11.   Since last year, Beijing has started building power plants, railroads and highways and improving telephone systems in inland regions.

12.   Some of those projects are intended to help bridge the widening gap in living standards between the prosperous coasts and still impoverished inland regions, which lag far behind.

13.   Sites are also being selected for plants in about a dozen other provinces, including inland regions where economic development typically lags behind coastal areas.

14.   Some of those projects are intended to help bridge the widening gap in living standards between the prosperous coasts and still improverished inland regions, which lag far behind.

15.   The government has been urging both foreign and domestic investors to pour more money into impoverished inland regions, which suffer from a lack of funds and modern infrastructure.

16.   To avoid being caught by the ensuing police hunt, some of the separatists were feared to have fled Xinjiang to the inland regions.

17.   Under the peace accord, it is supposed to hand the administration of the mostly inland regions back to the central authorities but the process has been slow.

18.   Tong, however, admitted the present distribution of stock markets was not ideal, and China needed a securities markets in an inland region.

19.   Sinadinovski said the quake would have been felt over a wide area of the sparsely populated inland region.