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...Yang Kai, a friend of Gao’s, is from Maotai township, the town where China’s famous liquor is made. His family are also distillers, but Yang said he does not want to start his own distillery....
...The masters of the universe have continued to receive billions of dollars of Chinese state money, DD’s Will Louch and Kaye Wiggins and the FT’s Yuan Yang report, even as geopolitical tensions have broken...
...The IMF expects China’s economy to grow 3.2 per cent this year, while the World Bank expects 2.8 per cent, far below the country’s official target of 5.5 per cent, and less than a third of the rate a decade...
...In January 2020, Beijing told biosafety laboratories working on Sars-Cov-2 samples that they needed government clearance to release any information about the virus....
...As a result, official data show that just 2.1m adults had claimed unemployment insurance by the end of June, down from 2.3m a year earlier, despite the pandemic....
...Bao Jun, an analyst at market research firm iResearch, said: “The whole bike-sharing industry has weakened. Across the economy, investors are more cautious.”...
...Yang Huiyan, $22bn The wealthiest woman in China, Ms Yang inherited a stake in property developer Country Garden from her father....
...The eight-year old company, which is now valued at $55.7bn, made Rmb14.6bn ($2.1bn) in the three months to the end of June, compared with a loss of Rmb7bn in the previous three months....
...Chinese technology group Xiaomi has blamed the US-China trade war in part for its lacklustre debut after its shares fell 1.2 per cent below their opening price by the end of its first day of trading in Hong...
...Yang in Beijing....
...LeShi had debts of almost Rmb19bn ($2.7bn) as of end-March. Mr Jia is being replaced as LeShi chief executive by LeShi president Liang Jun, a former executive at Lenovo....
...This had resulted in a 2 percentage point cut in profit margins to 3 per cent, said Dayang president Yang Xiaoping....
...Zhang Jun, a former electrician at the Walmart store in Yantai City, Shandong, was one of several workers who set up the first Walmart Chinese Workers’ Association WeChat group....
...At one stage Hanergy Thin Film purchased a stake in “397”, which was by then called Jun Yang Solar, before going on to sell the shares at a loss....
...Additional reporting by Tae-jun Kang...
...Another co-founder, Yang Huanming, also studied abroad, receiving his PhD at the University of Copenhagen. China has a number of advantages in the field of genomics....
...On his way home from Nelson Mandela’s memorial service in December, Ernest Bai Koroma, the president of Sierra Leone, stopped off in Angola to discuss an investment in his war-scarred nation....
...Zhou Jun Jie, general manager, says TCM is growing just as rapidly as the fast-expanding Chinese market for western pharmaceuticals – at about 20 per cent per year....
...Baidu’s shares quickly soared to levels that gave it a p/e ratio of more than 2,000....
...The news did not bode well for the sector as a whole, said Yang Jun-won, a fund manager at Macquarie-IMM Investment Management. ?...
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