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Industrial clustersBleak times in bra town产业群：文胸之城的黯淡时光One-product towns fuelled China’s export boom. Many are now in trouble生产单一产品的城镇曾经刺激了中国出口的繁荣。但他们中很多现在正处于困境。Apr 16th 2016 | GURAO | From the print editionA PYRAMID of bras stands beside each worker at the Honji Underwear factory in Gurao, a town in the southern province of Guangdong. The workshop resounds with the clack-clack of sewing machines as employees repeat their single, assigned task before passing the garment on to the next person on the production line. Most of the 22,000 thickly padded bras made here each day are destined for shops in China. In this “Town of Underwear”, as the local government likes to call it, there are thousands of similar factories. Gurao produces 350m bras and 430m vests and pairs of knickers a year for sale at home and abroad. Undies account for 80% of its industrial output.在位于广东省南部谷饶镇的广东鸿基内衣公司，每个工人身边都有着成堆的文胸。工厂车间回荡着缝纫机咔哒咔哒的声音，工人们在重复着他们单一的、分配好的工作，然后把正在制作的衣物传给生产流水线上的下一个人。这里每天生产的2.2万个垫得厚厚的文胸，其中的大部分会被送到中国各地的店铺。在这个被当地政府誉为“内衣之都”的地方，有数以千计类似的内衣生产工厂。谷饶每年生产3.5亿只文胸和4.3亿件背心以及女式内裤销往国内外。其中内裤占据了80%的工业产值。Across Gurao, billboards show big-breasted—usually foreign—women sporting the lingerie that underwires the town’s prosperity (see picture). But many people in Gurao and other underwear-factory clusters around Shantou, a coastal city, worry about the future. Costs are rising, but customers are unwilling to pay more, says June Liu of Pengsheng Underwear, which makes lingerie and swimwear. Last year several factory-owners fled from Gurao, leaving debts and unpaid wages. Some also shut up shop in Chendian, another underwear town nearby.遍布谷饶的广告牌展示着胸部丰满的女性—通常是外国女性—炫耀地穿着托起这个城镇繁荣的内衣。但是谷饶的许多人以及其他聚集于沿海城市汕头的内衣公司们正在担忧未来。生产女性内衣和游泳衣的鹏升内衣公司的June Liu解释说，行业的生产成本日益上升，但是消费者们却不愿意支付更高的价格。去年，数家工厂的老板逃离谷饶，留下债务和未付清的工资。在附近的另一个内衣镇陈店，一些人也关闭了他们的工厂。During the past three decades of rapid economic growth, one-industry towns like Gurao and Chendian sprang up along China’s eastern seaboard, often in what were once paddyfields. Wi