Guanyun county is China’s self-proclaimed ‘Lingerie Capital’, where sewing machines hum in village-level micro-factories to meet demand at home and abroad
GUANYUN (CHINA) – Americans like their lingerie to be risque, Europeans prefer it more classy, and Chinese remain a bit shy but are opening up. But the biggest order of all came from North Korea.
So goes the street-corner discussion in Guanyun, a sleepy coastal county that for generations followed the rhythms of wheat and rice cultivation, but today concerns itself with global preferences on sensual wear.
The flat farming region between Beijing and Shanghai is China’s self-proclaimed “Lingerie Capital”, where sewing machines hum in village-level micro-factories to meet up to 70 percent of the fast-growing domestic demand.
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