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China Daily | Updated: 2015-05-28 07:31
About half of the champagne sold today is purchased in countries and regions outside France; 30 percent goes to Asia.
Japan has the largest champagne market in Asia, about eight times that of the Chinese mainland.
In 2005, China imported 300,000 bottles of champagne and the number reached 1.6 million bottles in 2014.
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