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Not just boring machines: China’s former industrial hub Liaoning goes clean to regain shine
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Dalian, a port city in Liaoning, is home to Golden Pebble Beach National Tourist Resort, which aims to receive more than 10 million tourists by 2025.
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SHENYANG/DALIAN – In a hangar-like facility, workers in red helmets and blue and white uniforms are welding metal parts against a backdrop of massive cylindrical objects. These workers at Northern Heavy Industries in north-eastern Shenyang city are putting together tunnel-boring machines.
Such a scene may be what people have in mind when they think of Liaoning, China’s heavy industry hub and the most prosperous of its three north-eastern provinces. Before China’s Reform and Opening in 1978, Liaoning did a lot of the heavy-lifting in driving China’s growth with its heavy industries, coal and iron ore.
