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China to double textile jobs in cotton heartland

19/03/2014

The Chinese government plans to boost the number of textile jobs in the far Western state of Xinjiang from 200,000 to 1 million by 2020, according to state newspaper the China Daily.   It has deemed that investment in the sector might help to stabilise the area which has been beset by unrest in recent years. Xinjiang is home to the Muslim Uighur...

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