Important industries include equipment manufacturing, tourism, and service outsourcing.

While the new joint venture only involves equipment manufacturing, Sprint's long-term purpose is to solidify its position in providing the next generation of communication services.

Last September, the company announced a plan to split itself into three separate businesses: communications services, equipment manufacturing and computers.

Northeast China is the country's traditional industrial base, focusing mainly on equipment manufacturing.

The plan is to coordinate health-care equipment manufacturing, too.

Toward the end of the 19th century, Berlin became a world leader in the then cutting-edge sector of electrical equipment manufacturing.

Manufacturing lost 2,100 jobs, more than half of them in equipment manufacturing, continuing a trend that has been going on for decades.

The judge refuses to discuss the information service restriction, but his comments about equipment manufacturing suggest his feelings.

Light industries include agricultural equipment manufacturing and automobile components manufacturing.

The Hollings bill makes no recommendation about information services and focuses only on equipment manufacturing.