Wide cotton fabric passes from a roller, through an open vat of dye and onto a printer at Baofang Printing and Dyeing Co. Ltd. in Keqiao District, Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province. The fabric is then dried, tagged, packaged and shipped off to a destination far away.
Fang Sheng, the company’s deputy general manager, told Xinhua Daily Telegraph: “Our production volume is as high as 1.4 million meters every day, and our products, with their bright colors, are well-known overseas.”
As one of the starting points of the ancient Maritime Silk Road, a conduit for trade and cultural exchange between China’s southeastern coastal areas and foreign
