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. The workers at Northern Heavy Industries in north-eastern Shenyang city are putting together tunnel-boring machines.
Such a scene is what people may think of 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.
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