade on, and the language had become an obsession among the younger generation.
Ford also unveiled three SUVs at the show, including the EcoSport, which is expected to be manufactured at the company's China factory in Chongqing.
Finally there's China Unicom's HTC One SU, with a similar body to its SC counterpart, but featuring powder blue as an accent color.
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"The race for luring the Chinese tourists is getting more and more competitive, " said Han Hwa-joon, head of the Korean Tourism Organization's China team.
If there's one country in the world which is driving the world economy at the moment in terms of differences at the margin, it's China.
Alternative sources accounting for flows through third countries, such as Rhodium Group's China Investment Monitor, point to an even sharper increase of up to 1, 300%.
Zhou Xiaopeng, a consultant at one of China's top three dating agencies, Baihe.com, talks to the BBC about marriage, love and dating in today's China.
Just ask Nerissa Lee, manager of Guinness Flight Asia's China Fund.
The entity's China Fishery Group subsidiary is the second-largest catch-and-freeze seafood company in Asia, after Japan's Nippon Suisan Kaisha, and is gaining on the Japanese company.
The entity's China Fishery Group subsidiary is the second-largest catch-and-freeze seafood company in Asia, after Japan's Nippon Suisan Kaisha, and is ramping up to claim world leadership.
For a graphical look at U.S. export growth to China by state, see the U.S. China Business Council, a lobby group representing U.S. companies doing business in China.
Faisal's China connections have grown from Haier and a venture with the Shanghai-headquartered electronics group SVA to include projects in Pakistan with Chinese companies in housing, infrastructure, power and mining.
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.
"I'm very excited because Ronnie was my idol when I first started playing snooker at the age of 10, " said Liu, who lost 5-1 to O'Sullivan at last season's China Open.
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