China's latest building binge: the education factory
Fuelling the drive are generous subsidies and need to increase number of skilled workers
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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