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...Additional reporting by Andy Lin in London...
...Xue Ce, a 28-year-old tech worker, was one of dozens who joined a block-long queue at a testing centre in the district....
...Profits are up at Xue Lin’s industrial adhesive company, but he does not want to expand capacity because of the outlook....
...“It’s too early to see profit for the giants,” said Chen Lin, assistant professor of marketing at the China-Europe International Business School in Shanghai....
...“Bluegogo’s failure represents the funding bubble collapsing [for shared bikes],” said Xue Yu, analyst at market research firm IDC....
...In December 2010, the death in custody of Xue Jinbo, a protest leader of the village of Wukan, sparked 11 days of demonstrations by thousands of villagers who were blockaded by local police....
...She gave her backing instead to a charismatic protest leader, Hong Ruichao, 27, who was duly elected in the run-off as a deputy to Lin Zuluan, 68, after he won the contest to be village chief....
...Additional reporting by Zhou Ping in Hong Kong and Zhao Xue in Beijing...
...Although they were at the forefront of December’s protests, they have ceded the provisional leadership of the village elections to the older generation led by Lin Zualan, 67....
...Nor has the body of Xue Jinbo, the villager who died in custody, been released for proper burial....
...“Even if we and all our buildings were made of steel they could blow us away with one breath,” said Lin Zuluan, a village elder and spokesman for Wukan....
...“Power plants promise industry regulators that they will generate power at full steam, but privately they don’t because of their financial losses,” explains Lin Boqiang, an energy economics expert at Xiamen...
...Nearly once a year, they have gathered together to celebrate a joint birthday or an adoption day – together with Maya O’Brien, the former Yang Xue, who could not join them on the homeland tour....
...“Our mainland tourists are crazy about our political talk shows,” says Steven Lin, a Taiwanese travel agent....
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