Female purchasing power helps balance China's economy
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SHENZHEN, China  - Waiting for a friend in Shenzhen's plush Kingglory Plaza, Chen Jing, 25, admires her new red Nokia mobile phone. Complete with 3G and MP3 features, the phone cost just over 3,000 yuan ($400) -- Chen's entire monthly wage.
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Chinese capital spending in November  barely slowed from record heights despite curbs on lending,  showing that the central bank's task in keeping the economy  from overheating remains formidable.
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The expanded program offers free services to Chinese consumers and small businesses.
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The Internet, husbands who help with  housework, and merit-based pay are helping Japanese women find  a formula for balancing careers and families.
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Chinese inflation rose in February on the back of higher food costs, but economists said they did not expect price pressures to get out of hand despite breakneck growth and plentiful cash in the banking system.
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Facing foreign competition in 2007, China's banks are expanding loan options.
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China's computermakers tap vast rural market with simple tools and local officials' support.
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More flexibility in China's yuan currency exchange rate will not restrain the country's economic growth and cause deflation, but instead will help China rebalance its economy towards domestic consumption, a top U.S. Treasury official said.
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The pace of Chinaâs economic development is still strong enough to keep pushing up prices around the world for everything from oil to iron ore to freight shipping.
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China's economic growth reaches its highest level in 13 years, with growth of 11.4% in 2007.
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BEIJING, March 12--China reported that its trade surplus in February surged ninefold from the same period a year earlier to $23.76 billion -- one of the highest monthly totals ever -- as top Chinese government officials reaffirmed promises to take measures to try to halt the widening gap.
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CHENGDU, China  - When Chinese policy makers talk about rebalancing the economy towards consumption from exports and investment, they have people like Liu Yong in mind.
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Businesses in China are having a hard time finding able-bodied workers and are having to pay the workers they can find more money.
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Chinese consumer inflation rose in February on the back of higher food costs, but economists said they did not expect price pressures to get out of hand despite breakneck growth and plentiful cash in the banking system.
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China's economy grew by 11.5% in the three months to the end of September, official figures show.
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Exports from China are shifting from basic goods like textiles, toys and shoes to higher-value industrial goods that compete more directly with products from advanced industrialized countries.