Ouyang says the aim of China's space program is clear: to advance the country's economic and scientific development.

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London also is collaborating with Hong Kong with the aim of offering China's companies something they can't get in Shanghai: an international listing.

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The astronauts are aiming to complete China's first manned docking with the Tiangong-1 module already in orbit, an important first step towards China's aim of creating a working space station by 2020.

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But for all of Disney's avowed aim to "correctly portray the images and customs" of China, how native can the production be?

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Meanwhile, China Life's Chairman Yang Chao says it also has plans to become a financial holding company and has been buying stakes in a number of China's banks and other financial institutions to further that aim (See story "Ready to Deal").

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But clearly the aim is to show the company is still committed to China, and that any store closures are part of a routine periodic business adjustment.

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London is one of those places getting in on the action with Silicon Roundabout, and even a China connection as entrepreneurs aim to tap faster growth.

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Look at what happened on Monday, when the Chinese government released new economic growth targets: Instead of expanding GDP by 10.4%, as it did two years ago, China will now aim for 7.5% growth this year.

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