1.   HSBC, for instance, has been responding to Chinese efforts to direct investment away from big cities and coastal areas into the poorer inland provinces.

2.   In their place, many officials pushed for new policies to help lift the inland provinces out of poverty.

3.   The go-go growth pushed by Deng has created huge disparities between rich coastal cities and poor inland provinces.

4.   A Western diplomat said a strong negative vote could reflect discontent among delegates from poorer inland provinces that the richer coastal provinces are becoming too powerful.

5.   Most of those trapped inside were migrant workers from poorer inland provinces, officials said.

6.   The new office shows the bank is extending its business from the coastal areas to inland provinces, the newspaper quoted Bank of Tokyo chairman Tasuku Takagaki as saying.

7.   Thousands of Chinese from poorer inland provinces arrive in Shenzhen every year to work.

8.   Thousands of Chinese from poorer inland provinces flock to Shenzhen every year for work.

9.   Zunyi is in Guizhou, an inland southwestern province of rocky soil and steep hills covered with terraced rice paddies.

10.   Government policies aimed at stemming the influx by expanding township enterprises in inland provinces have failed to provide an incentive for the labourers to stay closer to home.