The large number of empty factories and depleted towns around the state is a testament to that vote.

It has built empty factories which it lets out free of rent for up to five years.

In the meantime, a lone guard watches over the products still stored inside the empty factory.

An empty factory filled the plot, and private developers had no interest in it.

"We flew up another 10 miles, and I saw an empty factory," he said.

He spoke inside his vast, empty factory, where he had just laid off 260 workers.

Then the tires bit, and they shot down the narrow alley between empty factories.

I started work there in 1967 when it employed 25 000 people, and now I walked into an empty factory.

The outlets were usually situated in a corner of an almost empty factory along a less-traveled highway.

There was nothing between the Queen's Head to my right and the nude side wall of another empty factory about eighty yards down the street.