Ms. Yuan said U.S. Embassy officials were nearby at the airport.
In the first 11 months of 2012, the 80 major steel makers posted a loss of 1.97 billion yuan, said Wang Qinghai, chairman of the association, during a meeting this weekend.
Greenland Group, which recorded domestic property sales totaling 105.1 billion yuan in 2012, said it expects to make more than 2 billion yuan in revenue this year from its overseas projects.
Mr. Lee said yuan bond issuance outside of China in 2013 could top last year's 170 billion yuan, and even reach 200 billion yuan.
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Back in 2005, Chuck Schumer said the yuan was 27.5% undervalued, and he demanded a revaluation.
Meanwhile, China's central bank chief Zhou Xiaochuan said the yuan - which is currently tied to a narrow band against the dollar - would see its flexibility increased.
Before the crisis, when these reformers talked about a carving a bigger global role for the yuan, they were said to be caving in to US pressure to revalue.
Helped by the yuan's strong value, the issuance of offshore yuan bonds so far this year has exceeded 140 billion yuan, Mr. Lee said.
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"Mom had a stroke last year, and the hospital charged 18, 000 yuan, but we could claim back only 1, 000 yuan from insurance, " said Mr. Luo, the Chongqing umbrella seller.
The company said on Monday that overall profits, however, declined to 4.45 billion yuan, down 55 million yuan from the same period last year, the company said in an annual report.
But it would also facilitate growth of a market for yuan trade finance, Mr. Chan said.
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Southeast Asia's largest bank by assets, said it plans to issue yuan-denominated bonds that will be cleared in Singapore.
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When China said in June that the yuan would be allowed more flexibility, it looked like a victory for Mr Geithner.
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The article said that around 682 billion yuan in new bank loans were issued in April and volume rose to 793.2 billion yuan in May.
He said he expected the investments conducted in yuan could help companies hedge risks brought by currency fluctuations.
In a speech in Beijing, Li Daokui said China "will not appreciate the yuan solely because of external pressure".
He said China alone would decide where the yuan goes from here.
Meanwhile, the value of land sales in 130 Chinese cities fell 13% in 2011 to 1.86 trillion yuan, with residential land sales plunging 24% to 1.24 trillion yuan last year, China Real Estate Index System said in a separate note earlier.
In January Alibaba said it would invest up to 30 billion yuan in new warehouses.
"If they didn't buy increased levels of German or French debt, the yuan is likely to appreciate faster than otherwise, " said Randolph.
"If you are looking for a support level for the onshore yuan, just look at the offshore market, " said a Shanghai-based trader with a foreign bank.
Ms. Chen was sentenced on Tuesday to six years in prison and more than three million yuan in fines, the attorney involved in the case said.
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That said, change will surely come slowly for the yuan, as China has made clear.
China said that it would be interested in including the yuan in the basket.
Chinese officials have said publicly that they will not push down the yuan, and their currency has risen in trade-weighted terms.
The Chinese government said it will gradually increase the value of the yuan compared to the US dollar over the next several years.
Barclays said that it any correction in the dollar vs yuan would mostly affect Asian currencies, pushing them higher against the dollar short term.
Yet, while central banks in Europe and politicians in Washington ask for a stronger yuan, the market consensus is that China is doing what it said it would do.
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