Still, the mall has plans to boost the number of tenants, said Ye Ji Ning, head of New South China Mall's investment unit.

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Ye rounded off a sparkling day in the pool for China as she claimed the title with a breathtaking final lap of 28.93 seconds.

CNN: China celebrates first swimming golds and a world record

Ye Linfeng, a researcher with Cnbenefit, said that China's smaller banks, which typically started issuing wealth-management products later than the major banks, are trying to bolster their fee income out of concern that the central bank's efforts to liberalize interest rates will increasingly eat into the fixed margin between deposit and lending rates they have traditionally relied on to turn a profit.

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The action, loosely based on a true story and filmed on location at and near a Utah university (and, briefly, in China), concerns Liu Xing (Liu Ye), a brilliant young astrophysicist from Beijing who travels to the United States for graduate study under Professor Jacob Reiser (Aidan Quinn), a scientist whose work he admires but whose best years and ideas are behind him.

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Watson has been coaching in China for the last decade and has been working with Ye since he was nine, describing the teenager's potential as "limitless".

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Twenty minutes after Yang won China's maiden gold medal, 16-year-old Ye Shiwen triumphed in the women's 400m medley, as well as breaking the world record set in Beijing four years ago.

CNN: China celebrates first swimming golds and a world record