Puqi

— ONE of the problems in China’s economy today is: In the past decade many places built industries to utilize local raw materials or supply local markets with goods. But often these plants were technically backward, and the goods they produced were of poor quality, or even unsalable. This was once true of the Xianning district, consisting of seven counties south of the Changjiang (Yangtze) River in Hubei province.[…] Poor management was the problem in a local electrical goods factory operated by Puqi county.