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Crude awakening

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Until last year, China's steel makers had enjoyed at least a 10-year bonanza in producing and selling crude steel, founded on the country's rapid and overwhelming development.

Flower power

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Whether by good fortune or good management, the city of Zhangzhou seems to have realized that flowers, like eggs, should not all be put into one basket.

TCM grower takes a greener approach

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With traditional Chinese medicine experiencing a revival, herbal flowers have become hot commodities on the market.

A classy gentleman, and A money spinner

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Whoever decided to give the name narcissus to a flower that many of us call a daffodil obviously did not have a marketing degree.

The W makes its mark

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When the first W Hotel opened its doors in New York in 1998, a new iconic, hip hotel brand that would revolutionize the industry was born.

Changing of the guard

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Its wares have been witnessed by hundreds of millions around the world but few would probably know its name.

Lessons from the banking classroom

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The global financial crisis has given Chinese banks an opportunity to grab a larger share of the world's banking market, but to do so they need to improve their operating models and customer service, experts say.

The brand is full of beans

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Coffee industry veteran John Culver says he is very proud to be a pioneer in bringing the drinking culture of the beverage to this vast country with its 1.3 billion population and many thousands of years of tea-drinking history.

Pollution solutions

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China's efforts to assess the problem of smog hanging over Beijing and other cities has meant business for Western providers of specialized air-monitoring equipment, and this could pick up with efforts to clear the skies.

I can breathe clearly now

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Some enterprising companies ARE making the best of poor air quality

Energy drive

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Dave Shemmans, CEO of the British engineering consultancy Ricardo Plc, sees great opportunities in helping China's rapidly growing automotive manufacturers adopt low-emission and sustainable technologies.

Quotable

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"It is phenomenally difficult for Western economists and observers to gain insights into what goes on in the Chinese economy because China has achieved a level of economic growth that is unprecedented in world history."

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The long-distance kiss that put flowers on Net

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Zou Xiaofeng knows what it is like to be rejected. But like many other tales of rejection, this one has a happy ending.

Yingli hopes sun shines on market shift

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The world's biggest maker of silicon-based solar panels by capacity, Hebei province-based Yingli Green Energy Holding Co says it is planning to give more attention to emerging markets, including China, and less to Europe, its current largest source of business.

Shopping elsewhere

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As prices of luxury items remain prohibitive in China, affluent consumers rack up sprees abroad.

Old is the new new

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Buying, let alone carrying around, a second-hand purse may be unpopular in China, but the nation's obsession with luxury goods is driving its young nouveaux riches into bargain basements looking for brand-name bags on the cheap.

Quotable

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"China's exports this year will be no better than in previous years. In fact, they will be worse, as the European debt problems remain, and continuation of quantitative easing in the US remains a potential threat to China's shipments."

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