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China and the chaebol

South Korea’s model of conglomerate development may have collapsed, but many Chinese policymakers are keen to reinvent it. Will Qingdao Haier be one of China’s first chaebol?

|BEIJING AND QINGDAO

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This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “China and the chaebol”

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