Garment Industry Gaining Worldwide Fame in Ancient S. China Town

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Garment Industry Gaining Worldwide Fame in Ancient S. China Town

Humen, a small town in south China's Guangdong Province, is catching the world's eye with its booming garment industry.

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Humen, a small town in south China's Guangdong Province, is catching the world's eye with its booming garment industry.

The 170-square meter town has become crowded with more than 1,000 garment enterprises, over 600 of which are private and more than 300 foreign-funded.

More than 400,000 of the town's over 700,000 population are engaged in garment making. The town's clothing sales stand at around 10 billion yuan (1.2 billion US dollars) annually.

The flourishing garment industry has become the primary source of income for local people, who currently have a total of more than 17 billion yuan (2 billion US dollars) in the bank.

Guo Donglin, 32, a former fruit vendor, is one of many in Hume who has been very successful in running his own enterprise. Guo now runs eight factories, paying more than 6 million yuan (725,000US dollars) in taxes annually.

"It's all because of the good policies and support of the local government," said Guo.

The local government's preferential policies and an admirable geographical location have facilitated the development of the local garment industry.

Situated on the eastern bank of the mouth of the Pearl River, Humen is located at the point where the flourishing economies of Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Hong Kong and Macao meet.

The China Humen International Garment Trade Fair, an annual event since 1996, has attracted the attention of garment enterprises from countries including the United States and France.The transaction volume at the fair is more than 1 billion yuan (120 million US dollars) annually, according to Zhong Ganquan, Party secretary of Humen Town.

More than 160 years ago, Humen was also known to the outside world as the place where Lin Zexu, then the Imperial Commissioner appointed by the central authorities of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), burnt British opium and later led local volunteers and an army to fight the British aggressors.

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