Paper has had a good run of about 1260 years, since the Abbasids first stole the secret from the Chinese and spread it around the world after the Battle of Talas in 751 AD.
Shell said on Tuesday that the company has received approval from the Chinese government for its first shale gas production-sharing contract in China.
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Bank credit extension in the first quarter of this year has slowed, accounting for just under 5% of GDP in the first for loans in Chinese yuan, down from 6.5% of GDP in the first quarter 2010.
Even though the Fifth Generation was one of the first groups of Chinese directors discovered by the West, it was far from the first to make impressive contributions.
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Borrowing the first two letters from the Chinese characters of the word "dream, " or "meng xiang, " the MX is a dream phone in all its senses.
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The first of what will be 60 or 70 Chinese from mainland companies have just set up in the St John's Innovation Centre: some to network, some looking for suppliers, some for joint ventures, some no doubt for customers, and all learning.
As a matter of fact, they already launched that aircraft carrier we bought them, along with a Tiangong-1 rocket that lifted the first module of a planned Chinese space station to orbit from a launch site in the Jiuquan, Gansu province.
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This is the highest ever sales figure recorded for the first half of the year, buoyed by continued retail demand from the Indian and Chinese consumer markets and stronger than expected demand in America, De Beers said in its earnings report.
The move comes nearly three months after the EU first began floating the idea pursuing action against what they were calling dumping from artificially priced Chinese panels.
Now he is promoting another controversial plan, for the development, first mooted before the handover from Britain, of three new towns near the border with the exploding Chinese city of Shenzhen.
The first candidate to sit down at the dark-stained conference table was a Chinese-American, from Washington state, named Andrew Hsu.
At Credit Suisse First Boston the Chinese wall separating investment bankers from analysts was straddled by a single boss, Frank Quattrone.
His fascination was first sparked by reading Arthur Waley's translations from the Chinese at school.
It was the first time that Chinese students had participated, and children from Shanghai ranked first in every single area.
Suning is among a number of big Chinese retailers reporting sharply lower profits in the first half of 2013 from a year earlier.
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Researchers in the present study analyzed survey responses from 215 employees of Chinese oil and gas companies, first to establish whether a strong correlation exists between workplace ostracism and increased psychological stress.
In the first tier of sanctions, Chinese nationals and state-owned enterprises would be barred from securing U.S. bank loans or floating bond offerings on the U.S. debt market.
The Chinese search and rescue team, the first such mission ever accepted by Japan from China, arrived in Tokyo on Sunday and will join similar groups from dozens of countries in a search for survivors in the worst affected areas.
First, eBay failed to recognize that the Chinese market and the business environment are very different from that of the West.
Founded in 1958 by Robert Welch, a candy manufacturer from Massachusetts, the society took its name from a Baptist missionary and military-intelligence officer killed by Communist Chinese forces in 1945, whom Welch called the first American casualty of the Cold War.
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