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"They are doing better. They are increasingly collaborating with researchers abroad."

M'hamed el Aisati, director of content and analytics research management of Elsevier. Chinese researchers and universities have made progress in international collaboration, he said.

"I can say that the Olympic spirit that Beijing and China showed the world in 2008 is alive and as strong as ever."

Alexander Zhukov, Russian International Olympic Committee member and chairman of its evaluation commission, says its visit has confirmed that Beijing is capable of hosting successful Olympic Winter Games in 2022.

(China Daily European Weekly 04/03/2015 page3)