The heart of Shandong province – the area around Qingdao, Weifang and Yantai – has traditionally focussed on the three black industries: tire manufacture, machinery castings and machining graphite for electrodes. On a press trip, journalists were taken to see some of these industries, including Geruida Tire (青岛 的 格锐达 轮 胎股份有限公司), in which Cooper

