But he said he was trying to preserve a competitive market place.
Such businesses — notably in the energy and telecommunications industries — have been wary of letting foreign rivals into the country and remain defenders of keeping China's currency weak, so as to preserve a competitive advantage for their exports.
This preserved a competitive advantage for Chinese exports and helped China gain or retain millions of jobs in export-related industries that might otherwise have remained in industrialized countries or moved to other developing countries.
That strategy has helped preserve a competitive advantage of Chinese exporters by keeping their prices relatively low on global markets — while also protecting the jobs of tens of millions of Chinese workers in export factories.
The People's Bank of China, the country's central bank, has been doing so in an effort to hold down the value of the renminbi and preserve a competitive advantage in foreign markets for exporters in China and the tens of millions of workers they employ.
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Much of that investment goes to preserving a key competitive advantage: safety.
After months spent gathering comments about preserving an open and competitive Internet, the F.C.C. requested more feedback on Wednesday about whether regulations should apply to wireless Internet service.
But we have concluded that, in these current circumstances, protecting vulnerable groups by preserving a viable Post Office network justifies the award of a contract outside the competitive process.
Preserving a healthy planet.
