China grows a great deal of cotton, mostly in the western areas.

中国种植大量棉花，主要在西部地区。

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The western areas have abundant natural resources with huge potential market and important strategic location.

西部地区自然资源丰富，市场潜力大，战略位置重要。

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To avoid the ruin of the environment in the west, strict supervision of economic development and construction in the western areas is necessary.

为了避免破坏西部环境，有必要对西部地区的经济开发与建设进行严格监督。

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This wet air is then carried by trade winds to the normally rainy areas of the western Pacific, near the Equator.

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These areas include the Alps in Italy and Switzerland, the coastal mountains of western Canada, and the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountains in the United States.

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Authorities say heavy digging equipment is headed to the worst-hit areas of western Java, but time is running out for scores buried under collapsed buildings and landslides.

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Authorities evacuated 500 people in the western and southern areas of the metropolitan area as the storm raged, Timerman said.

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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.

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It puts at risk an important goal for Clinton's second term: to lay the groundwork for creating free-trade areas in the Western Hemisphere and the Pacific.

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