A few hours drive outside of Shanghai, this giant textile factory has imported top-of-the-line machines from Belgium. At the time of this photo, the company was about to expand by about 200 machines to a total of 500. The floor of the workroom shakes from the operation of the machines.
Bird Mobile
Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, 2005
The largest mobile-phone manufacturer in China when this photo was shot, Bird Mobile has since been overtaken. Here, workers complete a manual-assembly portion of the phone-production process.
