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New stats from China's General Chamber of Commerce shows sales by the country's top 100 retailers in the country are down by about 10-percent. But as CRI's Zhang Wan reports, the study also shows that while brick-and-mortar retailers are struggling,

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Recent surveys by a youth group show that more than 80 percent of single youths in China are constantly under pressure from their parents to get married. As familial pressures are at an all-time high during big holiday gatherings such as the Spring F

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The number of 30-plus bachelors, or leftover men, in China's rural areas is astonishing. Some demographers estimate there may be 30 million, even 50 million of them thanks to the widening sex ratio at birth. But such estimation, to some extent, overs

NASA ready to launch shuttle Endeavour

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BEIJING, April 1 (Xinhua) -- China's Purchasing Managers Index (PMI), a preliminary readout of the country's manufacturing activity, rose for four consecutive months to the highest level since October, indicating the economy is on path of steady grow

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