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In August 2003, in Chengdu, in south-west China’s Sichuan province, a telephone number consisting of eight eights was sold at auction for 2.33 million yuan (about US$280,723). The opening ceremony of China’s Olympics Games in Beijing on the eighth day of the eighth month (August 8) of 2008, began at 8 seconds and 8 minutes past 8 pm local time.
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China Rises. How China’s Astonishing Growth Will Change the World, by John Farndon, Virgin Books, 2007, is an important source for this section and China’s post-1978 industrialization.
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Bouée, CE. (2011). The road from isolation. In: China’s Management Revolution. International Management Knowledge. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230303867_2
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