中国制革业的寒冬

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华尔街日报, Jan 8, 2015
cn.wsj.com/gb/20150108/PHO095821.asp
("皮具消费大国俄罗斯对皮革的需求随着卢布跳水迅速萎缩，外加政府今年加大对制革厂排污的管治力度，'中国皮都' 辛集市的很多制革公司陷入了困境")

Note:
(a) In English, the cry of a sheep and a goat--both sound the same to the uninitiated--is “bleat” or “baa” (the latter being an imitation).
(b) Both 辛集市 and 石家庄市无极县 may be found in 河北省
zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B2%B3%E5%8C%97%E7%9C%81
(section 3 行政区划)
(c) The above Chinese-language photo album is translated from that in an English-language PRINT report, which of course does not have the album.

Richard Silk and Lucy Craymer, China Downturn Is Baaad for Lambskins. Wall Street Journal, Jan 7, 2015.
www.wsj.com/articles/sheep-farme ... es-falls-1420579981
("Australian and New Zealand farmers are having a tough time selling lambskins as China’s tanneries face slowing demand for the products, particularly from Russia, and as Beijing cracks down on some chemical-intensive processing plants")
(i) It is clear that the lambskins in the tanneries mentioned in the photo album comes from abroad, rather than domestic.
(ii) The WSJ print report also mentions sheepskins.

lambskin (n): "a lamb's skin or a small fine-grade sheepskin or the leather made from either; specifically :  such a skin dressed with the wool on and used especially for winter clothing”
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lambskin