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LOS ANGELES - "I started out on the line just a year ago as an hourly worker, same as everybody else," said Kris Esposito, the newly minted production manager of the bus chassis section of China's new BYD electric bus factory in Lancaster, California.

"But BYD rewards you for hard work and using your initiative. The opportunities for advancement here are excellent," he told Xinhua News Agency in an interview recently.