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An Inquiry into Merchant-Led Industrialization: The Garment Industries in Zhejiang and Hiroshima

In: Cluster-Based Industrial Development

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  • Tetsushi Sonobe
  • Keijiro Otsuka

Abstract

We undertake a comparative study of the development of the garment clusters in China and Japan in this chapter. The cluster in China produces children’s clothes and is located in Jili (or Zhili) in the city of Huzhou in Zhejiang province (see Figure 3.3). The Japanese cluster produces working clothes and is located in Shin-ichi town in the Bingo area, which is the traditional regional name of the whole neighborhood of Fukuyama city in Hiroshima prefecture (see Figure 4.1). The case of Jili is interesting not only because it has grown rapidly but also because its development pattern is so similar to that of the garment cluster in Wenzhou, which is known to be born in the “dirt floor of poor farmer’s house.”1 As will be discussed in Chapter 6, Wenzhou is well-known for its successful cluster-based development led by private enterprises, dubbed the “Wenzhou model” of industrial development. While the garment cluster in Wenzhou had already developed fast in the 1980s, Jili’s cluster developed throughout the 1990s, thus making it easier to collect quantitative information on the relatively early phase of the development process from enterprises in Jili. On the other hand, we chose by chance the working clothes cluster in Bingo among several large garment clusters in Japan.

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  • Tetsushi Sonobe & Keijiro Otsuka, 2006. "An Inquiry into Merchant-Led Industrialization: The Garment Industries in Zhejiang and Hiroshima," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Cluster-Based Industrial Development, chapter 4, pages 60-86, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-59606-1_4
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230596061_4
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