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The Prato industrial zone now accounts for more than 30% of Italy's textile imports from China.
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Allowing for the Chinese that live in Prato illegally, the real number may be far higher.
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In total, 13% of Prato's population was born outside Italy, according to Italy's national statistics office.
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The province of Prato has 10, 900 resident Chinese nationals, many of them working in the textile industry.
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Prato still remains the world's fabric development leader - a sort of laboratory where future fabric trends are tested out.
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Prato's influx of Chinese has caused tensions there, though they have been of the economic rather than the racial sort.
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Decorated white oxen drag an elaborate cart stuffed full of fireworks from the Porta al Prato to the Piazza del Duomo.
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Only Milan, more than ten times Prato's size, has more.
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Take Prato, a beautiful town in Tuscany that grew rich on foreign trade in textiles during the Middle Ages and has the churches and paintings to show for it.
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"Generally, I come up with a name that has something to do with what gave me the impulse to draw it, " he tells CNN from his company's headquarters in the fashion town of Prato, Italy.
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But Xu Lin, a Chinese entrepreneur who set up Giupel, a clothing business, in Prato more than 10 years ago, believes that economic currents are set to favour Italian companies if they innovate and wake up to new opportunities.
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