The road to Bowen School cuts across dusty fields and through grim industrial zones in southeast Beijing.
India is helping set up industrial zones, small-business parks and factories in Tamil areas.
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They work here in industrial zones spread out across remote parts of the country.
From there, the weaving route brought big towns and stretches of grey highways, abandoned trains and industrial zones, then a forest-and-river trail over dams and bridges.
Most of Vietnam's 60 industrial zones have failed to attract investors.
For at least the last week, flood waters have inundated parts of Thailand, including some key industrial zones, forcing hundreds of factories to shut down production.
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The concept of industrial zones has brought short-term gains.
The City of Irvine, incorporated in 1971, is considered to be one of the largest planned urban communities in the nation, encompassing more than 65 square miles, some 200, 000 people, and featuring industrial zones, residential and recreational areas, and businesses.
Michael Tamdio, the director general of the national office of industrial free zones, says the new stock exchange will allow it to privatise vital parts of the infrastructure.
Establishment of industrial-development zones, urban expansion and road building are all shrinking agricultural land.
The massive growth in some East Asian countries in the past 25 years became possible through the concept of pulling foreign investments into industrial and free trade zones through very attractive tax incentives.
The City has identified 15 innovation zones in key commercial and industrial corridors, and will work with the private sector to leverage the existing infrastructure and assets to ensure low-cost broadband is available in these zones with the ultimate goal of extension to all businesses in the City.
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"There was a submarine cable laid between Singapore and India which probably had quite an effect, and export processing zones were redesignated so there would have been some industrial investment due to tax breaks, " he said.
Dr Chris Melhuish and his Bristol-based team hope the robot, called EcoBot II, will one day be sent into zones too dangerous for humans, potentially proving invaluable in military, security and industrial areas.
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