And a further 129 companies have beaten a path to Mr Zhang's door this year, begging to be allowed entry.
Buoyed by Obama, Quartet representatives and American and European officials have beaten a steady path to Netanyahu's door over the past several weeks.
The region currently occupied by Georgia was a well-beaten path for invading in armies in later centuries -- with Arab, Persian, Turkish and Mongol forces leaving their marks.
Over the past several months, Obama's Middle East envoy George Mitchell, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana and dozens of others have beaten a path to Assad's door.
When the chef Andy Ricker chose the location for the New York branch of Pok Pok, his Southeast Asian restaurant in Portland, Oregon, he went a bit off the beaten path, to the Columbia Street Waterfront.
Dunblane is a bit off tourists' beaten path, but it does receive some visitors.
This image was taken in Cairu, a town in Bahia state that is a bit off the tourist beaten path.
If you travel off the beaten path, a credit card may be almost useless because vendors will expect payment in cash.
Cultivating your instincts for seizing opportunities by living life a little bit off the beaten path will reap its rewards sooner than later.
But if you're looking for something off the beaten path, a good local music store can be worth its weight in gold -- especially if your odd tastes match the management's odd tastes.
Many, many times playing through the campaign I wished I could indulge my nagging curiosity, strike off the beaten path just for a moment, find some new approach.
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But when it comes to green, environmentally friendly tourism, staying slightly off the beaten path is not necessarily a bad thing.
You can rent the Airstream and just go where whim takes you, or have the company's partner, Montana-based adventure outfit Off the Beaten Path, map out a custom itinerary.
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Be it an off-the-beaten-path ribs joint in Memphis or a croissant quest in Paris, there's a measurable return to what's real -- those places and dishes that locals and travelers alike obsess over.
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Despite relatively easy access (the main park gate is just 60km south of the highway along a decent road), the Udzungwas remain very much off the beaten path, and hikers will often have trails to themselves.
Prune may be too informal, too small and too far off the beaten path for some, but its incomparable contemporary cooking catapults eaters into a state of gastronomic euphoria.
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Big city dwellers do the same thing only in reverse when they take a drive into the country to shop in a quaint little town in search of something unique to buy or an off-the-beaten path restaurant.
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