mainland China
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Li says this sense of community is difficult to find in mainland China.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Since then it has been regularly used for domestic commercial routes, as well as those between mainland China and Hong Kong.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Unitree Robotics is set to become the first public humanoid-robotics company in mainland China, and it’s riding the robotics hype straight to the bank.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
Yum China Holdings also agreed in a separate deal to acquire Pizza Hut’s mainland China business for $1.2 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Why did Austronesian people, stemming ultimately from mainland China, colonize Java and the rest of Indonesia and replace the original inhabitants there, instead of Indonesians colonizing China and replacing the Chinese?
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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