Word: sichuan
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...Chinese leadership in 1972-73 under the auspices of Premier Zhou Enlai. It was just at that time that the U.S. arrived permanently in Beijing with its Liaison Office, headed in 1974 by George Herbert Walker Bush. When these two men met, Deng?the short, tough revolutionary from Sichuan in central China?and Bush?the tall, ambitious and smart ?litist from America's Northeast?the chemistry was immediate. Deng saw Bush as an American who some day would lead his country, and Bush saw in Deng a major force in China's future. It was not an intellectual appreciation...
...overly optimistic investments by clamping down on credit will be ineffective, because local lenders may not heed Beijing's edicts. For a nation that was once completely command controlled, the central government has surprisingly few ways to compel regional lenders to obey orders. In Chengdu, for example, capital of Sichuan province 1,500 kilometers from Beijing, a branch of the China Construction Bank recently approved loans to upgrade a steel mill in the town of Panzhihua. Jiang Wen, chief of the bank's business-development department, says the mill already has local-government approval, so the bank is pushing ahead...
...years Prison sentence given to three Tibetan monks by a court in Sichuan for painting a Tibetan flag and possessing pictures of the Dalai Lama
PEGGY YU Beijing Bookseller Whenever the co-president of Dangdang.com China's largest online bookseller, travels to the U.S., friends pile on requests for American tomes. "I'm tired of being a camel," says Yu, 38, a native of Sichuan province, in southwestern China. So she is negotiating with American publishers to sell their books on Dangdang. Yu says Chinese readers are particularly fond of architecture and design books. The four-year-old company has continued its triple-digit sales growth and this year produced positive cash flow...
...police tell it, that new anonymity helped Ma and a female accomplice lure a dozen women to their Shenzhen home, chop them to bits and secretly scatter their body parts along a riverbank without drawing suspicion. "I thought he was odd," says Ma's neighbor Zeng, who is from Sichuan province. "But so many people come and go that I didn't pay much mind...