China has jewelry chains with a least 1000 outlets or more across China, according to the World Gold Council.
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If that happened to a country the size of China or India, it would double the number of infected people in the world by itself.
Solar power, on the other hand, is considered a clean technology in which China has openly sought world prominence, or dominance, using public markets in the West in the process.
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But some manufacturing company executives also argued that European industry was holding its own against both the old-world competition from the US and Japan and newer rivals from China or India.
The definition is fluid, but popular culture, language, film, music and mass media all certainly fit the bill, and China is making or at least trying to make inroads on all those fronts around the world.
China, within a year or two, will be the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, while India is also growing rapidly.
Guo is no novice to the international business world or to China.
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Yet I rarely listen to or read the opinions of people like me who are bullish on China's economy, like World Bank officials or Jim Rogers.
Ignoring China, or even just making decisions based on a view of the world that steadily grows more and more out-dated, is no longer an option.
But as Stephen King, the chief economist at HSBC, points out, that link seems to have gone, perhaps because of excess capacity at home, or because China's increasing presence in world trade pushes the prices of manufactured goods and labour down.
China was stocking all the copper it could get on world metals markets or from large producers like Freeport McMoran, FCX on the NYSE.
In China and most of the industrialised world, births and deaths are at or below replacement level (though America's population still rises because of immigration).
Drawing from international experience, the World Bank suggested that China could raise contribution rates, or use general revenues or dedicated social security taxes to cover contingent liabilities, in addition to direct transfers of state-owned assets.
It is true that the Bank's lending has become more focused on social sectors recently, and it is also true that the majority of the world's poor people live in countries such as China or Brazil, which do have access to capital markets.
But China has not sought to ease the Americans or Europeans out from their dominant roles in the World Bank and the IMF.
If a participant is based in France, but completes a module in China, Russia or Qatar, he or she will be able to build a network of peers around the world.
That means that of the 500m or so active Android phones in the world today, a quarter to a third are in China.
First, with growth nugatory or negative in the rich world, firms have come to depend on surging emerging markets, especially China, to keep expanding.
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UBS, argues that China is one of the most rapidly liberalising economies in the world, and is opening markets far more than India or Brazil.
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