"These criteria are still quite critical for us," an foreign investor who declined to be named told China Daily. "To a large extent, only those among top 500 companies in the world can satisfy the provisions." Enditem
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Basic Article about China with one interesting quote for me: "These criteria are still quite critical for us," an foreign investor who declined to be named told China Daily. "To a large extent, only those among top 500 companies in the world can satisfy the provisions."
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China's economy might continue to decelerate as a result of slower industrial output growth and weakening overseas demand, according to a posting on the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) website
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These projects include new railway lines connecting Guiyang and Guangzhou, Lanzhou and Chongqing, Kashgar and Hotan in Xinjiang; highways between Wanyuan and Dazhou in Sichuan Province, Shuikou and Duyun in Guizhou Province; airport expansion projects in Chengdu, Chongqing and Xi'an. They also include the building of hydropower stations, coal mines, gas and oil transmission tube lines as well as public utilities projects in western regions.
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The tipping point at which the world's cleanest, most renewable resource is cost-competitive with other sources of energy on electricity grids could happen within two to five years in some US regions and countries if the price of fossil fuels continues to rise at its current pace, they add.
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China began the restructuring of its aviation industry by consolidating the two leading state-owned aircraft designers and producers.
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Brazil's President da Silva signed a decree that widens the scope of what can be classified as child labor in the country, including domestic work in the same category as slavery, sexual exploitation and drug trafficking. The president said the decree provided government inspectors with instruments to punish slavery.
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Shuttle Discovery astronauts said goodbye to the International Space Station crew Tuesday and ready to depart Wednesday ending a nine-day mission
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The European Union (EU) will double its investment between 2007 and 2010 to support European robotics research, the European Commission announced Tuesday.
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Meanwhile, it provides the latest market information for scrap metal, plastic scrap and waste paper every day; and updates on supply and demand including daily waste rubber, waste electronic/electric equipment, waste glass and waste leather.
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The demonstrators shouted anti-China slogans and appealed to police not to intervene in their demonstration. As Nepal officially considers Tibet a part of China, police said they would not let anyone stage such demonstrations here.
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"The international rating agency, Fitch, believes that neither this year's heavy snow nor strong earthquake will have much of a negative impact on China's economy..."
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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has described the orgy of violence perpetrated by the MDC-T as barbaric after he and First Lady Amai Grace Mugabe visited the homes of some victims of the opposition attacks
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