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...According to a 2015 speech by NDRC official Xu Lin, the government sought research from the OECD, the Asian Development Bank and “the famous American consulting firm McKinsey”, so as to “absorb a wide range...
...Additional reporting by Arjun Neil Alim and Maiqi Ding in Beijing and Andy Lin in Hong Kong...
...“It’s certainly surreal,” said Tony Xu, chief executive of DoorDash, whose stake is now valued at more than $2.7bn....
...Xu Hongjie, another Yiwu factory owner who also made Trump banners for the 2016 campaign, said his profits are thinning....
...Mr Xu had also called on Mr Xi to resign....
...Mr Xu now counts several of Silicon Valley’s most respected investors among his backers, including Alfred Lin of Sequoia Capital, who contributed to DoorDash’s Series A round in 2014, along with Keith Rabois...
...Mr Xu put on a brave face, saying the US block was “only having a short term impact” on Hikvision, and many vendors said Chinese companies were increasingly reliant on HiSilicon, Huawei’s wholly owned semiconductor...
...“Without a doubt, it has more computing power than any other AI processor in the world,” said Mr Xu....
...One result was that a wave of art students went to Paris and absorbed the influence of western art, among them Sanyu, Xu Beihong, Lin Fengmian, and Yan Wenliang — all artists whose work now figures in Shih...
...“Now is the time for us to act,” added Maj Gen Xu, who was dressed in military fatigues. “A big problem for us in the past is that we emphasised ‘two systems’ too much....
...His own collection includes Chinese and Taiwanese artists such as Sanyu, Lin Fengmian, Xu Beijong, Yan Wenliang, Liu Haisu, Chen Cheng-Po, Liao Chi-Chun, Chang Shuhong and many more....
...As well as a cable car ride up to the Big Buddha and Po Lin monastery on Lantau Island the next day, the weekend also provided time to read....
...“Beneath every city's gleaming surface lies the darker conditions of migrant workers,” said Xu Lin, the urban development director at China’s top policy planning body, at a summit last week....
...That investigation led the authorities to Gen Xu Caihou, who was detained in 2014 and Gen Guo Boxiong, arrested the following year....
...“The subject of alliances is the subject of many misconceptions by the government and the public,” says Xu Jin, a professor of international relations at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences....
...Lu Wei will leave his post as head of the Cyberspace Administration to be succeeded by his deputy Xu Lin, former minister of propaganda for Shanghai who joined the agency in 2015....
...Additional reporting by Luna Lin and Wan Li...
...Ms Xu says that a few years ago, 5 to 10 per cent of her sales were paid this way, but that has now risen to 20 to 30 per cent. Most cannot be cashed for 90 or 180 days....
...Xu Bing, vice-chairman of the Canton Fair, said that despite the stabilisation, the outlook for global demand was still “weak”, with China’s factories facing an “uncertain and unstable” future....
...“Exports are not good and the domestic market is also bad,” says Mr Xu, throwing his hands up in resignation....
...On Thursday it was the Lin Yi, a guided missile frigate, which spent 75 minutes moored in war-torn Yemen’s port of Aden before setting off to Djibouti with 225 evacuees....
...International oil assets purchased when the market was at historic highs are now proving hard to digest, Ms Xu said....
...Lin Bin, Xiaomi’s president, has previously outlined a target for the company to generate equal revenues from hardware and services – today the former supplies 94 per cent....
...“Around 80 per cent of foreign investment to Wenzhou actually comes from Chinese living overseas,” Ms Xu says....
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