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SHOTLIST Beijing, China - 2 August 2010 1. Wide of young couple, Chen Chaoxu, a 31-year-old marketing executive, and Liu Xiaolin, 29-year-old export business worker, shopping for home appliances 2. Pan of computers on display to couple 3. Various of young couple entering their car and leaving store 4. Wide interior of young couple's house, Chen working on computer 5. Various of Chen working at the computer 6. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Chen Chaoxu, Beijing resident: "We are very confident (in China's economy). We have been many years in Beijing now, and we have a very stable life. Although there is a crisis, life for us and people around us is quite stable." 7. Various of Liu cooking 8. Various of couple having dinner Beijing, China - 10 August 2010 9. Wide set up shot of Senior Economist at the China office of the World Bank Louis Kuijs 10. SOUNDBITE (English) Louis Kuijs, Senior Economist at the China Office of the World Bank: "China's growth is having, increasingly, an impact on many other regions of the world. In part that is via the things that China buys; commodities, technology, capital goods from Germany. But more commodities from countries like Australia and Brazil, many other emerging markets and developing countries." FILE: Beijing, China - 15 September 2006 11. Various of production line at Mercedes Benz manufacturing plant Beijing, China - 10 August 2010 12. SOUNDBITE (English) Louis Kuijs, Senior Economist at the China Office of the World Bank: "We've had the Asian crisis, we've had the recent financial crisis, and China's growth has been fairly robust to that and I think that is giving people confidence. It is giving firms the confidence to continue investing, it's giving people the confidence to continue consuming, and to plan their life and for people to assume that things will get better in the future." Tianjin, China - 6 August 2010 13. Wide of Tianjin port 14. Various of containers being lifted onto export ship at Tianjin port 15. Pan of construction of bridge 16. Close of construction of bridge 17. Wide of construction site STORYLINE New figures released on Monday showed China overtook Japan as the world's second largest economy in the second quarter, a resurgence that is changing everything from the global balance of military and financial power to the way in which cars are designed. Japan lost its title as receding global growth sapped momentum last quarter and stunted a shaky recovery. The government said on Monday that gross domestic product grew at an annualised rate of 0.4 percent, far below expectations of 2.3 percent growth in a Kyodo news agency survey. The data also provided further evidence that China will almost certainly surpass Japan as the world's second-biggest economy when full-year figures are released. China's economy will almost certainly be bigger than Japan's at the end of 2010 because of the big difference in each country's growth rates. China is growing at about 10 percent a year while Japan's economy is forecast to grow 3 percent this year. Japan's nominal GDP (Gross Domestic Product) fell 0.9 percent in the first decline three months, according to the Cabinet Office's preliminary report. That translates to nominal output of 1.286 (t) trillion US dollars. China's GDP was 1.335 (t) trillion for the April-June quarter. By some measures China has already moved to second place after the US in total economic output, a milestone that would underline a pre-eminence not seen since the 18th century, when the Middle Kingdom last served as Asia's military, technological and cultural power. China is already the biggest exporter, auto buyer and steel producer, and its worldwide influence is growing. But China's rise has though produced glaring contradictions. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/a58530634cb1d914333b2037baee834e Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork