The thought of going travelling abroad has often recurred to her mind.

The challenges that lie ahead are large but, as China has shown repeatedly during its reform process, its will and ability to deal with difficult tasks provide grounds for optimism.

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The odds in that war looked less than encouraging, however: even the captains of industry who were emblems of the free enterprise system had, as often as not, succumbed to the prevailing orthodoxy.

Welfare officials had tried to meet Mr Kato since early this year. But when they went to visit, family members repeatedly chased them away, according to Tomoko Iwamatsu, an Adachi ward official.