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WHEN QIAO QIAN sits down to dinner with her parents after another hard day's study at college, she is able to discourse on everything from economics to astronomy. The four-year-old from Shanghai cannot only spell "precocious'' correctly, she is herself the embodiment of early child development. She is one of more than 3,000 Chinese children aged from three to six studying for an "early'' MBA, as the country's one-child policy and rising middle class incomes put pressure on parents to produce a genius. An exceptional early education and an early introduction to the world of business are seen as the best ways to ensure that a child stands out from the millions

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