But the key to economic growth is not just the low cost of production, it's the value added--the innovation, design or better architecture, or the sheer intangible of exciting fashion.

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Goldwind, Coda, and the Thermal Power Research Institute are hybrids of Western design and Chinese production, and no nation has yet mastered both the invention and the low-cost manufacturing of clean technology.

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But newer manufacturing technologies, combined with a demand for low-cost chips to serve the high-volume consumer electronics market, have spurred chip makers to seek new ways to design their products.

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