Employees Manufacture Fiberglass

CHENGDU, CHINA - MARCH 16: (CHINA OUT) Workers pick glass fragments used to produce fiberglass at a fiberglass factory March 16, 2005 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China. Premier Wen Jiabao has specifically targeted the widening gap between the east and west regions of China in economic and social development, as he forecast economic growth of eight percent this year to the parliament. The GDP of the western region has risen to 2,295.5 billion yuan (US $277 billion), but its ratio in the national total dropped to 16.9 percent. The Chinese government is seeking ways to boost the development of the region, with agricultural taxes initially to be scrapped in the west next year. China will also spend 13.78 percent more in budgets on beefing up weak links in west social development, including education, science and technology, and health in 2005, according to a report on the central and local budgets. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)