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Article: Gansu Province
- Article from:
- The China Business Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
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A province in China's poor interior sets its sights on foreign trade and investment
Most of sparsely populated Gansu Province sits between 1,000 and 3,000 meters above sea level. With more than 30 percent of its area covered by grassland, Gansu is a rural, agricultural province as well as the country's second-largest producer of traditional Chinese medicines, with over 9,500 types in production, according to the Gansu Development Planning Commission. It is also one of China's five bases of animal husbandry.
Gansu's agricultural industry produces primarily melons, vegetables, and the beer ingredients hops and barley. The agricultural centers are located in eastern Gansu, the Yellow River ...