| Zhejiang Province is located in China's Southeast coastal adjacent
to Shanghai, China largest city. Hangzhou is the capital. |
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| Zhejiang covers a total area of 101,800 square km with a total population
of 44.56 million. The province is noted for its picturesque scenery. |
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Zhejiang is famous for its abundance products and is widely known
as a "Land of fish and rice". It is also well-known for
its silk and tea. Agricultural products in Zhejiang include cotton,
rice, wheat, tea, etc. While the industries major in electronic products,
machinery, textile, foodstuff and high-tech commodities. There are
more than 100 thousand local companies and factories in Zhejiang,
recruiting about 1.3 million workforce. In additional, 0.5 million
skilled workers are being employed in 25 thousand foreign investment
companies.
Zhejiang is also well known for its mechanical manufacture such as
tool & die, mould & jig, and garment manufacturing. It is
also noted in its manpower exportation. Till now, about 20 thousand
various skilled workers has been provided to employer overseas. |
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| Zhejiang has been noted for the high level and complete nature of
its education. At present, there are some 148 out of 10,000 who have
educational level of college or university. The former Zhejiang University,
Hangzhou University, Zhejiang Agriculture University and Zhejiang
Medical University have been merged into the new Zhejiang University,
which is now the largest institution of higher learning in China with
most complete system of disciplines and departments. In 1998, a total
of 2.73 million workers, labor and farmers have attend and trained
at either the urban and rural cultural or technical schools. |