Faces of Sichuan Province

CHENGDU, SICHUAN - NOVEMBER 07: A farm worker works under a cloche in Shuangliu County on Novermber 7, 2007 in Chengdu, capital of Southwest China's Sichuan Province. The strategy for urban-rural integrated development in Chengdu originated in Shuangliu County. In 2003, Shuangliu took the initative to promote the strategy of 3 Concentrations; namely concentrating enterprises into industry parks, concentrating farmers to urban residential areas, and concentrating farmland utilization towards large scale management. In 2006, the GDP of Shuangliu hit $30.7 billion and GDP $3000 per capita. (Photo by Guang Niu/Getty Images)