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That is down to surging demand from Chinese companies for international staff. ... This is a major contrast compared with three years ago, when the majority of our work was to help multinational corporations find candidates in China."

XIAO LIRONG, director for Beijing and Shanghai at Spring Professional, a subsidiary of leading HR company Adecco Group.

"China's medical policies concerning online pharmaceutical stores are being relaxed step by step. ... Indeed, this policy of opening up the market will be the main growth engine for the industry."

FU GUANG, president of Baheal Pharmaceutical Group, which focuses on healthcare investment.

"Deals that will help with the policy effort to reduce industrial capacity, increase corporate efficiency and upgrade the country's strategic industries will certainly receive strong encouragement from the regulator."

DONG DENGXIN, a finance professor at Wuhan University of Science and Technology.

(China Daily Africa Weekly 08/18/2017 page24)