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Updated: 2010-12-27 07:58

Buyers not price-sensitive

Comment on "Why made-in-China goods cost more" (China Daily, Dec 14)

I agree with the author's analysis. Developed countries have a much larger market for the goods mentioned in the article. Many buyers of such products are common consumers who can bring down the prices more easily.

But in China, such products are considered luxury goods, whose target consumers are not so price-sensitive.

A few examples are the digital cameras and foreign brand clothes. They cost almost twice more in China than in the West.

Chimeng, on China Daily Website

The development of languages

Comment on "Foreign words to be standardized" (China Daily, Dec 22)

The anxiety expressed in the article over the influence of other languages and outside sources on native languages is being articulated in almost every country today.

The French and Japanese are working to dissipate such concerns. In Iraq, poets are worried about what English is doing to their language.

Languages have been in conflict since the beginning of human history. That's how they developed or evolved. We don't have to be overly worried about it.

Wang, on China Daily Website

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