"In the 50s the oil refining industry came, and now there we are in the 21st century at the start of a new era of natural gas import and processing, " he commented.

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China is a prominent export-processing economy, which means that its factories import lots of raw materials and intermediate goods to stoke the machines and processes that manufacture and assemble the finished goods it exports to the United States and elsewhere.

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