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Castro on Chinese train
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-01-16 06:44
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![Cuban President Fidel Castro on Saturday steps down from one of 12 diesel locomotives that arrived in Havana by ship from China a week earlier. China became Cuba's second-largest trading partner after Venezuela in 2005 exports to Cuba grew 95 per cent in the first 10 months of 2005 to over US$500 million, while imports rose 17 per cent to US$200 million, according to Yang Shidi, China's commercial counsellor in Havana. [Reuters]](xin_2001031606527111845610.jpg)
Cuban President Fidel Castro on Saturday steps
down from one of 12 diesel locomotives that arrived in Havana by ship from
China a week earlier. China became Cuba's second-largest trading partner
after Venezuela in 2005. Chinese exports to Cuba grew 95 per cent in the
first 10 months of 2005 to over US$500 million, while imports rose 17 per
cent to US$200 million, according to Yang Shidi, China's commercial
counsellor in Havana. [Reuters]
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