A worker walks past coal piles at a coal coking plant in Yuncheng, Shanxi province, one of China’s heavily industrial regions in the North. Photo: Reuters A worker walks past coal piles at a coal coking plant in Yuncheng, Shanxi province, one of China’s heavily industrial regions in the North. Photo: Reuters
A worker walks past coal piles at a coal coking plant in Yuncheng, Shanxi province, one of China’s heavily industrial regions in the North. Photo: Reuters
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China's North-South economic divide is growing, away from the glare of the US trade war

  • China’s economic centre of gravity is shifting to the southern part of the country, home to hi-tech industries and coastal ports
  • Growing divide adds to economic pressure of trade war with the US and general slowdown in China

Topic |   China economy
Sidney Leng
Sidney Leng

Updated: 8:30pm, 22 Jun, 2019

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A worker walks past coal piles at a coal coking plant in Yuncheng, Shanxi province, one of China’s heavily industrial regions in the North. Photo: Reuters A worker walks past coal piles at a coal coking plant in Yuncheng, Shanxi province, one of China’s heavily industrial regions in the North. Photo: Reuters
A worker walks past coal piles at a coal coking plant in Yuncheng, Shanxi province, one of China’s heavily industrial regions in the North. Photo: Reuters
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