Given continued concerns about the strength of intellectual property enforcement in China, do these patents represent significant technological breakthroughs?

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But excessive monetary growth has contributed to the strength of shares and property.

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The property market's strength, though, has renewed concern that Beijing could further tighten policy to control prices.

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Both the sustainability of the current recovery, which has been occurring for more than a year in all property types, and future strength of the recovery, depends on the levels of corporate hiring and spending.

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Property-sector losses in Hong Kong were offset by strength for index heavyweight China Mobile, which ended up 0.5% after the world's biggest cellular service operator by subscribers reported a 5.2% increase in 2011 profit.

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The declining profitability of Hong Kong property is pushing local property developers to find new businesses - productive ways to use financial strength.

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