'World factory' upgraded by high-tech, originality

GUANGZHOU — An unparalleled manufacturing enterprise and foreign trade volume bestowed the title "world factory "to Dongguan in South China's Guangdong province.

As the 24th Chinese city whose GDP has surpassed 1 trillion yuan ($139.4 billion), Dongguan has been forging ahead with high-tech, new energy and originality, rather than its stereotype as a massive contract factory for mobile phones and garments.

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