On The Front Line In China: An Illinois Mayor’s Search For Investment
- Monday, September 26, 2011, 2:31
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Rockford may have the highest unemployment in Illinois but it has at least one thing going for it: friends in China, the world’s fastest-growing major economy. The city has attracted investment from China’s Wanxiang Group, one of the country’s largest non-government-controlled conglomerates. Wanxiang’s chairman Lu Guanqiu ranked no. 21 on our new 2011 Forbes China Rich List with wealth of $3.1 billion.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/russellflannery/2011/09/26/on-the-front-line-in-china-an-illinois-mayors-search-for-investment/