Quotas on textile and garment producers did come off January 1, for everyone but China, that is.
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The man who came too late
Zhao Ziyang’s death revives memories of how the economic miracle of the past 20 years really got started.
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Here comes 2002
Economic view/ From Bank of America’s Situation Room, A prediction of a slowdown back to earlier growth levels
Dr Stephen Oesterle, Medtronic’s senior vice president for medicine and technology and Medtronic China Vice President and General Manager Victor Tsui also contributed points in the conversation.
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We have the technology
US$10bn Medtronic, Inc makes so many pacemakers, stents and other devices that the company claims its devices are implanted in somebody somewhere every six seconds. And they are deployed in ever more varied therapies as research finds more ways to work the electricity that pervades the human body. About 120,000 devices were implanted in China, where the company sees its biggest potential market – 200m people who, with the exception of many of China’s 40m diabetes sufferers, are over 50 and now live long enough to be snared by degenerative cardiovascular, neurological and other diseases for which Medtronic offers a wide range of therapies through the country’s estimated 3,000 top-tier hospitals.