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  • Given all its flaws and not so reliable filter result, the question followed is why the MIIT would spend more than 41 million yuans to pay the software company, Jinhui Technologies, one year license fee?

    Global Voices in English » China: A leaking dam? 2009

  • Similarly, Beijing broke new ground in the region by giving Buenos Aires access to more than $10 billion in yuans.

    Dilip Hiro: Defying the Economic Odds 2009

  • Given all its flaws and not so reliable filter result, the question followed is why the MIIT would spend more than 41 million yuans to pay the software company, Jinhui Technologies, one year license fee?

    China: A leaking dam? 2009

  • The critics of blown-up government spending finally took center stage last week, after staying largely in the shadows as countries around the world threw hundreds of billions of dollars, euros and yuans at their banks and economies to help stave off the worsening recession.

    The German Bombshell 2008

  • Getting out of dollars and into yuans might also be a smart thing for them to do:

    Firedoglake » Are We Already at War in Iran? 2006

  • That all is not well in the commune system is startlingly illustrated by the fact that Chou En-lai, in an official speech before the Peoples 'Congress, when we were in China in May, stated that total agricultural production in 1958 had risen by 64 per cent over 1957, and that by 1958, as a result of the communes, it would reach the enormous figure of 122 billion yuans.

    Communist China—Time for Reappraisal 1959

  • On September 1st, four months afterwards, he announced that these estimates had been overoptimistic and that the 64 per cent increase was reduced to a 25 per cent increase, and that the 1958 estimate was reduced from 122 billion yuans to 67 billion yuans.

    Communist China—Time for Reappraisal 1959

  • The National Government is composed of five departments, or yuans as they term them-the Executive, the Legislative, the Judicial, the Examination, and the Control.

    China and the Foreign Powers 1930

  • Beijing launched a pilot program in June to hand out rebates to electric and hybrid car buyers as its stepped up its efforts to cut emissions, and it is due to present a draft plan setting out billions of yuans of investment in the sector.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Helen Massy-Beresford 2011

  • Beijing launched a pilot program in June to hand out rebates to electric and hybrid car buyers as its stepped up its efforts to cut emissions, and it is due to present a draft plan setting out billions of yuans of investment in the sector.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Helen Massy-Beresford 2011

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