Li Le, an agricultural products salesman from Tianjin, has put himself up for hire on Chinese New Year.

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In November, group managing director Philip Brass said some operations were shifting from Shenzhen to cheaper Tianjin, near Beijing.

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And aside from making a few MD-80s for McDonnell Douglas between 1985 and 1994, the closest China comes to being a manufacturer of big-league commercial aircraft is the Airbus assembly plant in Tianjin, where it puts together A320s from kits.

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Airbus, which has assembled A320s in the northern city of Tianjin since 2009, delivered its 100th plane from that facility last month.

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Toyota, for instance, is importing from its super-efficient plants in Japan, but is also ramping up production in Tianjin, on China's coast.

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Foreign firms should establish long-term interaction with leading Chinese faculty at Chinese universities, from top-rated Beijing University to Tsinghua to Fudan (in Shanghai) to other colleges in Tianjin, Dalian, Nanjing, Wuhan, Xiamen and Guangdong.

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The report found that one-third of luxury consumption in China today came from just nine markets: Chongqing, Dongguan, Foshan, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Shenzhen, Tianjin and Wenzhou.

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