From Japan to Guangdong, and from South Korea to Singapore, the region is caught up in a frenzy of industrialization. Pacific Rim has become synonymous with economic opportunity. Today China's coastal provinces are industrializing but the process has already run its course in Japan and Singapore. Taiwan and South Korea are in the intermediate stage, and Vietnam lags behind. But as a whole East Asia is becoming the world's most productive cluster of industrial regions.
Primary industry is more tied to the landscape.
Farming, fishing, forestry, mining. These are manufacturers who transform, process, and assemble raw materials into useful products. Others take manufactured goods and fabricate them into finished goods. Retailing, banking, law, education, and government. The distribution of workers among primary, secondary, and tertiary sectors varies sharply between more and less developed countries.