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Roads improving rural lives
and Research Institute’s (IFPRI) report titled Road Development, Economic Growth ... and Poverty Reduction in China, Research Report 138, Washington, DC: ... August 28, 2007 By Lawrence Gu ON AN AVERAGE DAY in China last year ...
KFC- the birthday palace
is China's largest restaurant chain. According to Research Frontiers, ... Of those 28 countries, China fell in the top five. Xinhua news service quotes ... diet structure and lifestyle, as well as China’s rapid economic growth ...
Education and Government Efforts
to the China Youth and Children Research Center, 87% of the students spend ... is a small portion of the gross domestic product. China did not reach its 4% goal in 2004. Source: “Higher Education in China—An Overview,” Asian ...
Winning market share through Taiwan design and China production
Research In China, “ China Laptop Industry Report, 2006-2007,” March 2007. ... Dominance in laptop production is just one area where Taiwan, China, and Hong ... growth. We’ve added observations about the firms’ China, Taiwan, and Hong ...
Young people volunteer to "Go West"
“Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Regional Inequality in China,” Working ... ON AN AVERAGE DAY IN CHINA 27 recent university grads are selected to be sent to work strengthening China’s poorer western provinces. 60,000 applied ...
China's skies increasingly crowded with passenger jets
and Economics, “China’s Air Passenger Transport: An Analysis of Recent Trends”, ... 679,500 people traveled by air in China, fewer than half the daily number ... million). By 2010, there were 175 civil transport airports in China according ...
Dirty air takes lives
August 3, 2007 By Clayton Dube ON AN AVERAGE DAY IN CHINA outdoor ... This is the conservative estimate of World Bank researchers utilizing surveys collected ... that air pollution costs China between one and four percent of gross domestic ...
China leads in coal production and consumption
June 16, 2007 ON AN AVERAGE DAY IN CHINA more than 6 million tons ... a day), Europe, and Russia combined. This production is essential to China’s economic rise, providing almost 70% of the nation’s energy. And demand ...
Pork consumption in China
June 18, 2007 By Pou In Kuan ON AN AVERAGE DAY in China ... Chinese ate about 621,951,219 pigs. Each of China’s 1.3 billion people ... 26.5% (MacDonald). Meat consumption has risen dramatically in China over ...
What are China's largest and richest cities?
and economic data for China's most productive cities shows that the common ... January 8, 2008 By Clayton Dube ON AN AVERAGE DAY in China, 13.46 ... China's second and third largest cities, using this framework are Beijing ...