NINGXIA, an autonomous region in China’s north-west, is home to 6.3m people. About a third of them are Muslims, descendants of travellers along the Silk Road. The region is keen to revive the kind of trade networks that created its unique ethnic mix, so that it can diversify an economy which relies too much on coal, metals and chemicals.
China | Internal trade
It’s a continent, actually
China’s external imbalances are as nothing compared with its internal ones
|HONG KONG AND YINCHUAN
This article appeared in the China section of the print edition under the headline "It’s a continent, actually"
China February 8th 2014
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