The East Is Rising

Meet the 29 Chinese cities powering global growth.

BY ELIAS GROLL | SEPT/OCT 2012

Chengdu: According to China Daily, Chengdu will soon produce 70 percent of Apple's iPads -- some 40 million tablets. Here, Chengdu factory workers labor on a cell-phone production line in February 2009. The global financial crisis threatened China's employment balance as demand for export products dropped, but demand has picked up once again.

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Elias Groll is an editorial assistant at Foreign Policy.