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In a recently announced 2011 Ideal Employer Ranking, GE ranked No. 3 in the Top 100 Ideal Employer list for engineering students in China, following both State Grid and China Mobile. Jumping 11 positions from last year’s 14th to 3rd, GE ranked the highest among all the other multinational companies this year.

One of GE’s recently announced China deals is the coal gasification joint venture that’s been formed with Shenhua Group to sell and develop gasification technology and advance the deployment of “cleaner coal” solutions in China. Tied to that effort is GE’s 1,400-person strong China Technology Center in Shanghai, which has been tapping into the country’s homegrown scientific talent since it was launched in 2000.

John G. Rice, vice-chairman of General Electric Co. and president and chief executive of GE Technology Infrastructure, is scheduled to shift from the US to a new base in Hong Kong. It will be the first time a GE executive as senior as him will relocate from the company’s headquarters. In an interview in Delhi, Rice said the move will bring the multinational company more in tune with local needs.

With China experiencing one of the largest rural to urban migrations in history, a number of aviation, energy and rail agreements have been signed between GE and China over the last 14 months. During Chinese President Hu Jintao’s visit to Washington this week, updates will be announced on the deals, which are designed to help one of the world’s fastest growing markets meet its infrastructure challenges in sustainable ways — and to create and support U.S. jobs, provide unprecedented access to Chinese technologies and markets, and generate a new wave of growth for GE. In terms of jobs, the deals will support nearly 4,700 in the U.S., including those along GE’s U.S. supply chain.

There were certainly a lot of zeroes in the numbers tied to GE’s recent globetrotting series of moves. From new R&D centers in Brazil and China to a new plan to double U.S. exports, here’s a by-the-numbers snapshot at a busy week focused on global expansion, U.S. jobs, and technology transformations.