There is no sign that the Yangtze or Pearl River deltas, or the Beijing-Tianjin corridor further north, are running out of steam.

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On the Beijing-Tianjin line, for instance, there are 50, 000 passengers a day, or a little more than 18 million a year, a figure not even half the forecasted 38 million.

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Once part of Sichuan province, it was carved off in 1997 to become what Beijing calls a provincial-level city, joining Beijing, Shanghai, and Tianjin in that category.

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The most affected areas will be the provincial-level cities of Beijing, Shanghai, and Tianjin plus Hebei, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang provinces.

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Foreign firms should establish long-term interaction with leading Chinese faculty at Chinese universities, from top-rated Beijing University to Tsinghua to Fudan (in Shanghai) to other colleges in Tianjin, Dalian, Nanjing, Wuhan, Xiamen and Guangdong.

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On 30 October, the cube-shaped St Regis Tianjin opens on the banks of the Hai River in this city 110km southeast of Beijing.

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