According to the Zhoukou government, once both phases are completed, the factory will offer about 30,000 jobs and the annual output will be more than 3.1 billion yuan. An official of the Chuanhui district, where the factory is located, said that the district established a special command center to facilitate the project, and relevant work, including topographic surveys and risk assessments, finished within two months, media outlet xxcb.cn reported.

Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.

OK, you are the captain (partner opened with a limit bid).

“There are at least hundreds of [Chinese] squid boats. It used to be just one or two dots of green, but now you see a complete line of green,” said Lai Wen-Chi, chief of the Fisheries and Husbandry Section of the Lienchiang county government, which oversees Matsu. Lai said vessels, which Taiwan officials say convey fishermen mostly from Fujian province, have surged in number in the past two years, with this year being the worst.… Officials have not raised the issue of the green lights, said Wang Chung Ming, deputy head of Lienchiang county, because the impact would be “very limited.”