Shi Shing Ping, Vice President of China's SSS

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Shi shing ping, the vice president of china. has arrived in ireland for a three day visit. In two thousand and 12 co chinese president she jing ping was about to take over power. And when on his european leg, where died, he go not to brussels, not to berlin, not to london, but shannon. Shaming is quite distressed that not all the credit for china's sss can got annon.

On the west coast of Ireland, on the banks of an estuary dividing county Limerick from county Clare, lies a small town called Shannon. But Shannon is not a quaint fishing village or farming community. Its industry is its airport. And Shannon Airport is big. It handles up to 1.7 million passengers and 20,000 flights a year, most of them from other countries. It looks like a cosmopolitan international airport, but it has a unique claim to fame: the world's first airport duty-free store.

Today, the store has what you would expect -- designer perfumes, jewelry and various fine foods, with a lot of local (in this case Irish) products in particular. But like the area around the airport, the shop started out small, with a local boy from the area who would go on to change the world of tax-free commerce in and beyond Shannon.

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