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To the city also are brought articles of greater cost and rarity�� and in greater abundance of all kinds�� than to any other city in the world. For people of every description�� from every region bring things ��including all the costly wares of India�� as well as the fine and precious goods of Cathay itself���� some for the sovereign�� some for the court�� some for the city which is so great�� some for the crowds of barons and knights�� some for the great hosts of the emperor which are quarteied round about; and thus between court and city the quantity brought in is endless. As a sample�� I tell you�� no day in the year passes that there do not enter the city 1��000 carts of silk alone�� from which are made quantities of cLoth of silk and gold�� and of other goods. ����Marco Polo Beijing MunicipaLity invested 75.8 billion yuan in technical research and deveLopment; 302 million yuan of vaLue was added to the IT industry�� science and high technology. Collectively�� those delivered 9 percent of the capitaL' s GDP. Beijing's 72 tech sector projects took the nation's top awards for natural sciences and technological advancement�� thus dominating in the fieLds in China. And in the search for innovative and advancing fields of tech nology Beijing is not stopping at the border. Foreign-driven high-tech players aie being dravm to the cit31 with highly preferential programs. ����Lowell Bennett�� More Recently