The Shanghai plant's annual capacity is 2.6 million batteries, less than a Jiangsu Province plant that can produce 8 million units and a plant being built in Chongqing with a capacity for 6 million batteries annually.

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That's nearly half the population, who must be resettled before the winter rainy season if they are to plant the single annual rice crop.

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In the 1980s, for example, he built a polyester plant with an annual capacity of 40, 000 tons at a time when that was equivalent to India's entire annual consumption.

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Foxconn chairman Terry Guo said in 2010 the Chengdu plant plans to achieve an annual output of 100 million iPads by 2013 and recruit 500, 000 workers by 2015.

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It is equivalent to the quantity of fresh water proposed to be imported from Turkey and the total annual production capacity of a major seawater desalination plant.

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The group released its annual report naming the 10 largest sources of power plant mercury pollution.

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Hyundai's new plant near Madras in southern India has an annual capacity of 120, 000 cars - quite large for a foreign auto maker and a new one at that.

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Activity at the plant has already dipped below the 400, 000 annual hours of work needed to sustain an economical rate structure.

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After the new plant is up and fully running, Nissan is looking for annual sales of around 150, 000.

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