{"id":219813,"date":"2018-05-08T23:48:40","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T03:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=219813"},"modified":"2019-02-10T09:31:32","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T14:31:32","slug":"china-turning-ethiopia-into-giant-clothing-factory-bloomberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/219813","title":{"rendered":"China turning Ethiopia into &#8220;giant clothing factory&#8221; &#8211; Bloomberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s aggressive and relentless push into Ethiopia with over $10 billion in investment has resulted in an unprecedented expansion of the country&#8217;s apparel industry, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2018-03-02\/china-is-turning-ethiopia-into-a-giant-fast-fashion-factory\">Bloomberg<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/China-turning-Ethiopia-into-giant-clothing-factory.jpg?resize=596%2C798&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"596\" height=\"798\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-219815\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The level of investment by China has turned Ethiopia into a giant garment factory, Bloomberg said, noting that within the past three years, it has built 4 major industrial parks in the east African country. <\/p>\n<p>China seems to be happy with the strong work ethics of Ethiopians and the extremely low labor cost of $25 per month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s aggressive and relentless push into Ethiopia with over $10 billion in investment has resulted in an unprecedented expansion of the country&#8217;s apparel industry, according to Bloomberg. The level of investment by China has turned Ethiopia into a giant garment factory, Bloomberg said, noting that within the past three years, it has built 4 major [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Made-in-Ethiopia-by-China.jpg?fit=551%2C359&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-Vbn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219816,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219813\/revisions\/219816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}