The number one hurdle to overcome when travelling around China is the language barrier.
Speculations of a Xiaomi set-top box have been swirling around China for some time.
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In 1970, around 20% of the population lived in urban centers around China.
That is something that Gymboree had in China for a while, through a franchisee before, through 200 centers around China.
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Now it has nearly a thousand stores around China and 300 designers producing more than 100 designs every day.
But he says he has received considerable support from other leading private businessmen around China, including letters from 30-40 big companies.
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The plant is one of more than 20 manufacturing facilities around China.
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The questions around China's rice represents an opportunity for other exporters, especially Vietnam, Pakistan and Thailand, which account for almost all rice imported by China.
Among his goals: bike around China, witness the Great Migration across the Serengeti in Africa, see the Northern Lights and explore the whole of Australia.
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Li Binlan chairs A. Best, a department store and supermarket chain based in Shenzhen with more than 100 locations around China that competes with the likes of Wal-Mart.
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The Wall Street Journal recently followed Michael Bonsignore, the chairman of Honeywell, on a typically gruelling 11-day business trip around China and Europe that few people would envy.
And, Ben, do you know anything about how the audience in Shanghai, of youth will be chosen, or anything about how you expect that to be broadcast around China, whether other people will get to see that town hall?
Regardless of all of the above, one thing you should always do when traveling around China is carry with you Chinese-language business cards of your hotel or of places you wish to visit so you can show passers-by, taxi drivers, bus conductors and the like.
It is still not too late for Home Depot to turn itself around in China.
The challenge is to turn around the China operations.
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Google may have posted slightly sluggish earnings this time around, but China's dominant search engine had a growth spurt.
Mr Sigg, who has travelled around much of China over the past quarter-century collecting its contemporary art, has yet to be convinced by all this talk of a boom in museums.
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Douglas Leone of Sequoia Capital, a big venture-capital firm, reckons that in emerging markets like China around 50% of start-ups backed by foreign venture capitalists in the internet and mobile sectors are copycats, and in markets like Brazil it is closer to 70%.
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The free-to-play game continues to gain steam around the globe, with an All-Star week in Shanghai, China that kicks off May 25 with the best players in five regions from around the world (North America, Europe, China, Korea and South East Asia) who were voted in by the community.
Expect more calls from around the world for China to allow its currency to rise.
General e-commerce growth in China is around 100 percent annually, for the last five years.
It is headquartered in China and orchestrates some 14, 000 factories in China and around the world.
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We regularly beat Bain and McKinsey for deals, helping boardrooms from around the world develop China strategies.
According to research firm BDA, China has around 220 million Internet users--nearly three times Germany's entire population.
Itochu will sell in China and around Asia through its 30% owned subsidiary Family Mart convenience store network.
Its share of the total population accounted for around 70 percent of China.
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While underlying inflation in China is around 2%, average annual salary increases for mid-level and senior managers are now 6-10%.
Investment and consumption each now account for around 50% of China's GDP.
Smartphone penetration was only around 15% in China in 2010, but with increasing demand for smartphones, we expect penetration to grow quickly.
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