1.  Another reason is the Chinese communist state is at its core very modern and very anti-superstition.

2.  Economic success has been the hallmark of the other Chinese states, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong.

3.  Outside of the index, Chinese state-owned enterprises -- or H-shares -- extended their rally, as investors bet they will benefit from planned restructurings.

4.  The Chinese state sanitizes and perverts the facts of its ugly excesses.

5.  The Chinese state will no doubt continue to resist.

6.  In the past, Chinese state-owned entities were considered arms of the Chinese state and their debts were regarded as sovereign debt.

7.  The British group discussed a controversial government proposal to transfer privileges granting legal immunities from the British crown to organs of the Chinese state.

8.  The law transfers legal exemption that the British crown and Hong Kong government enjoyed during the colonial era to the Chinese state and post-handover Hong Kong government.

9.  The pro-government paper cited a decision by the Hong Kong legislature last week which gives Chinese state bodies the same privileges that were enjoyed by the British Crown.

10.  However many Western economists say Chinese state statistics should be treated very warily, particularly employment figures, which were also given.