Small countries with no natual resources usually have to fight harder than most to survive. Singapore has taken a carefully-planned approach to economic development- a global warehousing and distribution centre for the Asia-Pacific region. Along with these, Singapore's entrepot trade in rubber, petroleum products, spices, timber, manufactured goods and machinery has grown over the decades. In addition, Singapore is the major shipbuilding, ship-repair and oil-rig building centre in South East Asia. Although Singapore has no …showed first 75 words of 1231 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1231 total…of the wonderful prosperity of the south and eastern provinces have reached the more isolated-and less prosperous-interior provinces. Those current farmers who would travel in order to be richer are often stopped at the borders of industrial growth and are forced to turn back. Everyone in China seems to want a share, but the industrial provinces can physically support no more drain on their existing housing and infrastructures, and they are finding themselves unable to