Wuhu was forced to abandon its new policies four days after they were announced on February 9.

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Chery rose up in Wuhu, an industrial city of about 700, 000 in China's impoverished and mountainous Anhui province, a five-hour drive from Shanghai.

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In the late 1990s provincial leaders decided to quietly form an auto company in Wuhu, even though the Chinese government had issued restrictions that limited automaking to a handful of joint ventures between foreign automakers and state-owned Chinese partners.

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