With incredible tactics‚ a group of nomadic people specifically referred to as the Mongols‚ conquered Eurasia during the 13th and 14th centuries and left impacts that apply even to the present. Out of the hundreds of changes they may have caused‚ there are three that seem the most significant. As they dominated most parts of Eurasia‚ they brought religious biases‚ impacts that had negative effect on Eurasia’s economy‚ and influenced the spread of ideas‚ technology‚ and diseases. To a certain
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China and the Global Financial Crisis: Implications for the United States Wayne M. Morrison Specialist in Asian Trade and Finance June 3‚ 2009 Congressional Research Service 7-5700 www.crs.gov RS22984 CRS Report for Congress Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress China and the Global Financial Crisis: Implications for the United States Summary Over the past several years‚ China has enjoyed one of the world’s fastest growing economies and has been a major contributor to world
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Marketing Strategy Analysis for Z-Kung fu Restaurant Abstract Z-Kung fu Global Chinese Fast Food Chains is a new mode of operation in Chinese fast-food chain industry. It has solved the standardization problems in Chinese fast food industry for the first time and set a new way of developing the Chinese fast food. Up to now‚ Z-Kung fu has opened 250 bistros‚ and began to compete with the foreign fast-food restaurants. Developing on strong capital‚ Z-Kung fu is expanding rapidly. However‚ there are
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China Ocean Shipping (Group) Co. (COSCO) is one of the largest liner shipping companies serving companies all over the world. It is a government-owned company. Founded in April 1961 with a registered capital of 1.9 billion Yuan in Beijing‚ COSCO is now a 116-billion-yuan corporation specializing in shipping and modern logistics. COSCO has six listed companies and more than 300 subsidiaries providing services in: freight forwarding‚ ship building‚ ship repairing‚ terminal operations‚ container
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Current Events Shanghai News 1Shanghai: Student of 21 primary and middle school have been ordered to stop wearing their uniforms on Monday after detection of toxic dyes in their garment. Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision in a recent quality inspection campaign detected aromatic amine dye‚ which can cause cancer. The uniforms produced in July 2012. Six batches of the company’s clothes products were substandard‚ said the city’s quality watchdog. The company has
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NEWS MEDIA CONSUMPTION: A COMPARATIVE STUDY Stylianos Papathanassopoulos‚ National & Kapodistrian University of Athens Sharon Coen‚ Salford University James Curran‚ Goldsmiths‚ University of London Toril Aalberg‚ Norwegian University of Science and Technology David Rowe‚ University of Western Sydney Paul Jones‚ University of New South Wales Hernando Rojas‚ University of Wisconsin-Madison Rod Tiffen‚ University of Sydney Abstract As news media change‚ so it is apparent that media news
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American Popular Culture Contrast between Chinese and American Consumption Concepts Following is a story that was once rather prevalently discussed in China: A Chinese old lady and an American old lady were both‚ miserably‚ dead. They met with each other in the heaven. The Chinese old lady said‚ “I have been working hard for more than thirty years. The day before my death‚ I finally managed to buy a large house with my own earnings. But the doctor said I was overworking‚ and caught a cancer
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I. History of Economic Growth and Reform Since 1978 China has experienced very rapid GDP growth. Between 1978 and 2009 China has had an annual growth of over 8% for twenty five out of thirty two years‚ and from 1979 to 2006‚ China had an average real GDP growth of 9.7% annually. This rapid growth has increased the size of its economy by eleven times what it was. In that same time period China’s world ranking for total trade rose from 27th to 3rd place. The real GDP per capita in China had also
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inEspecial economic zone: A Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is a geographical region that has economic and other laws that are more free-market-oriented than a country’s typical or national laws. "Nationwide" laws may be suspended inside a special economic zone. The category SEZ covers‚ including free trade zones (FTZ)‚ export processing Zones (EPZ)‚ free Zones (FZ)‚ industrial parks or industrial estates (IE)‚ free ports‚ free economic zones‚ urban enterprise zones and others. Usually the goal of
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Report about china’s micro-loan industry Program: Financial Services Introduction: This report is focus on the micro-loan industry in china. In this report‚ the subject will be divided into two parts: The first part will use Porter’s five forces model‚ trying to research and analysis the industry status quo. The second part will base on a specific micro-loan company and trying to find out the development and the corresponding strategies of china’s micro-loan company. Background “Microfinance
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