The New York Times reports about investments in China’s Far West:
At a conference this week, Chinese officials called the investment in western China a strategic move, designed to raise the living standards of the region’s people and shift growth away from China’s prosperous coastal areas.
The areas include Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, North China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region, Southwest China’s Tibet autonomous region, and Sichuan and Yunnan provinces.
via Spending for Stability in China’s Far West – NYTimes.com.
And not only the government is moving westwards. Also electronics manufacturer Foxconn – moves westwards, to Zhengzhou that is:
Foxconn and senior officials of Zhenzhou and Henan are working on the details of an agreement to build the plant, said a spokesman for the municipal government.
The first phase of the plant will measure 133 (!!) hectares.
The new plant is to employ 300,000 people in the long run. About 100,000 people are to be recruited in the near future, said a recruitment advertisement on the official website of Henan’s Hebi city.