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The China International Industry Fair, opening in Shanghai, provided insights into the country's program to boost technological innovation and energy efficiency in an effort to pursue sustainable economic growth. From models of China's homegrown aircraft, to small robots and giant machine tools, exhibitors from home and abroad are showing the latest developments in equipment manufacturing at the Shanghai New International Expo Center in Pudong. The global financial crisis did not dampen exhibitors' enthusiasm: The number of booths rented this year increased 5.7 percent from the last fair, organizers said. Altogether, 1,869 companies are taking part in the five-day show, more than a quarter of them from overseas. "This year's event has become a grand gathering of exhibitors and professional buyers, equipment manufacturing firms, new and high technologies as well as market information," Shanghai Mayor Han Zheng said in an opening speech. Liu Tienan, deputy chief of the Nationa...

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