The provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Anhui are bracing for severe power shortages this summer.
But China's own brands - like Anhui-based Geely and Zhejiang-based Chery - are gaining ground.
It's a rather nondescript city, the capital of Anhui province in the rice belt of central China.
The man who refused to pay his tax bill was from neighbouring Anhui province, according to official media.
Anhui Jianghuai Automobile rose by the day's 10% limit in Shanghai, while FAW Car gained 2% in Shenzhen.
Xinhua said six cases have been confirmed in Shanghai, four in Jiangsu, three in Zhejiang and one in Anhui.
The latest cases were seen in the Jiangsu province while the earlier cases were in the Shanghai and Anhui provinces.
Anhui Expressway and Shenzhen Expressway, other H share road operators, recently reported turnover last year grew 22% and 32% respectively.
Yuan Liya, a 22-year-old from Anhui, fell to her death on 3 May from a mall in Fengtai district in Beijing.
The human cases of H7N9 have all occurred in eastern China, in Shanghai and its neighbouring provinces of Anhui and Zhejiang.
While both men who died were in Shanghai, the third victim was reported in Chuzhou in the eastern province of Anhui.
Fu Wah has aspirations beyond Beijing: this year it agreed to develop a helicopter landing facility in Ninguo in Anhui Province.
Rural reforms began in late 1978 in the central province of Anhui even as the party was holding its meetings in Beijing.
Migrant workers are everywhere: girls from Anhui serve in Urumqi restaurants, and tough, tiny Hunanese put up pylons high in mountain passes.
Chery rose up in Wuhu, an industrial city of about 700, 000 in China's impoverished and mountainous Anhui province, a five-hour drive from Shanghai.
The first three patients to be identified are an 87-year-old man and a 27-year-old man from Shanghai, and a 35-year-old housewife from Anhui.
In 2011 it opened a food processing plant in Anhui Province and built a research and development center and corporate offices in Shanghai.
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One of these is the 8km walk from Guankeng to Lingjiao, two tiny villages located further north in the mountains near the Jiangxi-Anhui border.
Over the last month, 43 people from Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces and Shanghai have been diagnosed with the new H7N9 strain of bird flu.
Zotye, a small Zhejiang province-based automaker also reportedly has an electric vehicle ready for sale, as do Chery of Anhui Province and Lifan of Chongqing.
This route takes you through some stunning scenery including the Unesco World Heritage site Huangshan, ancient villages in Anhui and the charming canal towns of Suzhou.
They recruited Anhui native Yin Tongyao, an executive at Volkswagen's Chinese joint venture, to launch the operation, using tools purchased from the outdated factories of established manufacturers.
Three more cases were recorded on Sunday - two in Shanghai and one in Anhui - raising the tally to 21, with six dead, The Beijing News reports.
There was a bit of good news for Navistar Wednesday, however: its joint venture with Chinese truck maker Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Co. has been approved by the Chinese government.
The unique water quality and mild climate of Jing County in Anhui Province in eastern China are two of the key ingredients in the craft of making Xuan paper that thrives there.
WHO's China representative, Hans Troedsson, expressed concern about the unusual concentration of cases in Anhui, and about the occurrence of pulmonary and neurological symptoms not typically seen with hand, foot and mouth disease.
Capsulizing the new mood, the website of the Global Times newspaper on Wednesday displayed a photo of workers at a power supply company in eastern Anhui province writing "cut down waste" slogans on balloons.
Mr Sha, the company's best manager, who ran a rubber-parts factory in the mountains of Anhui province in central China, secretly set up a rival plant down the valley which he financed by siphoning money from the Asimco joint venture.
Turning to domestic news, the Beijing News says a woman, surnamed Ma, has been arrested for "spreading rumours" about a female migrant worker from Anhui province, surnamed Ms Yuan, who was found dead outside a wholesale market building in Beijing's Fengtai district last Friday.
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