One company, China Netcom, inherited the telephone networks in ten northern and western provinces.
Unlike rivals, which focused on Shanghai and Beijing, its trailblazing marketers pushed into the country's remote western provinces.
Cheung said looking forward, if land and labor costs in central and western provinces continue to rise rapidly, factories would be unwilling to relocate there due to their inferior logistics network.
The growth is mainly in the resource-rich western provinces.
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He said the official results show that Ahmadinejad more than doubled the 2005 showing for all conservative candidates in the western provinces of Luristan and Khuzestan, two majority-Arab districts that have heavily favored reformist candidates in previous races.
The lopsided distribution of the 105 seats reflects a Canada that no longer exists: the maritime provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick each have 10 senators despite having much smaller populations than the four western provinces, which each have six.
Many are now living in Iraq's western Anbar and northern Duhok provinces.
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The other, Ebrahim Rasool, was in charge of one of the best-performing provinces, the Western Cape, but had long been scrapping with the party's local bosses.
Of South Africa's nine provinces, only the Western Cape returned a National majority in 1994.
But as China's coastal provinces -- which were first opened for Western-style economic reform in 1979 -- grow more expensive, more companies are moving factories into rural areas, sparking a new wave of development and giving workers more options closer to home.
But if the prime minister is to win the third term he covets, the Liberals must do better in the Atlantic provinces, since they face a revitalised opposition in Ontario and western Canada.
The Czech Republic consists of the ancient provinces of Bohemia and Moravia, with a mountainous rim on its western border with Germany.
In the event Mr Harper consolidated the Conservatives' solid western base of Alberta oilmen and Saskatchewan farmers, and picked up seats in suburban Ontario and the Maritime provinces.
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