Nantong Special: Nantong bridges path to prosperity
By Qian Yanfeng and Song Wenwei | China Daily | Updated: 2009-08-21 08:05
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A bird's eye view of Nantong. |
Nantong is known in modern Chinese history as one of the first cities to have a national industry, thanks to Zhang Jian, a local educator and industrialist who founded the first modern cotton mill in 1899 and built a business empire then rarely seen in the country.
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