This victory led to strikes at two other Honda factories in Guangdong and Wuhan provinces.
One project in Wuhan attracted the attention of China's state-run media because it was 70% empty.
For example, the city government in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, has recently built a new exhibition hall.
President is mulling a smaller facility near its food processing facilities in Wuhan in electricity-starved Hubei province.
From Wuhan to Chongqing, Chengdu to Hangzhou, second tier cities are emerging as hubs for both international and domestic executives.
The high-speed Guangzhou-Wuhan service, which opened in December, cuts the 660-mile (1, 070km) journey from 11 hours to three.
It'll mean making deep changes to old industries like Wuhan Iron and Steel, reforming China's giant state-owned enterprises.
Though still interested in Wuhan, Wharf is now focusing on property development in Shanghai, Beijing and other major cities.
So to replace Wuhan's grimy old industries, the city is doing its best to encourage new, higher-tech, innovative firms.
Along part of Wuhan's river frontage you can see the aim taking shape.
Last year, a self-driving car developed by China's National University of Defense Technology traveled 177 miles from Changsha to Wuhan.
The cities of Chongqing, Wuhan and Zhengzhou, for instance, have allowed first-home buyers to borrow more from government-sponsored savings funds.
For example, Foxconn announced it was expanding operations to inland areas near Chengdu, Wuhan, and Zhengzhou, away from its coastal base.
Beijing officials took their time in granting approvals for the Wuhan projects.
Urbanisation will continue to drive China forward, moving people from the countryside to the cities like Wuhan where they can earn more.
Wuhan is copying the formula that's been successful in places like Shanghai.
Analysts are less optimistic about the earnings prospects of Wuhan Steel, where they expect to see a 25% dip in profits this year.
For instance, officials in Wuhan, an industrial city, have given tax breaks to anybody who buys cars made in the local car plant.
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Officials in Wuhan, and elsewhere, have been keeping quiet about the orgy of violence against Manchus that accompanied the upheaval (see article).
But as we finally trundled into Wuhan, overtaken by yet another sleek-nosed high-speed train, I asked a fellow traveller about China's upcoming leadership changes.
Bank and financial reforms are needed, changes to the way governments in places like Wuhan earn their revenues, and better provision of healthcare and pensions.
Kejian also focuses on second-tier Chinese cities such as Wuhan, Chengdu and Shijiazhuang, leaving the biggest markets Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou to the global leaders.
The growth is, in large part, down to China's relentless drive to urbanise, which has now shifted from the coastal cities to inland areas like Wuhan.
China is also hosting the Global Botanic Gardens Congress in Wuhan this month, where the BGCI will launch a survey of garden collections of threatened species.
Such is liquidity in this market that a cash-strapped hotel in the central city of Wuhan reportedly decided to use the coupons as part-payment for a decorating job.
On a final note, train attendants grabbed microphones to stage their own gala for passengers travelling from Wuhan to Shiyan in central Hubei province on New Year's Eve.
"Within a year, we got a grip on the market and soon opened up representative offices in Guangzhou, Shanghai, Wuhan and Shenyang, " says Mickey's Corner general manager William Chang.
He grew up in the villages outside the city of Wuhan, and left school as a teen-ager for a job walking the tracks with a hammer and a gauge.
The two countries have held three rounds of talks since the row erupted, Japan's Kyodo news agency reports, with the latest taking place in Wuhan in China on Sunday and Monday.
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