Fleet growth: over 1,000 yachts registered in mainland China

11:15 PM Wed 22 Jun 2011 GMT

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China's super rich have found one more area - yachting - in which to catch up with their Western counterparts. The mainland's nouveau riche increasingly spend their weekends cruising up and down various waterfronts. Emma An Reports. China has been keeping up with the West on almost every front it seems. And these days, the country's super rich have found one more area where they can do a little bit more catch-up work - yachting. The culture of yachting, a major pastime among affluent Americans and Europeans, is now taking hold in China as the mainland's nouveau riche increasingly spend ...

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by Emma An, China Daily

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Fleet growth: over 1,000 yachts registered in mainland China

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