Americans Living American Dream, in CHINA

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Calum MacLeod, Latest Export to China: The American Dream; Visionaries cash in on yak patties, spicy beer. USA Today, July 12, 2011 (title in print).
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2011-07-12-Americans-China-dreams-transplants_n.htm

Quote:

"At a time when many Americans back home worry whether fast-rising China is out to eat their lunch, the number of Americans living on the Chinese mainland has reached a record high of 71,493, according to Chinese census bureau figures released in April. In addition, more than 60,000 Americans live in Hong Kong, according to the U.S. State Department. A 2005 estimate of 110,000 Americans living in China included Hong Kong residents. Another 430,000 people from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau lived in China at the end of 2010, but Beijing does not count them as foreign residents.

"Despite visa hassles and headaches, the number of Americans living in China looks set to grow. The foreign population 'shows the international standard of a city,' argues Dai Jianzhong, a researcher from the Beijing Academy of Social Sciences. The think tank is lobbying city hall to improve living and working conditions for foreigners, who total just over 1% of Beijing residents, compared with 20% in New York and London, he says.

Note:
(a) Ggreat Leap Brewing 大跃 啤酒
http://www.greatleapbrewing.com/
(b) LIU Fang 刘 芳
(c) There is no Chinese name for the drink Honey Ma Blonde.
(d) The report said, "The result is Zhilam Hostel, meaning "ancient peace road" in Tibetan, which opened in 2008.

Zhilam Hostel  汇道客栈
http://zhilamhostel.com/
(e) Wokai--Microfinance in China  我开'
http://en.wokai.org/
(f) DAI Jianzhong 戴 建中


---------------------------------Separately
(1) Lingling Wei and Bob Davis, China Stumbles in Yuan Grand Plan. Wall Street Journal, July 15, 2011
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304223804576445900638590300.html
(China's plan to make yuan more international backfires: giving investors to profit from difference in interest rates between China and other countries; "hot money" to flood China; and booster, rather than reduced, its foreign-exchange reserves, which, inturn, fanning domestic inflation)

(2) James T Areddy and Simon Hall, Peabody Goes Deep in China; Coal miner will pursue project with government in restive Xinjiang region. Wall Street Journal, July 15, 2011
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304911104576445483122353742.html
("Thursday's statement noted the vast region, which takes up a sixth of China's landmass and is over twice the size of Texas, is rich with resources and will in coming years generate ten times the 100 million metric tons of coal produced last year. Xinjiang sits on 40% of national coal reserves and work is ongoing for a rail line to ship more of it east starting in 2013")

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