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With sports federations being cut adrift from state funding and told to embrace the market, consumer goods companies are snapping up the growing opportunities for sports sponsorship.

Zhu Rongji faces difficult challenges ahead as premier of China, but his position is strengthened by having won the respect of the international business community and of the Chinese public.

Abusy port since the time of the Ming dynasty, Tianjin has been nick-named the Shanghai of the North’. Rising to prominence in. the 14th century as an entrepot for goods hound for Beijing, itprospered and grey, becoming a walled garrison in the 15th century and ranking as one of the busiest ports in China two centuries later.

The old centre of Tianjin and the new development area are worlds apart, yet the two need to come together if the city is to be accepted as the undisputed industrial centre of the north.

Chongqing is home to many floundering state enterprises and city officials are desperate to sell them off to private firms.