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Ezmet Ehmetjan works at textile factory in an industrial park in Yining county in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. [Photo by Zhang Yi/chinadaily.com.cn]

The factory is located in the Yining Textile Manufacturing Industrial Park, which was built by Yining's twin city Nantong, in Jiangsu province.

There are over 20 companies in the park, engaged in spinning, weaving, textile-making and clothing, most of which have come from Nantong.

Chen Shixianxia, a businesswoman from Nantong, invested in building one of the factories, which makes home textiles like cotton quilts and bedsheets, in 2020.