Foshan: Foshan, which means "Buddha Mountain," is aiming for annual industrial output of $470 billion -- about Iran's entire GDP -- by 2015. As China's ceramics capital, Foshan produces some 70 percent of the country's ceramic products (read: toilets), and a recently opened factory promises to make the city one of the world's largest spandex producers. Above, a display of local wares on view in Foshan.

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