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In China’s Stimulus Spending, Seeds of a Surge

The global economic downturn, and efforts to reverse it, will probably make China an even stronger economic competitor than it was before the crisis.

One factor:

Guangdong province alone, here in southeastern China, is quadrupling its vocational training program this year to teach four million workers engaged in three-month or six-month programs.

The main comparable program in the United States, under the Workforce Investment Act, has been training fewer than 250,000 a year, althoughPresident Obama’s stimulus program provides funding that could double the number of American workers in training programs.

The Gulf states won't do too badly either.