Since it's a "warm" day, we'll repack equipment on the bus and resupply it with coffee, paper towels, toilet paper, whatever we need.

CNN: Express Line dispatch: Time for reflection, laundry

So far 28 companies, including telecom equipment makers ZTE and Huawei and bus manufacturer Xiamen King Long Automotive, have signed up for the Ruba-Haier industrial park.

FORBES: China's Khyber Pass

The other main joint venture, Ford-led Ecostar, takes the machinery from Stuttgart and fits it into electric motors, transmission and control equipment to make a fuel-cell engine that can turn the wheels of a car or a bus.

ECONOMIST: Fuel cells: Intel on wheels | The