ASIA-PACIFIC

Chinese companies busy as demand surges in Japan DALIAN,April 30—Export from some northeast China provinces are surging to feed Japan’s hunger for food and raw materials as the country is recovering from a quake and nuclear crisis. Wang Jijie,manager of Qingdao Sungree Food Co., Ltd.in east China’s Shandong Province,has racked his brain to find more hands to expand production. "I’ve already added over 50 workers,but the factory is still short-handed.The amount of orders are at least 30 percent more than that of last year," said Wang,whose company exports frozen vegetables to Japan. Wang’s factory has been running round-the-clock as workers are working in shifts.Still,Wang said it would be almost impossible to deliver on schedule.