Ensuring that there are more even rates of growth across the country has become the mantra of a new leadership that wants to strengthen its legitimacy by appearing to be in sympathy with those who live in the other China.

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Would there, in a such a situation, be no cause for sympathy with us?

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Sir Mervyn, who will be succeeded in July by Mark Carney, said he had much sympathy with regulators trying to manage the banking system both before, and after, the financial crisis.

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