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On “Guanxi” 关系 in China
China is a country laden with rules and regulations. But many rules can be bent and broken, especially if you have the right guan xi. With that special relationship or connection, you can go surprisingly far. Without out, you get nowhere.
A visit to a Wenzhou shoe factory
By the time we arrived at a quarter past 12, the factory had already produced nearly 900 pairs of shoes. On the third floor of the factory there were at least 60 people spread out across the assembly line that day, the rhythm and energy in the room focused on piecing together a white, knotted sling-back flat sandal. The Jade Bamboo shoe factory, one of thousands in the eastern coastal city of Wenzhou, produced women’s footwear for export all around the world, from Tanzania to Paris to the Ukraine.
A trip to Yiwu: where 1/4 of the world’s drinking straws are made
This region of Zhejiang is famous for manufacturing little things: lightbulbs, pens, lamps, screw drivers, faucets, Q-tips. A quarter of the world’s drinking straws are made in Yiwu. Here, I saw the littlest things marketed on the largest of scales.
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