Local food need not be organic, but buying direct from small farmers short-circuits industrial production and distribution systems in the same way that buying organic used to.

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People steal from the cheap-food shops of the Public Distribution System (PDS) on an industrial scale.

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The distribution centers will be located in low-cost industrial areas.

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Natural gas distribution means the distribution pipelines and metering and regulating equipment that are operated by a Local Distribution Company (LDC) to provide natural gas to residential, commercial, and industrial customers.

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If acquiring overseas companies to gain access to technology, marketing and distribution channels in international markets is such an attractive proposition, why has it taken so long for industrial firms in China to venture abroad?

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