Industry in China (22 images)

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Electronics, clothes, toys: China produces for the whole world. It's now a giant craving for energy, who doesn't care about pollution.
  • A worker takes newly-molded bath ducks out of the oven, in a factory in Fengxiang, near Shanghai, China, on October 30, 2008. Although Chinese authorities predict that 2009 will be a tough year, they are ready to do all that is takes to keep China's growth ''around 8%''. Beijing government announced a 450 billion euros investment plan until 2010 to boost Chinese economoy. ''We could take new measures (...) to prevent any economical downturn'' said Premier Wen Jiabao in Davos 2009 economy forum. Photo by Lucas Schifres/Pictobank

  • A worker takes newly-molded bath ducks out of the oven, in a factory in Fengxiang, near Shanghai, China, on October 30, 2008. Although Chinese authorities predict that 2009 will be a tough year, they are ready to do all that is takes to keep China's growth ''around 8%''. Beijing government announced a 450 billion euros investment plan until 2010 to boost Chinese economoy. ''We could take new measures (...) to prevent any economical downturn'' said Premier Wen Jiabao in Davos 2009 economy forum. Photo by Lucas Schifres/Pictobank

  • Steel workers in a steel factory in Huashi, near Jiangyin, Jiangsu province, China, on June 27, 2009. Photo by Lucas Schifres/Pictobank

  • A coal miner stands in Yangchangwan coal mine, part of Shenhua group, in Ning Dong, near Yinchuan, Ningxia province, China, Monday, July 10, 2006. China Shenhua Energy is planning the world's biggest share sale by a coal mining company, hoping to raise as much as $6.3 billion to expand pits and delivery networks as demand for the fuel surges. Photo by Servais Mont/Pictobank

  • A worker checks the transportation of coal on a conveyor belt out of Lingxin mine, part of Shenhua group, near Yinchuan, Ningxia province, China, on July 11, 2006. China Shenhua Energy is planning the world's biggest share sale by a coal mining company, hoping to raise as much as $6.3 billion to expand pits and delivery networks as demand for the fuel surges. Photo by Servais Mont/Pictobank

  • Workers attach steel rods on a crane to lift something on China World Tower 3 building's construction site in Beijing, China, Monday, August 21, 2006. Photo by Servais Mont/Pictobank

  • China National Petroleum Corp.'s 'nodding donkeys' oil pumps during a storm in Daqing, Heilongjiang province, China, on July 13, 2006. China National Petroleum Corp is the mother company of PetroChina. Photo by Servais Mont/Pictobank

  • China National Petroleum Corp.'s 'nodding donkeys' oil pumps during a storm in Daqing, Heilongjiang province, China, on July 13, 2006. China National Petroleum Corp is the mother company of PetroChina. Photo by Servais Mont/Pictobank

  • A CNPC 'nodding donkey' oil pump at sunset in an oilfield outside Daqing, Heilongjiang province, China, on July 13, 2006. China National Petroleum Corp is the mother company of PetroChina. Photo by Servais Mont/Pictobank

  • Children play in the middle of CNPC oil pipes in a residential complex in Daqing, Heilongjiang province, China, on July 14, 2006. China National Petroleum Corp is the mother company of PetroChina. Photo by Servais Mont/Pictobank

  • Workers Guo Xianwang (left) and Wang Jiaxiang (right) by the 3AW section of the OBG of Self-Anchored Suspension (SAS) bridge outside the workshops of Shanghai Zhenhua Port Machinery Co. Ltd. (ZPMC), on Changxing Island, Shanghai, on January 12, 2009. Photo by Lucas Schifres/Pictobank

  • Workers work on OBG 4BW standing on the trial assembly of Self-Anchored Suspension (SAS) bridge outside the workshops of Shanghai Zhenhua Port Machinery Co. Ltd. (ZPMC), on Changxing Island, Shanghai, on September 24, 2009. Photo by Lucas Schifres/Pictobank

  • A worker squats and welds, in ZPMC workshops, on Changxing Island, near Shanghai, on February 10, 2009. Photo by Lucas Schifres/Pictobank

  • Workers take their lunch break outside a steel factory in Zhongyang, Shanxi province, China, on November 16, 2007. China's rate of birth defects had risen from 104.9 per 10,000 births in 2001, to 145.5 in 2006, China's National Population and Family Planning Commission said in a report on its web site (www.chinapop.gov.cn). China's coal-rich northern province of Shanxi, a centre of noxious emissions from large-scale coke and chemical industries, had the highest rate of birth defects, Xinhua news agency said. Photo by Lucas Schifres/Pictobank

  • A factory plant stands near Yinchuan, Ningxia province, China, on July 11, 2006. Photo by Servais Mont/Pictobank

  • A worker welds steel in the workshops of a factory on Changxing Island, near Shanghai, on October 13, 2008. Baosteel, China's biggest steel producer, is to take over Ningbo Iron and Steel Group and Baotou Iron and Steel Group. The Chinese government is encouraging mergers in order to restructure the steel industry, according to the steel industry stimulus plan approved by the State Council in January. Photo by Servais Mont/Pictobank

  • A worker welds steel in the workshops of a factory on Changxing Island, near Shanghai, on October 13, 2008. Baosteel, China's biggest steel producer, is to take over Ningbo Iron and Steel Group and Baotou Iron and Steel Group. The Chinese government is encouraging mergers in order to restructure the steel industry, according to the steel industry stimulus plan approved by the State Council in January. Photo by Servais Mont/Pictobank

  • A worker grinds the lift 1 'WSD1 Skin E' of the tower of Self-Anchored Suspension (SAS) bridge in the workshops of Shanghai Zhenhua Port Machinery Co. Ltd. (ZPMC), on Changxing Island, Shanghai, on January 12, 2009. Photo by Lucas Schifres/Pictobank

  • A worker welds the lift 2 'WSD1 Skin C' of the tower of Self-Anchored Suspension (SAS) bridge in the workshops of Shanghai Zhenhua Port Machinery Co. Ltd. (ZPMC), on Changxing Island, Shanghai, on January 12, 2009. Photo by Lucas Schifres/Pictobank

  • 7 pages in weekly magazine Suomen Kuvalehti (Finland), on December 18, 2009. Photo by Lucas Schifres/Pictobank

  • 7 pages in weekly magazine Suomen Kuvalehti (Finland), on December 18, 2009. Photo by Lucas Schifres/Pictobank

  • 7 pages in weekly magazine Suomen Kuvalehti (Finland), on December 18, 2009. Photo by Lucas Schifres/Pictobank

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