Mr. Zhang said he expects the number to grow but declined to give targets.
Zhang says he's optimistic because the U.S. company's management approach differs from China's biggest homegrown chains'.
Zhang says he is conscious of avoiding the missteps of other Chinese companies operating overseas.
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Wells in Russia and Central Asia are already experiencing these same issues, and Zhang says he expects the Gulf will do so as well.
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Nomura Securities economist Zhiwei Zhang said he expects official PMI (released on November 1) to come in over 50 in October from 49.8 in September.
Mr. Zhang said he hadn't been allowed to see Ms. Feng in the hospital and was unable to reach her or her husband by phone on Friday.
Zhang said he mainly returned home to take care of his aging parents, but said he believed it would not be difficult to find jobs in the Chinese interior.
The qualification process has already seen the exit of 1991 world champion John Parrott, whose loss to China's Anda Zhang means he will drop out of the top 64, and a place on the main tour, next season.
Mr. Zhang said he is aware of how Japanese firms lost large sums on high-profile foreign investments such as Rockefeller Center and Pebble Beach Golf Course in the late 1980s and notes that the failures had to do the volatility of the yen and Japan's monetary policy.
In front of the school on Wednesday, as students exercised in their blue-and-white track-suit uniforms, 18-year-old Zhang Tianyu said he wasn't deterred.
Zhang told the paper he was given the bond in 1998 by his father.
If Zhang is convicted, he might face up to life in prison.
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But for drivers like Zhang, who says he can only afford a local brand now but may upgrade to an Audi SUV in the near future, owning car is about convenience and comfort.
Hollywood celebrity Christian Bale might be best known for Batman, but in China, director Zhang Yimou is hoping he becomes even better known in China as the American who brought the country an Oscar for the war dramaThe Flowers of War.
"Productivity Growth of the Non-Tradable Sectors in China", by Dong He, Wenlang Zhang, Gaofeng Han and Tommy Wu.
In 2008, Zhang began experimenting with prefab construction that he says makes for buildings that are cheaper to build and consume less concrete and water.
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"Whenever he is not sleeping or eating, he is working, " recalls Zhang, now at Harvard.
Hendry, without a ranking title since the 2005 Malta Cup, begins against 18-year-old Chinese prodigy Zhang Anda and the seven-time champion admits he is uncertain what awaits him.
Mr. Zhang's lighter sentence was also expected because prosecutors said he was an accomplice, and Ms. Gu the main culprit, according observers during the trial.
But his take-home pay has fallen by nearly a third and the thought that his brother may have to drop out of school so he can help the family gnaws at Mr. Zhang.
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Zhang Feng, 47, made his money in fuel distribution in Shanghai and decided he didn't want to spend the rest of his life in the business.
He is one ahead of two-time winner Miguel Angel Jimenez of Spain, China's Zhang Lian-wei and Swede Fredrik Andersson Hed, the top four all 40 years of age or older.
"He'll say what he has to say, but the truth is that we don't live in fear, " Zhang says.
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