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| | Chinese in Russia's Maritime Region, Part 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | For example, in Ussuriysk, with a native population of about 100,000, the last large old-Soviet-style industrial enterprise — a refrigerator plant — closed down in 1996. |
 | | One can even claim that Ussuriysk by 1997 had become a "Chinese city" — in the same way that Mandalay, in central Burma, had become a "Chinese city" by 1994. |
 | | One can estimate the number of Chinese by late 2001 in Ussuriysk alone — including permanent traders, "traveling traders," family members, scrap metal dealers, criminals and illegals of all kinds — as between 6,000 and 8,000. |
| www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2002/1/17/145048.shtml (1187 words) |
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