So while China's size will be a huge opportunity for Chinese people and the rest of the world as they consume more, it might not mean China and its customs will be copied all over the world, as has been the case for America over the past 50 years since it became so important.
It is also a source of pride and pleasure for the Chinese people and embodies important aspects of the country s intellectual and artistic heritage.
Now as more Chinese people travel for business and for pleasure, these types of hotels are becoming commonplace in modernized China.
Home Depot, an American DIY chain, is retreating from China after trying for years to persuade middle-class Chinese people to decorate their own homes.
The bond-market investigation, led by China's central bank and top securities regulator, focuses on a kind of transaction that could magnify trading risks for Chinese banks and brokerage firms, the people said.
But now, rising Chinese wages are creating opportunity for people from Bangladesh to Indonesia, and even Mexico and Honduras as they start to fill in the ranks of garment workers left vacant by Chinese people becoming service workers, such as auto mechanics, auto part sellers and car salesmen.
Even before news that Chinese students were among the casualties, Chinese people had mostly expressed sympathy for Boston and those injured in the attack, with many applauding the response by city authorities, regular citizens and the media.
Until recently, Chinese people had abundant reasons not to roam for pleasure.
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Ask the Chinese, Brazilians, these sorts of people, for a little loan to tide the continent over.
Funding has been poured into new community-health centres and training for doctors to staff them, and has enabled 172m more Chinese people to join subsidised insurance schemes.
Chinese people today look to popular culture instead of politics for their heroes.
"We're very confident the Chinese people will again give us their help and support for this decisive match, " Barcellos added.
For now, the path to Yes honors the rights of all Chinese people and celebrates the glories of China the nation.
While many have visited the sprawling Dragon Mart complex where low-cost Chinese goods are sold wholesale, an estimated 180, 000 Chinese people reside in the country, including senior figures for state-run banks who negotiate joint investment opportunities in Africa with Western companies.
In 1993, when I took a trip to Italy, people mistook me for Japanese, as there were very few Chinese traveling overseas then.
Making the environment even tougher, Chinese companies with global ambitions increasingly are looking for the same kind of people as those sought by major Western companies trying to expand in China.
Last year a tea made from the Chinese kombucha mushroom that was promoted as a remedy for cancer caused four people to be hospitalized for conditions ranging from jaundice to headaches and nausea.
One part of the plan called for shifting to saliva-based DNA samples obtained from mathematically gifted people, including Chinese who had participated in mathematics or science Olympiad training camps.
As Chinese New Year approaches on 10 February, people returning to their hometowns for the holidays are dreading "interrogations" by parents about their marital status and salaries, Xinhua reports.
The Chinese character for his name means vermilion, the color used on the gates of wealthy people's mansions in old China.
We asked destiny consultant Master Raymond Lo, an expert in reading the I-Ching, the ancient Chinese "Book of Changes, " which of the top sports people bound for Beijing would be successful at the Olympics.
The Chinese Ministry of Public Security (MPS) is continuing investigations which saw four people detained for suspected bribery in November.
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The Chinese, too, recognise that the uses of space do not, for the most part, require people to be up there.
For the study, researchers interviewed more than 100 people from the four biggest racial minorities in Northern Ireland: Chinese, Travellers, South Asians and Black Africans.
Taking care of parents is part of Chinese tradition but the country's one-child policy and the trend of people moving away for work have put strains on the traditional family structure.
China Mobile (nyse: CHL - news - people ), for instance, recently announced that it will build out its 3G networks in eight Chinese cities before the Olympics--an opportunity for IDT.
For this very reason, a sound China strategy may seem counter-intuitive to people who are not familiar with Chinese culture.
"When we first started, people said, straight up, you can't rap in Chinese, Chinese does not work for rap, " Johnston says.
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