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China set to overtake Germany

By 2006, China could have overtaken Germany as the world's third largest manufacturing country by value, according to a report compiled by brokerage BNP Paribas Peregrine. China, in fourth place in 2000, is already the number one producer of many types of product but the output value of its manufacturing industry is still relatively low […]

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Auto trade comes of age

Western car makers are hailing a new era in automobile sales in China. Increasingly major foreign car firms are toughing out the less than perfect conditions in order to make their presence felt in a country where the number of drivers is potentially huge.

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Selling tea to China

Chinese coffee, shoppers in Australia; Miners as nation states