East Asia Insight 2009.1
Recession Hits China
A little boy runs happily across a sea of soft toys, waving a cuddly teddy bear. He has been allowed to help himself from the abandoned warehouse by its owners. The workers are now redundant and many are unpaid. In Dongguan, a city in southern Guangdong Province just across the border from Hong Kong, more than 14,000 factories, one fifth of the total number in the city, had closed their doors by November last year. In previous years, the months before Christmas have seen the factories at their busiest; now many have gone out of business.
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