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China has gone through an extraordinary economic transformation over the last 30 years. This transformation has remade the face of coastal China. It's now spilling over into the interior and it's raised, literally, hundreds of millions of people to an unprecedented level of affluence.

Chinese growth is on a downward path.  Gross domestic product increased 11.9% in the first quarter last year, and the rate of increase has declined every quart