If we could match up schools and businesses, we could create pipelines right from the classroom to the office or the factory floor.

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An aviation firm from Georgia would create "about 400 jobs" if it located a new factory in Herefordshire.

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The Kunshan government required schools to create businesses to fund themselves, so Song rounded up loans from the teachers to open a factory.

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