In June 2003, China Life formally split into the parent, called China Life Insurance (Group) Co.

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The second step would be for the PBC to perform dollar-for-yuan foreign exchange reserve swaps with African central banks, with China offering to split the seigniorage (the difference between the face value of currency and the cost to produce it) with the African nations as a form of foreign aid.

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David Su (the D in the TDF trio) split in 2008 to join Matrix Partners China as a managing partner.

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The restructuring split the feed-distribution business in China between the newly formed East Hope Group, owned by Liu Yongxing, and the South Hope Group, controlled by Liu Yonghao.

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The plans follow the announcement late last year that China Telecom, long the dominant supplier, is to be split into two from the 12 February.

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In 1999 People's Insurance was split into four independent units, one of which focused on life insurance and was named China Life.

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The split with other central banks is not an ideological rift so much as an acknowledgment of China's very different economic reality, where even a moderate policy loosening last year led to a sharp rise in credit issuance, a pick-up in growth and, lately, the threat of inflation.

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