A woman representing Tianjin Shunchi Real Estate Development Co Ltd bids for a 300,000-square-meter plot of land in Beijing, December 8, 2003. The company won the bid and paid out 905 million yuan (US$109 million) at the first large-scale land auction in the Chinese capital. [newsphoto.com.cn]

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