What is known of the economic impact in China is that five-star hotels in Beijing are registering occupancy rates of around 20%.
Bryant is by far the most popular NBA player in China where he is revered for his five championship titles and acrobatic play during his 15-year career.
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Shimao Group is building five-star hotels that will bear the names of big chains and is boosting China sales through overseas sales partners.
The deal is part of a five-year plan by China to get more people using open source software.
The company is betting that its Five Star subsidiary can make China the retailer's largest overseas market, one that could rival U.S. operations.
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Ford plans to introduce 15 new models in China by 2015, and is building five new manufacturing facilities and bringing its Lincoln luxury brand there in 2014.
This is important because the five-year plan estimates that China will need to create 45 million new jobs over the next five years, a staggering 10 million new jobs each and every year.
On the agenda is a new five-year economic plan meant to help China wean itself off investment and exports and rely more on consumption to drive growth.
There is no doubt that China has done well over the last five years.
General e-commerce growth in China is around 100 percent annually, for the last five years.
What they discovered is that China, India and Brazil make up three of the top five market opportunities.
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Gotabaya Rajapaksa, another sibling, who is the defence secretary, has noted that the president has visited China five times in office and three times before.
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Tourism from China to the U.S. is also substantially higher today than five years ago.
Ironically Chavez understands that, which is why the vast bulk of his hydrocarbon investment over that past five years has all come from China.
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China Life, Ping An and China Pacific, the first-, second- and fourth-largest life insurers in China, respectively, are already publicly traded, and Taiking Life, number five, is expected to have an initial public offering within the next 12 months.
The Copenhagen Accord is based on a proposal tabled on Friday by a US-led group of five nations - including China, India, Brazil and South Africa.
WRI, an independent, non-partisan environmental research organization, is working with China to calculate its greenhouse emissions as a key part of its next national Five-Year Plan to advance its economy.
Among the challenges to getting an effective arms trade treaty is the simple fact that the USA, Russia, China, the UK and France are the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.
Mr. Wang also declined to offer specifics on Mr. Buffett's appearance, including whether it would also appear on the Spring Festival television special, a four- to five-hour series of songs and skits produced by the state broadcaster that is watched by 700 million people in China and might be the world's most-viewed TV show.
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