标题: Bleak Times in Bra Town [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 4-17-2016 18:11 标题: Bleak Times in Bra Town Industrial clusters | Bleak Times in Bra Town. One-product towns fuelled China's export boom. Many are now in trouble. Economist, Apr 16, 2016. http://www.economist.com/news/ch ... leak-times-bra-town
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(a) "Honji Underwear 广东宏杰内衣实业有限公司 [1998- ] factory in Gurao, a town in the southern province of Guangdong"
(b) "Gurao produces 350m bras and 430m vests and pairs of knickers a year for sale at home and abroad. Undies account for 80% of its industrial output."
(i)
(A) vest (n): "British an undergarment worn on the upper part of the body, typically having no sleeves" for both men and women www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/english/vest
(B) vest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vest
(can be: "Normally worn under a shirt or as athletic wear, this is known as an A-shirt or tank top in the US and Canada, vest in the UK and many Commonwealth countries, and singlet in Australia")
(ii) panties https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panties
(panties in American English and knickers in British English)
(c) "June Liu of Pengsheng Underwear, which makes lingerie and swimwear. Last year several factory-owners fled from Gurao, leaving debts and unpaid wages. Some also shut up shop in Chendian 广东省汕头市潮南区陈店镇, another underwear town nearby."
鹏盛内衣厂 (谷饶镇) PengSheng Lingerie Factory
(d) A graphic.
(i) Ouhai 溫州市瓯海区
(ii) Jinjiang 福建省泉州市晋江市
(iii) Chenghai 汕头市澄海区
(iv) Shiling 廣州市花都区狮岭镇
(v) Tangxia 广东省东莞市塘厦镇 (与深圳市宝安区接壤: zh.wikipedia.org)
(e) "the bra-makers of Gurao are far more worried about foreign competition than foreign eco-warriors. China's consumer goods grabbed a huge share of global markets thanks to their low prices. That advantage is fading. Since 2001 wages have risen by 12% a year. Thailand and Vietnam, where labour is cheaper and taxes lower, now make lingerie for global brands such as Victoria's Secret and La Senza. China's biggest underwear firm, Regina Miracle, will open two factories in Vietnam this year, its first outside China"
(i)
(A) La Senza https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Senza
(a fashion retailer based on island of Montreal; its first store opened in 1990 in Sherbrooke (east of Montreal), Canada; L Brands (formerly known as Limited Brands) of Columbus, Ohio acquired it in 2006)
(B) " 'La senza' doesn't make any sense. In Italian, [the article] 'la' means 'the' and [preposition] 'senza' (pronounced 'sen-tsah') means 'without.' So, 'the without'?"
(ii) 關於我們. Regina Miracle, undated www.reginamiracleholdings.com
("維珍妮國際(控股)有限公司集團創建於1998年,總公司設於香港,廠區坐落於深圳光明新區,現正於越南海防市的越南新加坡工業園('VSIP')建立新廠房")
(f) "Because they are dominated by private enterprises, towns such as Gurao may be nimbler at adapting to changing market conditions than China's steel and coal cities"
It is amazing that China can be beat at its own game.