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...The line constituted a key part of China’s efforts to entice electronics-makers to move their manufacturing away from China’s coastal provinces to the Chinese inland, where cities are served by the new train...
...However the only big change made was shifting production inland, where wages are still lower than in China’s more developed coastal provinces....
...It’s a more turbulent tale at the second motoring business that’s sparked our interest: Britain’s 115-year-old roadside recovery group the AA or, as one adviser poetically calls it, “a business towing an...
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on February 19, 2019. ©2019 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...This is a front-line base for China’s resources,” Mr Li said proudly....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on March 28 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Lines of battered RVs line certain streets in places such as Mountain View, where the courts have said they can park for 72 hours at a time....
...The rest involve lower risk, easier to complete projects, such as electricity transmission lines....
...Steven Williams, chief executive of Canada’s Suncor Energy, told analysts last month: “We now have the ability to supply our Montreal refinery with a full slate of inland crude.”...
...American Commercial Lines, the barge builder and operator, is weighing a sale that is expected to value it at more than $1bn, underscoring the demand for companies that service US infrastructure needs....
...Although Seville sits 50 miles inland, it has an old port on the River Guadalquivir, and that is where we head....
...Most jia pu fail to record the full names of wives or daughters, in effect limiting most searches to the father’s line....
...“The worst period is Chinese New Year when former farmers go back to inland to visit their families....
...As the price differential between inland and coastal oil markets narrows, railways and logistics companies are reporting falling traffic on the lines connecting oilfields to refineries....
...In the long run, moving the assembly lines will help it keep wage costs down....
...The ramp-up of the Zhengzhou plant since 2010 is part of Foxconn’s gradual shift of its manufacturing operation to China’s inland provinces, a strategy which the company hoped could address rising labour...
...Magellan is spending $375m to reverse a pipeline to carry 225,000 b/d from west Texas to coastal Houston and is contemplating another 278,000 b/d line in the same direction....
...Thousands of young Chinese workers still line up to work for the company, which pays better than many similar employers....
...The Spanish region of Catalonia asked for a central government credit line....
...A French fishing boat that responded to the emergency has been towing the vessel, but the Seychelles government confirmed that two Seychelles Port Authority tugs had reached the ship to speed up the towing...
...Those in the firing line include Hewlett-Packard, Nokia, Motorola and Sony....
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...The group also stepped up its drive to expand production in inland provinces....
...“This is going to cause inventories to rebalance and prices to realign between inland and coastal locations.”...
...The Irish tax authorities and our own beloved Inland Revenue still seem to be labouring under the misapprehension that I’m residing in their particular parts of these great islands....
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