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Article: Western China's Fruits Promise Economic Opportunity
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- January 4, 2002
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The abundant fruit resources inChina's vast western regions
promise immense opportunities for foreign investors, according to
economists here.
The western regions, including the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous
Region, the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, and Gansu and Shaanxi
provinces, enjoy ample sunshine and sharp differences in temperatures
between day and night, which provide favorable conditions for the
growth of fruits.
Take Shaanxi Province for instance, it now cultivates nearly
400,000 hectares of apple trees and its apple output accounts for one
fifth of the nation's total.
The Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region is the place of origin for
Chinese wolfberry and has a cultivation history of more ...