Rwanda may be landlocked in central Africa and saddled with prohibitive energy costs, but it has become the latest beneficiary of a quest by Chinese manufacturers to find competitive margins as wages rise at home.
Candy Ma, a 40 year-old Chinese industrialist, has hired 200 trainee workers at her government-built factory in the east African country, and this month she invited buyers from Walmart, H&M and Tesco to inspect the facility.
She plans to export 30,000 T-shirts a month — enough for an initial $10m in first-year sales — and expects to expand tenfold to 2,000 workers next year.
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