Updated: Feb. 28, 2017 at 3:59 PM

Popular American brands in China (46 images)

American culture, especially clothing, music, movies and food, is widely promoted throughout China's major cities as the country continues to open up to Western culture.

Chinese shoppers walk past a newly opened Calvin Klein clothing boutique in Beijing on March 18, 2015. American and European clothing brands continue to expand in China in hopes of tapping into the world's largest market with an emerging middle-class that is bigger than the entire population of the United States. Photo by Stephen Shaver/UPI

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McDonald's employees greet customers with a spirit yell at a new McDonald's on the Olympic Green in Beijing on August 7, 2008. (UPI Photo/Terry Schmitt)

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A Chinese man escapes the midday sun to drink his tea in front of a McDonalds in central Beijing November 19, 2008. (UPI Photo/Stephen Shaver)

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A Chinese woman walks cycles past a McDonald's fast food store under construction in downtown Beijing, China on January 9, 2008. (UPI Photo/Stephen Shaver).

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