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China's latest building binge: the education factory

Fuelling the drive are generous subsidies and need to increase number of skilled workers

Published Thu, Oct 15, 2015 · 09:50 PM

    Guiyang, China

    THREE decades ago, Chinese cities began turning rural land into industrial parks to attract foreign investors. Today, a new kind of project is blooming in China's countryside: the vocational education park.

    Cities around China are carving out tracts of land for school parks - dubbed "education factories" - designed to train hundreds of thousands of students.

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