Inside Bra City ; Exclusive Consumer Investigation: We Visit the Chinese Lingerie Factories at Centre of Trade War 180,000 Work in Underwear Capital of World Bras Made for Pounds 1 Are Sold in Uk for Pounds 25

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IT doesn't rate even a passing mention in the tourist guides as visitors to China sweep past on their way to the Great Wall.

Yet this ugly collection of breeze-block factories and warehouses can fairly claim to be one of the true wonders of the modern world. This is International Underwear City - otherwise known as Knickertown or Braville - the most amazing industrial operation on Earth.

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Inside Bra City ; Exclusive Consumer Investigation: We Visit the Chinese Lingerie Factories at Centre of Trade War 180,000 Work in Underwear Capital of World Bras Made for Pounds 1 Are Sold in Uk for Pounds 25

Covering 20 square miles and still growing, this place is to underwear what Detroit and Dagenham used to be to cars. Except instead of driveshafts and carburettors it deals in lace panels and stretch elastic.

You want to know how powerful it is, how influential, how global? Simply look at the lab...

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