At a site 50 miles from Chengdu, the Sichuan capital, a dramatic rescue operation took place when signs of life emerged from a flattened factory.

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At the time I particularly liked a girl from Chengdu.

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The roads in the city of Yingjing, on the way to Lushan from Chengdu, were packed with heavy equipment brought in by military and rescue workers, but police were restricting much of the travel.

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There are around 80, 000 workers in Foxconn by May this year, about one fifth of the total number of new jobs created by major investment projects in Chengdu last year, according to statistics from Chengdu Human Resources and Social Security Bureau.

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Mr Li, from China's Chengdu province, targeted software from big manufacturers including Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and Rockwell Automation before selling them on to 325 buyers, including a Nasa engineer as well as military contractors.

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Similarly, Intel moved its manufacturing and testing plants from Shanghai to Chengdu in 2009.

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From Wuhan to Chongqing, Chengdu to Hangzhou, second tier cities are emerging as hubs for both international and domestic executives.

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In this article from December, he committed to Chengdu being able to produce 40 million iPad 2s in 2011, and 100 million in 2013.

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But let me just give you the headlines from our three days in Beijing and one day in Chengdu.

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For example, Foxconn announced it was expanding operations to inland areas near Chengdu, Wuhan, and Zhengzhou, away from its coastal base.

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Chengdu's award-winning rehabilitation has drawn delegations from China's other major cities to study its methods and many of its planners have taken their expertise to other towns and districts in the region.

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The increased use of robots as well as moving manufacturing from East Coast cities to the interior of China, such as to Chengdu, is an attempt to reduce costs.

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He made the promise while visiting the Huaxi Hospital in Chengdu, the provincial capital, which received 160 seriously injured from the quake area on Saturday night, nine of whom were in intensive care, according to Caijing Magazine.

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The newspaper reported that students at universities in Chengdu, Sichuan's capital, organized meetings on campus to "demand fairness from the U.S.".

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