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Textile jobs: Goodbye U.S., hello China.
Byline: Stella M. Hopkins
SHENGZE, China _ This eastern China town commemorated its economic roots in 1840 by building an ornate temple to textiles.
The worship appears to have paid off.
Local officials boast that the number of mills has tripled to 1,500 in five years, including the mile-long Hengli mill opened in February. Rainbows of fabric are everywhere, in trucks bound for customers and in the shops of one of the country's largest wholesale fabric markets.
Behold, the mill town of the 21st century.
Echoes abound of a Carolinas heritage, a time when textiles were king, when mill bosses ruled and workers lived in tiny mill ...
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