Big Qingdao names set to get bigger
By Ju Chuanjiang and Guo Xin | China Daily | Updated: 2008-05-01 07:34
Yan Qijun (second from left), secretary of Qingdao Municipal Committee of the CPC, and Xia Geng (second from right), mayor of Qingdao and chairman of Sailing Committee (Qingdao) of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the 29 Olympiad, set out walking with 10,000 locals to mark the 100-day countdown celebration. Ju Chuanjiang |
From a modest beginning in the 1980s, Qingdao on the coast of east China's Shandong province is now among cities with most well-known brand names in the nation - and is setting the bar higher with plans to have three to five world-famous products by 2010.
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