China's latest building binge: the education factory
Today, a new kind of project is blooming in China's countryside: the vocational education park. Cities around China are carving out tracts of land for school parks - dubbed "education factories" - designed to train hundreds of thousands of students. Fuelling their drive are generous government subsidies and targets to increase the number of skilled workers, part of Beijing's push to redirect China's economy away from its investment-led past toward a more innovative, high-tech future.
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