It used to be that bright young things straight out of Chinese universities would clamour for scarce jobs in the gleaming offices of the world's shiniest multinationals.

搁在过去，聪明能干的中国年轻人一出大学校门，就会去争抢世界最知名跨国公司明亮办公室里那几个稀少的职位。

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In proportion, with improvement made in China's design industry, those multinationals become aware that their products need to be tailored to the special taste of Chinese consumers.

随着中国公司在设计上的改进，跨国公司意识到，他们的产品需要专门针对中国消费者的品味进行“量身定做”了。

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Moreover, as the yuan strengthens against the dollar, some Chinese and US multinationals manufacturing there could shift production to lower cost countries, meaning the overall trade deficit would not be changed, the US China Business Council said.

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Employing first Chinese graduates of these colleges as liaison staff (and later Mandarin-speaking African college graduates), multinationals should sponsor Chinese faculty research in key areas like petroleum engineering, manufacturing operations and international commerce, and seek out talented students from Angola, Zambia, Congo and Sudan.

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If anything, the gap between these multinationals and their Chinese counterparts has widened, Mr Nolan says.

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