There are a few efforts to do that. At the Fasotex factory, General Manager Grand is working on getting a new fleet of machines that would begin weaving cloth out of local cotton by next year.
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"If people bring things into China to get them manufactured here, I think keeping that technology secret, as it were, will be very, very difficult, " says Graham Hughes, a South African factorymanager based near Beijing.