According to DigiTimes, Gou said the program will give the engineers an environment to learn the Chinese language and first-hand experience in the manufacturing process.

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In the previous century, Jesuit missionaries had brought back the first substantial accounts of the Chinese language, and many philosophers were taken with the notion that its characters signified concepts rather than sounds, and that a single ideogram could have the same meaning to people all over East Asia, despite sounding completely different in each tongue.

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Mr Tang first came to public notice last year for remarks quoted by a regional Chinese-language magazine.

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The Chinese sports hero also topped all his countrymen to rank No. 1 on our first Forbes China Celebrity List, released today by Forbes China, the Chinese-language edition of Forbes magazine.

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First China because the Chinese didn't want us on their land how they took away our written language, and how they tried to turn us into slaves, and so we spoke our fears to our ancestors and made our way to Laos.

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