A Tug of War: Crop and Clothing Xunxian County, Land of Investment Opportunity

摘要

In the craze for new investments in low-income areas from the east to the mid-west provinces in a nation-wide restructuring and relocation process,many midland governments are ready to receive this inflow by providing competitive incentives. Xunxian county in Henan , China’s most densely-populated midland province, is one of them. The question arises whether the crop-richand fertile lands that give way to more industrial factories is economically beneficial to local or national GDP’s growth? It seems this is a tug of war between crop and cotton in textile industry in the country. But many believe providing jobs means a lot …