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The bamboo that grows in Southwest China's Sichuan province is famous for being pandas' favorite food, but humans have increasingly turned to the plant for toilet paper and paper towels.
Last year, Sichuan produced 1.1 million tons of household paper from bamboo, equivalent to about one-tenth of China's total paper production for household purposes, according to the Sichuan Paper Association.
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Chinese telecommunications company ZTE reported full-year operating revenue of 108.8 billion yuan ($17.2 billion) last year, according to the company's annual report released Thursday.
It marked a yearly increase of 7.5 percent, the report said.
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Mar 2017, Jack Ma launched NASA project.
E-commerce giant Alibaba Group said on Friday that it has always wanted to float shares in China when the time is ripe, following media reports saying it is contemplating a secondary listing in its home market.
The development came as the securities regulator works to encourage new-economy companies to raise capital at home through novel measures.
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Quality content with a personalized touch commands premium price in a growing market driven by 'middle-class anxiety' over careers
For Chen Hua, 28, an automobile engineer in Shanghai, reading out English text aloud after taking pronunciation lessons on a mobile app has become an evening routine. Chen might skip dinner, but wouldn't trade even one language class delivered by the app for anything.
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Geely Auto's Baoji Plant.
Li Shufu, founder of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, is a rising star in the global auto industry, with his scores of international deals prompting competition concerns in the West and drawing substantial praise in China. Though Li is currently jumping many hurdles in the West, people who know him well say he is a man on a global mission to save the traditional auto manufacturing industry.
He may not be as well-known around the world as some of the biggest names in China's corporate world - like the star founder of Alibaba Group Jack Ma Yun, who speaks fluent English and does not shy away from global media attention, or the outspoken billionaire behind conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group Wang Jianlin, who once vowed to prevent Disneyland Shanghai from making any profit for 20 years - but Li Shufu, the low-key founder and chairman of Chinese carmaker Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, is now a rising star in the global auto industry.
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