Tongwei, in western China's agriculture hub, Sichuan Province, is China's largest locally owned fish-feed supplier.
Recently, I visited a second tier city in Western China, called Chengdu, with about 5 million population.
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Also seeing gains for trucks, Chau holds Qingling Motors, which manufactures light trucks in western China with Isuzu Motor.
The Hilton Hotel in Chongqing in western China was briefly shut down recently and stripped of its star rating.
When I was in Western China several weeks ago, I had a chance to see this new policy in action.
Beijing's Tsinghua University and the local government are developing the site, located in a desert area in north-western China, Xinhua says.
At least 80 people are now known to have died in a series of earthquakes in south-western China, as rescuers struggle to reach remote areas.
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Aged 73, Ms. Yu lives with her husband in a dilapidated house in Rensha, a town of 31, 000 on the edges of Chongqing in western China.
Graduates who join the army or who take up jobs in poor, remote areas of western China will get their university tuition fees refunded by the government.
As part of a three-phase program to increase its strategic petroleum reserves, China is building four emergency oil-storage facilities across western China, in the east and in the south.
Second, a movement from the highly subsidized locations in Europe (particularly Germany and Spain) to very sunny areas such as the Southwestern US, Western China, and the high desert of Chile and Peru.
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Chongqing, regarded as the gateway to western China, is home to 31 million people - more than 10 times the population of Wales - and an estimated 260, 000 are expected at the Welsh exhibition.
The Earth does not have enough clean water, good pasture land or even livable space along coasts to have everyone in, say, the poorer areas of western China and central India living and driving the way we do in, say, northern Virginia.
Wind power is also being experimented with in a small way for power generation in northern and western China, where it could supply electricity to rural villages in windswept and increasingly arid Inner Mongolia and Gansu Province that are still not on the grid.
Meanwhile, the Chinese government can boast that it has established in Western China an economic zone for cloud computing and automotive and aerospace production resulting in 12.5% annual growth and 49% growth in annual tax revenue, with wages rising more than 10% a year.
For Western companies China can be a difficult market to crack due to its language barrier and inherently private culture.
In order to succeed in China, Western Internet companies need to study the China market carefully and understand Chinese culture.
Kyrgyzstan is a small nation of 4.5 million on the western border of China.
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Revealingly, none of the Western businesspeople in China interviewed for this article was willing to be quoted by name.
Late last year in Beijing, Gulfstream Aerospace opened the first business aircraft service center run by a Western manufacturer in China.
He suggests that farmers trying to grow thirsty grain in dry northern and western parts of China should be persuaded to change their crops.
It ramped up promotional activity to clear inventory in Western Europe and China, a smart way to handle the situation, and unlikely to happen again.
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This article seeks to illustrate them, unscientifically, by contrasting the life of a Western expat in China with that of a Chinese expat in Europe.
The lessons Crow drew from observing Western companies in China, first as a journalist and newspaper publisher and then as an advertising executive in Shanghai, remain relevant.
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In short, hot money is fleeing low interest rates in the U.S. and Western Europe for China, India, South Korea and other nations where the returns are much higher.
Samore and his colleagues believe there are no other options because all other options involve placing responsibility for contending with North Korea on non-Western powers like China, South Korea and Japan.
The copycat era of look-alike western sites in China will fade and more original ideas tailored to the local culture will flourish as the Chinese market develops and grows more sophisticated.
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"Our country has made such admirable strides in nation-building over the decades that few, if any, would advocate implanting a Western model in China - there's simply no market for it, " China Daily says.
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