To please officials in the city of Haicheng, close to Xiyang Village, Mr Zhou abandoned a plan to build a steel factory in the southern port of Beihai, where there would be ready access to ore shipped from Australia.
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In the past, Hakuta might find himself carrying a load of stainless-steel pipes from a factory in Tokyo's suburbs to Nagoya, only to return home empty-handed.
Eximbank loans made in 1985 for several meat-processing plants, copper-processing facilities, a turnkey chemical complex, a color-television tube plant, a glass funnel facility, a process computer used in steel manufacturing, and a tractor factory remain unpaid.
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For example, in 1998 a strike occurred at a North Korean Iron and Steel factory following the brutal execution of several factory managers.
When ArcelorMittal, a steel giant, announced the closure of part of a factory at Gandrange in eastern France earlier this year, Mr Sarkozy rushed to the scene with promises to keep the plant alive even if it meant investing state money.
Tata had an easier time buying Jaguar, and even Corus, the former British Steel, than opening a factory in his own country.
Since then the north-east has seen strikes most shockingly, in July 2009, a protest involving thousands of workers at a steel plant in Tonghua, in Jilin province, who beat to death a manager because of moves to privatise the factory.
He'd be squeezed against scores of other swine, hoofing a steel grate floor, while growing fatter and fatter on a factory farm.
The steel factory tour generated no pictures, but his stops at a library and an electronics research facility in Jagang Province the day before did.
His book is an engaging reminder that, cyber-Utopianism aside, the internet is as much a thing of flesh and steel as any industrial-age lumber mill or factory.
Here we have a new factory that will bring good jobs to a struggling locale, and yet the Steel Caucus has the temerity to claim that the deal will threaten American jobs.
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