A close relative's family owns a wholesale business selling artificial flowers, craft supplies, etc. and as far as I know all of their products are imported.
Back a few years ago when there was the big stink about finding lead in the paint of products manufactured in China I asked him if it would effect their business in anyway. He said no, because they had not been buying anything from China for a good while because it got too expensive and now about all their stock is manufactured in various other third world countries.
From what I've been hearing and reading, many Chinese company's are importing workers from the north and/or contracting work out to companies in other countries because the southern Chinese have had a taste of the middle class lifestyle and want more of it. Many more are now wanting a taste of it, too.
