It is, economically and culturally, one of the most developed regions in China. Yangzhou stands out as a shining pearl on this abundant land.

江苏历史悠久，物华天宝，人杰地灵，是中国经济文化最发达的地区之一，而扬州则是江苏大地上一颗璀璨的明珠。

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Every week brings fresh reports of factory closings, particularly in the industrial belt around the Pearl River delta in southern China.

每周都有工厂关闭的最新报道，尤其是在中国南方珠三角地区的工业带。

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Shanghai is a pearl in East China.

上海是中国东方的一颗明珠。

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Disputes are especially common in the Pearl River manufacturing area in southeastern China.

VOA: special.2010.06.18

Declining U.S. consumer sentiment has led to this year's closure of 10, 000 factories in China's export powerhouse, the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong province.

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Macau sits on a horn of rocky coastline, where the Pearl River washes into the South China Sea.

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Positioned at Pudong's tip, the Oriental Pearl Tower was a cartoonish totem for China's race into modernity and an emphatic counterpoint to the Bund, a strip of colonial-era buildings on the opposite Puxi bank of the Huangpu River.

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