The Bank of China Group, which already has a secure online payment system for Visa cards, is developing another system for BOC's Great Wall card, as well as Visa and Mastercard.
QUIST-ARCTON: There's the Great Wall of China, Petra in Jordan, Christ the Redeemer - the Statue in Brazil - Machu Picchu in Peru, Chichen Itza in Mexico, the Coliseum in Rome and the Taj Mahal in India.
It's clear that the star of Wall Street's great defender is on the wane.
Also at the auto show, global automakers including Mercedes Benz and Nissan and local brands such as Geely Holding Group, which owns Sweden's Volvo Cars, and Great Wall Motors Co. showed new SUVs or SUV concept vehicles.
Rather than sacrifice economic growth by permitting local workers vacation time, he decided in the 1990s to bring the world to Huaxi in the form of knockoffs of the White House, Paris's Arc de Triomphe and the Great Wall.
Under Mr Bush, working for Goldman Sachs, the greatest of Wall Street's then-great investment banks, seemed in itself to be a qualification for high office.
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Carlson is arranging guided tours for visitors to Kodak's medical-imaging facility in the Olympic Village and the press center (where Kodak will process 5 million digital images), along with tickets to carefully selected Olympic events and perks like visits to the Great Wall and trips to Beijing's Silk Market.
Great Wall has become the Chinese industry's breakout success on the strength of its SUVs.
Such losses might make a great case study some day at Penn's famed Wall Street training ground, the Wharton School.
That gave Great Wall, at least temporarily, the global auto industry's fattest gross profit margin at 28 percent, according to Bernstein Research analyst Max Warburton.
"We are seeing a situation where Wall Street's rebounded but Main Street is still feeling the pain and there's a great deal of frustration and anger about that, " he said.
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