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		<title>West China: Why FDI Should Consider the Region</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
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Op-Ed Commentary: Chris Devonshire-Ellis
Sept. 2 &#8211; Following the conclusion of our series of articles about investing in China’s western regions, I believe that foreign investors would do well to look at these emerging markets in China. As sales markets in the United States and Europe remain stagnant following the global recession and growth remains slow, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Foreign-managed Hotel to Open in Tibet</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
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Sept. 2 – Beijing has approved the development of a new five star hotel in Tibet, the first to be developed there since the pull-out of the Lhasa Holiday Inn several years ago.
The hotel, to be built by listed company Tibetan Tourism, will be located in the remote town of Pai, in the beautiful Yarlung [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China Industry: Sept. 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
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Sept. 2 &#8211; This is a regular series of relevant industry news from around China.
Air transport
China Southern Airlines will commence additional flights to Australia from October 31. The company will boost the number of daily flights between Guangzhou and Sydney from the current one to two. China Southern will also start flying seven times a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Special Economic Zone in Yili, Near Kazakhstan Border</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sept. 1 – China has ratified a new special economic zone in Yili, in northwestern Xinjiang near the border with Kazakhstan. The area is already China’s only Kazakh autonomous prefecture, populated mainly by ethnic Kazakhs. The prefecture has a total population of four million with about 500,000 living in the city of Yining, also known [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CIRC Clarifies Local Insurance Clauses and Premiums for Property Insurance Companies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 03:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sept.  1 &#8211; China’s insurance regulator recently clarified several issues regarding local insurance clauses and premiums related to property insurance companies.
The China Insurance Regulatory Commission issued Baojiantingfa [2010] No. 61 on August 3, stipulating that all insurance companies will sort local insurance clauses and premiums, which were submitted to the local branches of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Issue of China Briefing: Employment Overheads in China’s Social Security System</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 03:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sept. 1 &#8211; In the September issue of China Briefing we look at China’s social security regime and the five social insurance funds that enterprises in China must contribute to: pension, medical insurance, unemployment insurance, maternity insurance, and occupational injury insurance.
We also look at the housing fund, another mandatory fund that both employers and employees [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investing in Yunnan: ASEAN, Adventure Tourism, Myanmar and India’s Elephant in the Backyard</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
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By Chris Devonshire-Ellis
Aug. 31 – Yunnan has always been an enigmatic province; encompassing four major Chinese minorities influenced by Vietnam, India, Burma and Tibet, and home to the very eastern end of the Himalayan ranges, it is never a simple region to categorize.
However, due to booming trade with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SAT Clarifies Offset of Accumulative Losses after Cancellation of Consolidated CIT Payments</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aug. 31 – The State Administration of Taxation recently released a notice regarding the handling of corporate income tax on the accumulative loss of the previous years after the cancellation of consolidated payments, effective from January 1, 2009.
According to the notice, after canceling consolidated payments of CIT, a corporate group is allowed to allocate the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ningxia to Host China-Arab States Trade Forum</title>
		<link>http://www.china-briefing.com/news/2010/08/30/ningxia-to-host-china-arab-states-trade-forum.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aug. 30 &#8211; Yinchuan, the capital city of Ningxia, will host the first China-Arab Trade Forum in a bid to further align itself with Arabic investment in hopes of securing petro-dollar investments.
Yinchuan is an ancient Silk Road city with a strong population of Muslims, many of them Arabic and Persian descendants of early Silk Road [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SAT Clarifies Treatment of Land Appreciation Tax on Transfer of Certain Infrastructure</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aug. 30 &#8211; The State Administration of Taxation issued a tax circular late last month affirming that the transfer of certain infrastructure constructed on a piece of land is subject to land appreciation tax.
Issued in response to a request from the Xiamen municipal tax bureau, Guoshuihan [2010] No. 347 clarifies the treatment of land appreciation [...]]]></description>
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