Li hails Hunan's growth as manufacturing center

In Hengyang, industrial transfers yield 700,000 new jobs a year

Premier Li Keqiang called for Central China's Hunan province to play a leading role in accepting industrial transfers from eastern regions, as the manufacturing sector moves from the east of the country to the lower-cost inland.

During his two-day trip to the province, which ended on Tuesday, Li visited an industrial park and some villages in the city of Hengyang before inspecting an automobile component factory, a heavy machinery producer and a consumer-to-consumer online service provider in the provincial capital of Changsha.