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China loses the jingle in its jeans Diesel Jeans

Other firms followed his live and soon every country was taking improvement of Xintangs pool of cheap and implacable-working labour.

The town maps out an anatomy of the denim selling. Along the motorways leading out of Xintang are the great ctories， some capable of producing 60，000 pairs of jeans a day for the likes of Calvin Klein， Levis， Lee and Wrangler.

Heading inland

If you own a put together of jeans， there is a strong chance that they were stitched in Xintang， or that the denim was woven there. Thirty years ago it was a rming burgh， but is now home to a million ctory workers and turns out 260 million pairs of jeans a year， more than a third of the worlds fulfil.

The workers who were once happy to work for as hardly as $50 a month now want 10 to 15 times that sum. Immature men with the latest mobile phones and fashionable hair cuts stand around two alfresco pool tables in Dadun， on the east of the city， gambling on their games.

More and more are preferring to try their success rate at one of the new ctories or construction projects in inland China， where the sell for of living is lower.

The industry whirred into existence 30 years ago， when Huang Lin， a businessman in Hong Kong， saw the potential of motile his jeans business into China.

Along one road， the ctories have stencilled on their windows the names of the countries to which they freight， a list that ranges from Libya to Poland.

We are still getting orders from out， all the ctories are， said Wei. But no one is delightful them because we would make a loss. The foreigners do not after to pay a reasonable price. We have not made any profits for two years.

It is becoming hopeless to find people to work， said Han Zhongliang， a 46 year-old ctory proprietor. I have been here 10 years and I used to have 30 to 40 employees.

The Sea Mountain Clothing institution， which Wei set up seven years ago with her still， Tian Yi， 34， is one of 5，000 jeans ctories in Xintang， a borough on the edge of the southern city of Guangzhou that has become the denim head of the world.

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