Now they are desperate to get them to stay.Jintang county, to which Fuxing belongs, once enjoyed the dubious honour of being the biggest labour-exporting county in Sichuan province.
Exporting nuclear waste from most counties is illegal, as well as extremely dangerous and expensive.
Actions of individual counties, whether they are exporting or importing, are motivated by their own local interest, and they form the intricate pattern of the global food safety.
"To do this is just exporting the chaos and instability of the county to the towns and cities and is very unfair," said Richard V. Guardino, the supervisor of the Town of Hempstead.
"Moreover," Cook continued, "the aggressive project pumping could harm the springs of the Mojave National Preserve and regional air quality, while exporting precious water resources out of San Bernardino County to ratepayers in Los Angeles and Orange counties".
"We have been exporting waste to Bedford, to Cambridge, to north London and parts of Berkshire for so long that quite correctly we are under pressure to organise it ourselves within the county," he said.
"You have to study a lot of this stuff, even in elementary school doing state projects and memorising counties and capitals and agriculture and goods exported and imported and histories," he explains.
Base Resources – the first major, direct foreign investor in Kenya's mining sector – exported its first shipment of mineral sands from its mine in Kwale county this year.
Chris Dalzell, whose family bedding and home appliance shop has been a fixture of the County Armagh town of Markethill for half a century, thinks Northern Ireland's ability to export more widely is now hindered by its EU membership.
