Nearby Dongguan factories are unusually fortunate: they get juice five days out of seven.
But the march of globalisation continues, and it is now putting pressure on Dongguan's factories to cut costs.
But the bulk of its manufacturing is in southern Chinese city of Dongguan.
In the past two Brazilian presidential elections, a polling station was even set up in Dongguan a novelty for local Chinese.
The tip that led to this particular raid, the 14th in Dongguan in the past year, came from a local cop.
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Dongguan is a factory town and most of its almost 10 million inhabitants are migrant workers struggling to make ends meet.
Dongguan's Brazilian community is now China's largest, twice the size of Shanghai's and almost triple the size of that in Beijing.
Dongguan, once a booming factory center, is on the verge of bankruptcy as companies close, leaving the local government severely cash-strapped.
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Dongguan is facing mounting problems as factories close down and manufacturing moves to other cities in China and abroad which offer cheaper labor.
An employee at the sole Guangdong producer, Daojiao Jinying Rice Product Factory, based in the city of Dongguan, said he was unaware of the issue.
Shih's Acer has several large computer assembly plants in China, as do many of its component suppliers, most of whom manufacture in Dongguan, Guangdong province.
Naicy Zhang, a Chinese tourist visiting Hong Kong from Dongguan, agrees.
An employee at one additionally named Guangdong producer, Daojiao Jinying Rice Product Factory, based in the city of Dongguan, said he was unaware of the issue.
"They are hard workers and obedient employees, " Zeng Xiangbiao, a shoe factory owner in Dongguan, told a Chinese reporter in a familiar refrain on immigrant labor.
The report found that one-third of luxury consumption in China today came from just nine markets: Chongqing, Dongguan, Foshan, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Shenzhen, Tianjin and Wenzhou.
The new Dongguan manufacturing facility produces only Edifier branded products.
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Dongguan-based Hsu Fu Chi makes sugar sweets, snacks and cakes.
At least seven others (Chennai, Bangalore, Bogota, Ho Chi Minh City, Dongguan, Chengdu and Hyderabad) are now above 8 million, making it likely they could reach megacity status by 2030.
Since the neighborhoods in this part of Dongguan, which is also China's sex-trade capital, are suspicious of outsiders, the investigators had to find a local whom they could pay to provide surveillance.
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In Dongguan, factory managers face the choice of increasing wages (which they have hardly adjusted for years), shifting to less labour-intensive production or moving to areas where cheap labour is more abundant.
The mall was initially headed by Dongguan native Alex Hu Guirong, who became a billionaire in the instant noodle business, and later sold to the Founders Group, a conglomerate set up by Peking University.
The sting took place in a dingy residential district of five-story apartment blocks on the outskirts of Dongguan, a city that is part of the Pearl River megalopolis extending from nearby Guangzhou to Hong Kong, 60 miles away.
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