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...In his free time, Pa often drops by the home of Huang Ting-sheng, the 42-year-old chief of another tribe in the village, who retired after 20 years in the marines....
...Xi has long asserted that the US is in decline, repeating the slogan “dong sheng, xi jiang” — the “east rises, the west falls”....
...“Now we’re seeing more people getting infected in rural areas,” said Huang....
...When I went to the vaccine clinic, they told me: ‘We can’t say what will happen, it would be better if you don’t get it,’” said a Beijing resident in her 60s surnamed Dong....
...But his high profile and influence over the country’s response to the pandemic mean the general population follows his advice, according to Huang....
...The pinky finger is missing, and in the palm of the hand is a passport-sized black-and-white photograph of a smiling little boy: Sheng in his childhood....
...“They are terrified by what happened in Wuhan and are really scared that it might happen again,” says Jin Dong-yan, a virologist with the University of Hong Kong, referring to the overwhelmed hospitals when...
...Huang Sheng, a prominent financial commentator in Guangdong with more than 5m followers across his platforms, was arrested and his WeChat and Weibo accounts appear to be inactive....
...Ant will also put up Rmb4bn ($625m) in registered capital for a 50 per cent stake in the business and its digital finance head Huang Hao will become the unit’s chair....
...Pinduoduo chair steps down, Baidu’s new listingColin Huang, the founder of highflying Chinese ecommerce group Pinduoduo, has unexpectedly quit his executive roles to explore “new, long-term opportunities...
...“Covid has the potential to significantly change how the world will see China’s vaccines,” said Jennifer Huang Bouey, an expert on China’s health policy at RAND, a California-based think-tank....
...“The domestic audience never really got into the so-called 'Chinese elements’," said Shanghai-based film critic Dong Ming....
...“What sells in China are big budget sci-fi and horror films — concept films,” as Ms Dong calls them. “They are a well-tried formula....
...So far, I’ve met alumni from Novo Nordisk, Maersk and Dong Energy, which has confirmed my belief that the alumni network is the most valuable part of the MBA experience....
...Lin Dong, an NGO worker who advised employees at Yue Yuen, became the first labour activist charged with using the internet to disturb social order under a recently revised Chinese law....
...But Huang Chao-His, chairman of the Bureau of Labor Funds, told FTfm the latest move to merge the investment functions of the funds should not be seen as a step towards setting up a sovereign wealth fund...
...Additional reporting by Emma Dong...
...If anything linked these works – other than texts by the Mainland writer Dong Fangfang referencing historic names and nicknames of Macau – it was a juxtaposition of traditional minzu, a distinctly Chinese...
...Mr Huang, 36, is now set to return to the small farming village he came from....
...Additional reporting by Emma Dong in Beijing...
...Additional reporting by Emma Dong. To comment, email magazineletters@ft.com...
...“In the last quarter of [2012], it is very likely that the Chinese economy will follow the trend seen in September – that is a modest recovery,” said Sheng Laiyun, spokesman for China’s national statistics...
...The ensemble employs pipa, dizi, erhu, gaohu and sheng as well as conventional western instruments....
...This car is called the Chinese economy,” Mr Dong says....
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