In the whole of China, only 40, 000 merchants are equipped to swipe a credit card.
Asia remains an underweight as a whole, though China, Thailand and South Korea as individual nation are definitely an overweight based on price valuations, among other measures.
Meanwhile, on the demand side, the world as a whole, and China in particular, has been growing much faster than expected and consuming lots of raw materials as it does so.
Sun-Bae Kim of Goldman Sachs, an investment bank, points out that investment rates in emerging Asia as a whole, including China, look much healthier than in the region outside China (see chart 11).
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But although our exports of goods to China rose significantly during most of the 1990's, they grew no faster than such exports to the world as a whole, and China still accounts for less than 2 percent of the total.
The whole world benefits, the United States benefits, and China as a whole benefits.
After a market trial two years ago with one phone in China, the company introduced a whole lineup of phones last year in China, and in the past few months has started selling phones in Russia, India, Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
Bai is aiming to be around for the whole weekend at the China Open.
We also offer products with more whole grains, such as our Triscuit crackers here in the U.S. and the first whole grain biscuits in China.
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Under a law passed in 2003, foreign universities were permitted to set up campuses, or whole universities, inside China, if they partnered with a local body.
With my engineer, Manoli Wetherell, and help from my NPR colleague Robert Smith, we decided to see where you would have to go on this planet to be able to dig a whole straight through to China.
But it is also the case that we are continuing to pursue our broad agenda with China on a whole range of issues.
Indeed, better than average wages for China as a whole.
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According to the IMF, there does not appear to be significant over-valuation of residential real estate prices in China as a whole, though there are signs of overvaluation in some market segments.
In the first half of this year, Shantou's economic growth has been 2%, compared with more than 20% over the same period last year (and a target of 8% for China as a whole this year).
While we still aspire to be these things, the truth of the matter is that Brazil, India, China and a whole host of smaller countries are doing a much better job than we are at expanding, building and creating.
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It is offering a way to reach a whole new spectrum of consumers in China who want their products.
Aside from the infrastructure, which Japan simply transferred to China once the in-kind payment in resources had been made, China also got a whole lot of know-how.
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And my general view is that there can be a friendly and constructive competition between the United States and China, and a whole range of areas where we share common interests and we should be able to cooperate.
By 2040 there will be as many people with dementia in China alone as in the whole of the developed world put together.
Now, China, Korea, a whole bunch of Asian nations would love to import some high-value-added, high-tech stuff that could create huge numbers of jobs here in the United States.
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As is the case with a country like China, we have a whole host of bilateral issues that we deal with countries on, as we did in the recent trip.
Some pilots, however, may soon have to brush up on their customary airborne banter--they'll more likely be pointing out whole continents or even the Great Wall of China.
It would be nice, too, if small companies were in better shape, the yen not so strong, consumer demand more brisk, companies less concerned with paying off debt, and the whole economy not so dependent on exports to China.
China's stability and development are in the interest of China and in the interest of the whole world.
The whole of the North, along with parts of China and Japan, will be within South Korea's new 800km range.
On Monday, the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) forecast growth of between 8% and 9% for the whole year, putting Singapore on a par with China, the fastest growing economy in Asia.
Not long ago China and Russia wanted to put off the whole process.
The other challenge is that in China, each publisher tries to provide a whole funnel scenario, trying to capture all adspend, even when that is not the most effective solution.
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