Luoshe town, a small town in East China s Zhejiang Province, produces more than 50,000 pianos a year, accounting for one-seventh of China s total piano production. Pianos made here are exported to more than 20 countries and regions including Germany, the US, France, Thailand and Russia.
A few months before the U.S.-China trade war started in July 2018, local media coverage of President Xi Jinping was focused on his efforts to rally the country s top scientists and engineers to pursue breakthroughs in core technologies, as tensions simmered between Beijing and Washington.
Yangtze Memory Technologies Co faces pressure amid reports that the US plans to ban sales of semiconductor-manufacturing gear to advanced memory chip makers in China.