中国政策转向 在华制衣企业处境艰难

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Kathy Chu, 中国政策转向 在华制衣企业处境艰难. 华尔街日报中文版
cn.wsj.com/gb/20151203/biz121858.asp

, which is an abbreviated translation of

Kathy Chu, China Loses Edge on Labor Costs; As wages rise, some makers of apparel and other low-price goods move factories elsewhere. Wall Street Journal, Dec 3, 2015.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/garm ... s-policy-1449082802
(The Hong Kong-based TAL Group next year will close a pants factory that opened in 2007 and employs 2,400.  “The last two or three years, we’ve been losing money” at the pants factory, Roger Lee 李国权, the chief executive of TAL, said. "The manufacturer plans to keep open its other factory in China, a 4,000-employee plant that makes dress shirts. The shirts can be more complicated—and therefore more profitable—to sew than pants")

(a) Excerpt in the window of print: Improvements to infrastructure made countries in Southeast Asia more appealing.  

(b) two consecutive paragraphs:

"The number of Guangdong factories owned by Hong Kong companies fell by a third to 32,000 in 2013 from a 2006 peak, partly because of rising wages and difficulty in procuring workers, an analysis by Justina Yung of Hong Kong Polytechnic University for the federation shows [ the federation being Federation of Hong Kong Industries 香港工业总会, a trade group for 3,000 manufacturers, mostly with factories on the mainland]

"This year, wages and benefits in China are expected to climb 8.6%, lower than the previous year’s 10.3% growth rate, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit [EIU, the research arm of The Economit].

(c) My comment: The cn.wsj.com does not translate the last quarter of the English-language report (but the last paragraph is translated), starting at "In Zhongshan.