China's two-pronged rose strategy
By Keith Bradsher The New York Times
Published: September 25, 2006
KUNMING, China Americans are used to buying mass-produced shoes, toys and microwave ovens from China. So why not roses?
That is the thinking behind an elaborate Chinese government effort to export cut flowers, aimed not just at developing a new business to take on the world but also at redeveloping the social and economic landscape here in southwestern China.
By placing the flower industry, along with several others, far from the coastal provinces that have enjoyed most of the nation's prosperity, Beijing officials hope to take advantage of millions of inexpensive, isolated workers to narrow the income gap between rich city dwellers and unemployed farmers.
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Sunday, October 22, 2006
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