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Beijing’s outstripping of competitors in global manufacturing is well documented. The ostensively communist-ruled country industrialised at a rapid pace in the 20th century, growing to rival the dominance of the US and former USSR for industrial output.<\/p>\n
The scale of China’s manufacturing might have been broken down, making clear the stunning gulf in capacity between China and the rest of the world.<\/p>\n
Among figures and statistics collected by a China-based journalist perhaps the most striking is that China has already built enough car factories to produce every vehicle sold domestically as well as in European and US markets.<\/p>\n
Similarly, Chinese companies produce enough solar panels to meet the world’s needs, according to Keith Bradsher of the New York Times.<\/p>\n
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