Gou Fei, a recently trained kindergarten teacher, visited West China to see whether she could help.
Earlier this year 16 women in a village in Guangxi Province in south west China divorced their husbands.
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More than 260 of the injured were taken to the city's West China Hospital, where 202 remained as of Tuesday.
Under an ambitious scheme, it could be developed to take goods by road and rail between Gwadar and south-west China.
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Sichuan Shuangma Cement Co. jumped 10.1% in Shenzhen, while in Hong Kong, West China Cement climbed 5.1% and China National Building Material Co.
According to the University, the total income of the top 20 percent of the rural households was 10.19 times higher than the bottom 20 percent and that the wealth gap in west China was bigger than in the east of the country.
The agreement provides for the construction of a three-thousand-kilometre pipeline from Kazakstan to the west of China.
"The first was when low cost manufacturing shifted from the west to China, Malaysia and so on, " he explains.
Afghanistan is bordered by Pakistan on the east and south, Iran on the west, China on the northeast, and Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan on the north.
She finds parallels too in how the West sees China.
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The broader message behind this point-scoring may have been that the West needs China's help in calming North Korea and in other trouble spots (such as Myanmar, see article), and that such help comes at a price, even where it appears to be in China's own self-interest.
In my book The Chinese Dream, I urge people in the West to see the differences between China and the West as complementary rather than contradictory.
Where once the West relied on China's lack of environmental enforcement to tamp down rare-earth prices and implicitly subsidize high-tech goods, in the future the nature of the subsidy will change so that China's cheap(er) labor will subsidize Western mid-tech goods.
For most Chinese companies, the domestic market is already so big and dynamic, the additional revenues offered by investing in smaller markets in the Gulf fail to justify the difficulty of operating there, according to Ben Simpfendorfer, an economist and author of The New Silk Road: How a Rising Arab World is Turning Away from the West and Rediscovering China.
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The gold mavens of the west have nothing on China, 1.3 billion strong.
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Then in 1978, in a move almost unnoticed in the west, Japan and China signed a treaty of friendship.
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This isn't a story of the West losing out to China, because both will continue to profit in Africa.
The big question is whether this crude will flow south to U.S. refineries, or west for export to China.
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Mr Schwarzman said he hoped to foster "a win-win relationship of mutual respect" between China and the West.
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Company name refers to high-quality white porcelain that was exported from China to the West in the 18th century.
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And both China and the West should be offering the North's bureaucrats and students every possibility to visit or study abroad.
Well, now China's west and midwest are starting to catch up.
It is my hope that it will not only serve as a bridge between China and the West, but also start an important conversation about the Chinese Dream.
Chang Mai straddles one of Asia's great crossroads - a southern spur of the Silk Road - fusing commerce and culture between points farther north and west in modern-day China, Laos and Myanmar.
"China's economy is growing at three times the rate of the West, and if that growth continues, China will become the largest economy in the world within the next couple of decades, " Mr Schwarzman said in a statement ahead of the funds launch on Sunday.
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After China's re-entry into the international arena, it was hoped that a Chinese writer could one day win acclaim both in China and in the West.
And if the core economies of the West do worse than expected, China policy makers will have to act faster than they have so far at lowering interest rates or providing stimulus where needed unless China slip into even lower growth.
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