The China Development Bank and the Export-Import Bank of China (CHEXIM) now provide as much development finance as the next six biggest multilateral lenders combined.
The area, Mr. Chan said, has not had as much commercial development as he would have liked.
However, relations between India's 150 million Muslims and the Hindu majority, as much as development, was a key theme as candidates traded accusations of seeking to win votes through targeting particular communities or raising sectarian tensions.
"This is the worst thing that we could imagine for Yosemite," Greg Adair, director of Friends of Yosemite Valley, said of the final plan, which his organization and other critics say is weighted as much toward development as restoration.
If you make a rum punch pit stop at one of the bars along the beach, you'll see about as much commercial development as there is on Anegada.
Rosa Durando, of the Palm Beach Audubon Society, said that after more than 30 years of environmental advocacy in Florida, she doubted that the purchase would serve nature as much as development.
However, if leaders were appropriately selected organizations would not have to spend four times as much on development as they do on selection, with dismal results.
Across the city's 1,700 parks, the coming year will see much new development as well as the reopening of some long-defunct attractions.
The old received wisdom that for children's (and adults) wellbeing, health, their social and educational development, as much stability as possible is key—has been buried in the dust of the affordable housing crisis.
