Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wal-Mart plans to open 20 stores in China this year.

Many rich people in China made their fortunes by damaging natural resources and building corrupt relations with the government.

To uphold the interests of most developing nations, and to preserve the long-term interests of the United Nations, China will resolutely vote no if the G-4 proposal is put up for a vote.

Traditionally, there was a perception that households in China do all the savings. Household saving is significant in China, but it is not driving the national savings.

This story is important because I don't think we are going to have a lame duck secretary at a time when the president of the fastest growing nation in the world is coming here and when the forefront of relations between China and the US is on finance issues.

We plan to double our sales in China every three years.

I think that China remains committed to greater flexibility in their currency and opening of their financial markets, ... It's an irreversible course and we think they're now in a position to move even faster.

Having spent many years working in New York's Chinatown restaurants early in my career, I have the utmost respect for the history and connection New Yorkers have with Chinese cuisine.

We're not going into this with the premise that China is wrong. We're going into this with the premise ... that China's leaders are moving China in a direction that's going to be ultimately good for them and the world but that these are things they have to do to succeed.

Martin Jacques

We still insist, by and large, in thinking that we can understand China by simply drawing on Western experience, looking at it through Western eyes, using Western concepts. If you want to know why we unerringly seem to get China wrong... this is the reason.

We are convinced that our joint, mutual cooperation with China in the sphere of space will be constantly developing and increasing.

We are looking at China as a long-term market exercise.

Bill Gates

We're encouraged by China's efforts to strengthen intellectual property protection, which will provide the foundation for continued expansion of the IT industry in China. We look forward to working with the Chinese government and partner companies in China to create new opportunities for growth.

We should look at our commercial, cultural, educational and value system exchanges with China on one hand, and on the other hand we should develop our diplomatic and international value system with recognized people like the Dalai Lama.

The growth model China has relied on for the last 30 years - one predicated on low-cost exports to the rest of the world and investment in resource intensive heavy manufacturing - is unlikely to serve it well in the next 30 years.

The explosive growth in places like Shanghai has helped lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and into a thriving new middle class. What China has done is nothing short of an economic transformation, and the citizens of this country have every right to be proud.

China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower.

With the China market on holiday, Hong Kong is tracking trends in the Japanese market.

We are expanding to eight million tons next year from six million this year to meet demand, which just keeps getting stronger and stronger as China manufactures more.

China no longer has an ideology that makes any sense to them, but what they do have is great pride in the Chinese nation.

When I was a student there in the mid-1990s, they had just created the weekend; depth and individuality were slowly returning after the austere, colorless low of the 1970s. When I returned to live in China from 2005 to 2013, the country was building everything anew.

Rebecca MacKinnon

There are a lot of people that think the Internet is going to bring information and democracy and pluralism in China just by existing.

China and India are feeding their people for the first time in human history due to free markets, and the Left knows that, and it gets them nervous.

There is only one China in the world and the government of the People's Republic of China is the sole legitimate government of the whole of China.

Byron Dorgan

This relates to a massive number of American jobs and American enterprise being shipped overseas in circumstances of trade that are fundamentally unfair because that is the way China wants it.

This reflects the importance of the upcoming vote on China trade,

There are already Chinese software companies, operating in China; they are fast learners ... If there will be a large software company emerging in Asia, it is likely to emerge in China first.

Martin Jacques

The reason why China forecasting has such a poor track record is that Westerners constantly invoke the model and experience of the West to explain China, and it is a false prophet. Until we start trying to understand China on its own terms, rather than as a Western-style nation in the making, we will continue to get it wrong.

There has been much legitimate talk about the competitive threat posed to the developed world by the soaring growth of industries in China and India. Of course they are a challenge, but they also represent a huge opportunity.

There has been an attitudinal shift in the railways. They are trying to respond to market needs, but there is no denying the fact that the government of India is not able to invest in infrastructure in the way that China is.

When China had a planned economy our material circumstances were not rich but our society was much more peaceful and stable. We didn't have the polarization between rich and poor we are seeing today.

Mick Jagger

We kind of expected that. We didn't expect to come to China and not be censored.

We have been in discussions for a second park in China for some time. But we have priorities and a focus. We have a first park in China already, and we want to make it successful.