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So we're just walking into DaTang Village, one of the urban villages in Guangzhou, where there are hundreds and hundreds of garment workers

and tiny workshops already pressing and ironing materials for the day.

Amy Hawkins is the Guardian's Beijing correspondent, and she recently took a trip to one of the

manufacturing capitals of China.

These areas are very densely packed, round shackled buildings, known as handshake buildings,

because they're so close together you can actually shake hands between the two of them.

You might have never been anywhere like Guangzhou, but you've almost certainly come across something that was made there.

And now they are where much of the world's cheap fashion comes from.

So around 15% of China's textile exports come from Guangdong.

The province are in, and much of that is concentrated in urban villages like this.

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