The inland push

Looks at how the Central Government's decision to develop Northwest China, encourage relocating coastal industries inland, enforce security deposit requirement on export processing with supplied materials and introduce the new Labour Contract Law affect the 80,000 Hong Kong industrialists in the Pearl River Delta. These and a shortage of factory workers force industrialists, who have helped develop the area, to relocate or face closure. Follows a Hong Kong businessman as he travels to Hunan, Jiangxi and Guangxi to look for the ideal site to relocate his factory from Dongguan. He explains his bitterness of being forced to relocate inland.
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