For example, a quarter of Chinese shoppers seek products online because they are not available at physical stores.
By contrast, one quarter of Chinese homebuyers pay cash, and the average mortgage covers only 50% of a property's value.
In this past quarter, Chinese airline EVA has also deployed iPad for pilots and crew for flight manuals, documentation and training.
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Because the simple fact is that the top one quarter of Chinese society is in an increasingly strong position to simply outbid Americans for the available supply of oil.
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The simple fact is that the bottom half of American income earners are losing oil consuming power to the top quarter of Chinese income earners and the top one tenth of Indian income earners.
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Our economy is three times the size of the Chinese economy, with a quarter of its people.
Others are expecting a pick-up in Chinese demand over the second quarter and there seems to be some evidence to support this given a recent uptick in spot orders, but the impact on pricing remains unclear.
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Checks with value chain suppliers indicate China Telecom should be ready to debut a CDMA iPhone 4S as soon as February 2012, even though the launch could be delayed to mid-2012, read the note released Monday, dispelling rumors that a CDMA iPhone could rock the Chinese market in the fourth quarter.
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What matters more than a difference of a few tenths of a percentage point in growth from quarter to quarter is whether Chinese leaders are allowing the private sector to flourish by reducing the role of state industry in the economy, said Ben Simpfendorfer, managing director of Silk Road Associates, a consulting firm in Hong Kong.
But nobody expected the Chinese tourism decline in the last quarter of 2010.
Barclays Capital said this week in a note to clients that it expects that the Chinese economy is bottoming out this quarter, with GDP growth of under 8 percent before rising above that in the third and fourth quarter.
Chinese sales powered ahead by 36% quarter on quarter, while Asia Pacific sales also grew by 10% in three months.
Both pairs were already through to the quarter-finals and the Chinese duo later said they were saving energy for the knockout stages.
Sure, Baidu has numerical supremacy: One study gave it 37% of Chinese searches in 2005's second quarter, as compared with 23% for Schmidt's firm.
About a quarter of workers in nine Chinese provinces surveyed by the central bank said they expected at least a 10 percent pay increase this year, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported in March.
Barclays Capital has been saying the Chinese economy would bottom in the second quarter, and as China heads into the third quarter this week, Barclays says it sees some green shoots sprouting up in the cracked earth.
To raise the most worrying example, Chinese exports are down by more than a quarter from a year ago.
The number of Chinese visitors to Dandong has fallen to a quarter of what it was in the peak years.
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Chinese growth started to slow in the first quarter of this year.
Just as expanding the global labour force by a quarter through the addition of cheap Chinese workers helped to keep prices down in the West, so higher Chinese wages might start to export inflation.
Sohu shares are trading lower after the Chinese Internet company offered disappointing guidance for the second quarter.
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The four largest Chinese banks had apparently managed risk carefully in the quarter.
While foreign films accounted for only a quarter of the 303 movies screened in Chinese theaters last year, they took in over half of overall ticket sales.
In the last 11 days of January, says Dingledine, a quarter of a million copies of the Chinese-language version of Tor were downloaded from the Tor Web site.
While still a small portion of trade settlements, it has had some success, the use of the Chinese yuan in global settlements tripling in the third quarter of this year.
Last week, Beijing's National Bureau of Statistics announced that the Chinese economy grew 6.8% in the fourth quarter of last year.
The reason, she says, is that the wireless policies that were established by the Chinese government will have been heavily enforced during the fourth quarter of last year and the first quarter of this year.
In the second quarter of 2010, according to Analysys International, Chinese mobile users chose Baidu first for mobile queries (34.3%).
Analysts at the Japanese bank expect Chinese GDP to hit 7.7% in the third quarter and then rebound strongly to 8.8% in the fourth.
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