""Having real snow is a massive, unbeatable advantage, and it is an efficient way to lift the local economy－especially in rust belt areas in Northeast China," she said.

com plans to invest more than 20 billion yuan ($3.1 billion) in the "rust belt" Northeast China over the next three years.

The old industrial cluster located in southeast Chicago recorded the glorious days of the city's manufacturing industry, but at the same time witnessed the far-flung decline of the country's "Rust Belt".

Xu added that Yangpu, which is one of China's first national heritage protection demonstration areas, has been striving to transform the former "industrial rust belt" into a "vibrant cultural show belt".

In 2021, over 210 billion yuan from the coordination mechanism went to the central and western regions as well as the northeastern "rust belt" provinces, as a greying population weighs on their pension payments and growing labor outflows squeeze pension income.

Seeing that many bikes had been dumped and left to rust, he recalled long lines of students walking considerable distances from their villages to reach schools in rural areas of Myanmar.

"The plantation exports El Salvador's high-end "Pacamara Honey" variety around the globe, as part of the country's push to cater to the gourmet coffee market following the industry's recovery from coffee rust, a blight that hit Central America at the start of the decade.

So far, WW-5, a variety of wheat introduced during the year 2017-18, has shown prominent features of rust and drought resistance, as well as a high yield.

Some questions, such as those about exterior rust or outside lights failing, were dropped from the survey because they don't happen very often anymore, he said.

As awareness of trademark creation and application grows, trademark mortgages have become a popular financing tool for enterprises in Shenyang, Liaoning, one of the three "Rust Belt" provinces in China's northeastern region, according to Liu Xiaoguang, an official with the local trademark supervision and administration office.

Bad debts fall in high-growth regionsBanks' bad debts ratio declined in the economically affluent regions that witnessed rapid growth in the past few years, while debt problems swelled in northeastern rust belt regions, according to statistics.

The first private bank in China's rust belt, an industrial area in the northeast, went into operation Tuesday.

The new varieties have strong resistance against yellow rust — a destructive crop disease widespread in Pakistan — and are expected to boost local wheat output by a large margin, said He Zhonghu, director of the China-Pakistan Joint Wheat Molecular Breeding International Lab.