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  • We will implement a proactive fiscal policy and a prudent monetary policy, speed up economic restructuring, vigorously strengthen indigenous innovation, make good progress in energy conservation and pollution reduction, continue to deepen reform and opening-up, work hard to ensure and improve people's livelihood, build on the achievements in addressing the international financial crisis, maintain steady and relatively fast economic growth and promote social stability and harmony.

    Excerpts from Hu Jintao interview Post 2011

  • China will pursue the win-win strategy of opening-up and stands ready to work with the United States and the international community as a whole to intensify practical cooperation, properly handle various risks and challenges, and make greater contribution to the overall recovery of the world economy.

    China's Hu Jintao answers questions with Washington Post The Washington Post 2011

  • The ongoing reform process, launched in 2005 at the joint instigation of the European Commission and the European Parliament, has already seen "the opening-up of the European schools system so that national schools can be accredited by the board of governors ... to offer the European curriculum and award the European baccalaureate," the EU executive said in a statement.

    Brussels bulletin 2009

  • Not long afterward, I visited him at his home in Far Hills, N.J., where he spoke in great detail about his wartime memories—an opening-up experience that seemed to be cathartic for him.

    The Things They Buried James D. Hornfischer 2011

  • China's state-run Xinhua news agency reported that Mr. Kim had said that China's "reform and opening-up policy has been proven correct."

    Kim Jong Il Praises Ally China as Trip Wraps Up Jeremy Page 2011

  • And I want this ending to be a beginning, an opening-up, an opening-towards new fear and new beauty and new wonder and new confusion and new dark and new light – because all of these need each other, each of these requires the others – and all of this as it folds back into the old and becomes greater-than and more.

    The Never-Ending Story | Her Bad Mother 2009

  • The privatisation of public services has been branded a scandal by unions who say that leaked tender documents reveal that the opening-up of the prison system to competition is "heavily biased" in favour of private firms.

    Private sector prisons are an eye-watering scandal, union tells justice ministry 2011

  • It's the emotional opening-up of this character, the rendering of Bill at a different level.

    Big Love: A Series Finale Postmortem with Creators Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer 2011

  • The opening-up of China and India over the past 20 years has lifted millions of people out of poverty.

    We can now see the true cost of globalisation | Observer editorial 2012

  • Not long afterward, I visited him at his home in Far Hills, N.J., where he spoke in great detail about his wartime memories—an opening-up experience that seemed to be cathartic for him.

    The Things They Buried James D. Hornfischer 2011

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