While the United States has been adding manufacturing jobs in some areas lately, it is enjoying a boom in a "product" in high demand globally: university graduates. Much of that interest comes from China, with which the US has a large trade deficit overall.
Before China implemented its one-child policy in the late 1970s, multiple siblings would share the burden of caring for elderly parents.
Billed as "the place where China meets the world," the China World Trade Center has, since opening in 1990, brought Beijing its first Starbucks, housed the capital's finest luxury stores and hosted business travelers, residents and office workers.
For many East Asians, Singapore has long been a model of success, an economic miracle. It was one of the four "Asian tigers" that inspired Chinese leaders to pursue economic reform and opening-up. The city-state now boasts the world's third-highest level of GDP per capita, far ahead of its former colonial overlord Britain and trailing only Qatar and Luxembourg.
When the playwright David Henry Hwang wrote Dance and the Railroad in 1980, defining and documenting the immigrant identity was for many Chinese Americans a task of serious importance.
With money "pouring" into its arts and culture scene, China stands poised to begin influencing other nations artistically.
Tesla Motors Inc raised eyebrows at the Detroit auto show in January by announcing it would open its first Chinese dealership, in Beijing, this spring.
Friday _________________________ March 1
A leading US industry group has signed its first Chinese partnership with Shangpin.com, a high-end online fashion retailer based in Beijing.
The first Muppet to blaze a trail in China was Big Bird, with a 1983 television special there. In 2010 the 8-foot-tall, yellow-feathered animal's Mandarin-language version of Big Bird Looks at the World debuted in China.
New York-listed shares of Chinese solar-panel maker Suntech Power fell 3.3 percent to $1.17 Wednesday, following a dramatic change in the company's management.
Shipping bankruptcy strands ships, roils maritime cargo industry
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263 Registration Number: 20100000002731 
