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...cliché that sport imitates life is a stretch. But sport does reveal what makes a winner. Above everything else - talent, training, luck - it's tenacity, like that shown at the Australian Open by tennis players Li Na and Zheng Jie. They made history by being the first Chinese, indeed the first Asians, to take half the semifinal places in a Grand Slam singles event. It was irrelevant whether the two would progress further in the tournament - their feat was already a huge achievement in a game long dominated by the West. Now the smart money is on China displaying...
...today, Xi'an is experiencing a renaissance. The locals who frequent Zhu's store have cash - and they're spending it like never before. On a recent Wednesday in late October, hospital worker Hao Jie, 40, is gleeful after dropping $1,200 on a 52-inch LCD TV for her new apartment, the keys to which she received only days earlier. Nearby, a soon-to-be-married young couple, Zhang Guopeng and Luo Xi, sizes up washing machines using a measuring tape. The two engineers are also shopping to fill up a new apartment, their first home together...
...black body armor and balaclavas guarded major intersections. Residents of downtown Beijing were instructed not to emerge from their homes or attempt to witness the rehearsals, during which tanks and armored personnel carriers rumbled past the Prada and Gucci shops lining the capital's most famous thoroughfare, Chang'an Jie (Avenue of Eternal Peace...
...Ultimately Chinese carmakers, not foreign manufacturers like Hyundai, are expected to benefit most from Beijing's moves. "Domestic manufacturers mostly focus on the production of automobiles with smaller engine power, and they benefit the most from the tax reduction policy," says Yao Jie, deputy secretary general of China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. While domestic brands accounted for 26% of the market last year, their share climbed to 30% in January, Yao says. Chery Automobile Co, the highest-selling Chinese automaker and manufacturer of the popular QQ compact, says it expects to increase sales by 18% this year...
...about 6 o'clock on Thursday evening, near what used to be quitting time for the day shift at the He Jun toy factory in Dongguan, China, 40-year-old Wei Dong Li made his way to the factory's front entrance, his 3-year-old son Qian Jie tugging at his sleeve. The factory is now closed; a few security guards stand inside the locked gate. Posted each evening at the front entrance is a sheaf of documents, the latest rulings from a local court on compensation claims filed by many of He Jun's 4,000 workers...