With widespread homeownership in China, real estate values are a key measure of consumer spending power.

由于中国个人购买住房的现象非常普遍，房地产价值成为衡量消费者支出能力的重要指标。

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Walmart began sniffing around South Africa three years ago, seeking a toehold on a continent where consumer spending power has risen sharply in the past decade.

于是三年前沃尔玛开始转向南非，搜寻商机，企望在这个十年间消费能力猛涨的地方找到立足之地。

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Every entrepreneur or multinational has an Angle on how to tap into the emerging consumer's new spending power, and investors have been pouring into consumer stocks.

关于如何利用新兴消费者新近获得的消费能力，每个企业家或跨国公司都有着自己的视角，投资者一直源源不断地涌入消费股。

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If its currency weakens for once, consumer spending power could shrink, in theory, and that could help inflation there, too.

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The spread of consumer spending power across China means that a company must constantly expand its geographic footprint--but the requirements of scale make it extremely critical to cluster locations appropriately to ensure competitive scale economies.

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Temporary factors, including the damping effect of higher food and energy prices on consumer purchasing power and spending as well as supply chain disruptions associated with the tragic events in Japan, appear to account for only some of the recent weakness in economic activity.

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