the problems facing the tiexi industrial zone at the present time is the aging of its plants and uipmentquite a lot of it is old and is still in use after more than 20 years. actually, some of this equipment has been used for more than 30 years. the second problem ithat most of the factories in the region make everything they need in-house. this inefficient use of resources has resulted in many factories operating in the red. narrator: the shenyang number one machine tool works in tiexi is one such operation. its long history goes back to 1935, when manchuria was occupied by japan. the japanese established the region as a base of manufacturing for export to japan. they built a railroad and factories. the shenyang number one machine tool works began as the mitsubishi machines company. after the 1949 communist revolution, the infrastructure here secured shenyang's continuing role as a base of industry. capital, equipment and technical assistance flowed from the chinese central government and the soviet union. it was the era of the iron rice bowl. under the planned economy, state-owned ente

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