A worker operates machinery at a steel refinery in Liaoning province, once the country's fastest-growing region but now an economic laggard. Photo: Xinhua A worker operates machinery at a steel refinery in Liaoning province, once the country's fastest-growing region but now an economic laggard. Photo: Xinhua
A worker operates machinery at a steel refinery in Liaoning province, once the country's fastest-growing region but now an economic laggard. Photo: Xinhua
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China's once-booming rust belt now stuck in reverse amid economic slowdown

Nation's economic slowdown has left the northeast's industries reeling

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Updated: 3:19am, 26 Aug, 2015

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A worker operates machinery at a steel refinery in Liaoning province, once the country's fastest-growing region but now an economic laggard. Photo: Xinhua A worker operates machinery at a steel refinery in Liaoning province, once the country's fastest-growing region but now an economic laggard. Photo: Xinhua
A worker operates machinery at a steel refinery in Liaoning province, once the country's fastest-growing region but now an economic laggard. Photo: Xinhua
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