Covered by a quilt despite the summer weather, Zhao has an IV in her arm and is too tired to speak.

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According to Zhao Qingming, an economist at China Construction Bank, international capital will flow back to emerging nations such as China this year.

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Zhao Qingchao, an official with the local government in Langfang City where the market is located, told Xinhua that they have taken steps to detect the source of the deadly virus.

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"In less than a decade, we constructed more high-speed rail lines than what it took Japan and Europe 40 years to build, " said Zhao Jian, an economics professor at Beijing Jiaotong University and one of the country's leading experts on rail transportation.

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For Zhao a crucial turning point came in 1997, when he met the late jazz vocal legend Betty Carter at an international jazz festival in Shanghai.

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