
Sixty years after Mao Zedong’s communist forces seized power, China has transformed from an economic backwater into an economic superpower. In a third and final part of a special series retracing the Long March – a crucial episode in the communist ascent to power – Al Jazeera visits Shaanxi province, where the march came to and end. As Melissa Chan reports, the end of the march marked the beginning of the communist government’s extraordinary journey onto the global stage.
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China State Construction is to list in Shanghai July 29 in what will be the biggest IPO since March ’08. “Right now the Chinese economy is the strongest in the world,” Martin Hennecke from Tyche said. “The market has obviously recovered a good deal.”
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