China's economy is growing vigorously and at rates which are still impressive even in today's down global economy. At one point, during the Chairman Mao years, the Chinese economy was considered a basket case. Economic liberalization over the last couple of decades, however, has unleashed an appetite on the part of the country in terms of imports and exports that a significant.


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