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The World This Weekend13/10/2013British trade missions to China

Shaun Ley reports from Shanghai and Beijing for BBC Radio 4

  • Shaun Ley at Shanghai's new free trade zone. It's 11 square miles in size, but no one is yet sure what will happen within it
  • Shanghai
  • Rex Xu who manufactures socks, including for the British Army
  • A special giant display sock. Hua Zhong socks estimate that the profit on a pair of socks is only one US cent.
  • Rex Xu supplies many armies around the world, including the British
  • New machinery at Hua Zhong Socks. Every machine used to require its own operator. Now one person supervises nine machines.
  • Rex Xu is visited by representatives of the military in Singapore, here to discuss a new order for socks.
  • Professor Chen Bo at Shanghai University of Economics & Finance.
  • China's future
  • Knitter in Shanghai
  • The iconic TV mast, one of the landmarks of Shanghai's modern development in the 1980s
  • Banner showing how the Shanghai campus of Wellington College will mirror the Berkshire original
  • Bentley's dealership in Beijing has been its best-performing in the world for three years running.
  • Aquatic centre, Shanghai. Pupils from the newly constructed Wellington College will be able to use facilities.
  • Shanghai's free trade zone has been open for just a fortnight. Chinese people want to know what it will mean for them

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