Liaoning Special: Looking to become nation's capital of steel, medicines
By Zhu Chengpei and Wu Yong | China Daily | Updated: 2011-03-11 07:58
Gang Rui, the Party secretary of the city of Benxi, in Liaoning province, doesn't have just one dream that inspires him to work harder every day, he's got several, one of which is building his city into the nation's capital of steel, medicines, and maple tree.
Gang said that, back at the start of the new China, Benxi was picked out as a key industrial city, but, after almost half a century of exploitation, its environment was seriously damaged and heavily polluted.
Now, however, he says that he takes pride in his city and the fact that it is on the nation's "Environmental Protection Model City" list.
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