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To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (559)	3/2/2004 11:37:49 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 1483

Like Japan in the 1980's, China Poses Big Economic Challenge By KEITH BRADSHER Published: March 2, 2004 GUANGZHOU, China — When Japan, at the zenith of its economic power, built a huge airport in Osaka in the late 1980's, the project set off a seven-year trade battle with the United States over the nearly complete exclusion of non-Japanese companies. China, Japan's heir as Asia's rising star, is now completing its own immense airport here in Guangzhou, the sprawling commercial center of affluent southeastern China. But the Chinese are going about it differently. American companies designed the terminal, its air-conditioning system and the flight information system. A German company engineered the vaulting roof, a Danish company produced the boarding gates and a Dutch company, the check-in counters. Chinese women in broad-brimmed straw hats wield shovels and brooms across from a modern air-traffic-control tower designed by a company from Singapore.