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Continental delight proves hard to resist

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For Chinese looking to buy property overseas, Britain and the United States are the shop windows they have always looked in first, but prospective buyers are now increasingly casting their eyes in other directions.

City defies the slowdown

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While China's auto market has slowed drastically from its heydays of less than two years ago - it grew 45 percent in 2009 and 32 percent in 2010 - at least one city in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region has weathered the storm. Liuzhou, a landlocked city in South China, was once widely known for its Phoebe timber used to make coffins. As they used to say in the city, "born in Hangzhou, dine in Guangzhou, and die in Liuzhou". But the city, with a population of 3.75 million located approximately 250 km from the provincial capital of Nanning, has over the past decade resurrected its economy with its numerous factories producing cars, trucks, sport-utility vehicles and auto parts.

Going the extra yard

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Going overseas is no longer as easy as loading the products on a ship and selling them quickly in the Middle East or North Africa.

The open arms of Liuzhou

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In 2002, Christine O'Sullivan came to Shanghai for her first trip to China on a business trip for General Motors and "fell in love" with the country.

A real estate tale of two cities

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Paris looks to steal a march on London as the key target for chinese property investors

Power surge for placid lake

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Powerboat racing is revving up as a sport ready to make big waves in China.

Supply chain's missing links

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With domestic consumption at the forefront of China's economic future, Jim Tompkins says logistics companies need to sharpen their strategy when moving products from A to B.

Transformer challenge

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In China, Thomas Rabe, chief executive officer of German media giant Bertelsmann SE & Co KGaA, prefers to be called by his Chinese name Han Tao, which he says makes him feel more of a local.

No child too young

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For the first time, Mandarin is becoming widely available in the European curriculum with a more fun approach.

Novel approaches to learning Chinese

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Parents looking to give their children a head start when it comes to learning Chinese today have access to an unprecedented range of resources, including books, apps and podcasts.

Quotable

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"The image has significantly restrained Chinese companies' price negotiations and their overseas expansion."

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Pioneering school shows the way forward

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As any teacher will tell you, there are few tougher challenges in life than keeping your students awake first thing on a Monday morning.

Rural riches

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The story of Qingyanliu is not your simple rags-to-riches tale of how a Chinese village sped down the fast lane to economic success. It is a multifaceted story about collaboration and vision, of hard work and patience. More specifically, it is about how a neighboring city of booming trade markets helped a village smaller than one-third square kilometer to become one of the hottest incubators of e-commerce in Zhejiang province.

Venturing out

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After years of operating a website providing information on the small commodities markets in China, especially about the trade hub of Yiwu, Wu Hongbo decided last year to strike it out on his own.

Majoring in millionaires

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Among the many business schools in the world imparting little secrets about how to make money, there's one in Zhejiang province that may lay claim to being the most practical one.

New role models

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It may be some time before the catwalks of Shanghai and Beijing reach the showy heights of Paris or Milan, but with the country's increasing commercial power and influence, China's fashion models are grabbing a greater part of the international spotlight.

That outdoor feeling

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Immortalized in film, the drive-in movie theater is as American as Mickey Mouse and Superman.

New bosses, new challenges

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Western auto brands in China have seen several changes in top management toward the end of this year, but while most departing bosses are being hailed for their achievements, their successors are coming under pressure to reap similar rewards in a much tougher market environment.