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szdaily -> World Economy -> 
Colorado clothing firm underscores Sino-US biz ties
    2019-09-16  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

WHEN Rhonda Swenson — founder and CEO of boutique women’s clothing business Krimson Klover — first went to Shanghai in 1984, China’s biggest city “had mostly bicycles” on its streets, and “Pudong was just a big field.”

It was a historic time for China — when Chinese policymakers innovatively started the reform and opening-up policy in the late 80s.

Such reforms have transformed the world’s most populous nation to a manufacturing juggernaut as is today, and offer Swenson a unique view of China’s economic rise.

When Swenson launched one of her four successful businesses, she went to China again and found Jenny Zhang, who had just opened a small factory in Shanghai’s Pudong.

Zhang, a former clothing sales representative, knew the trade and the manufacturing side.

Swenson said that she had soon discovered that China could make just about anything, make it well, and meet delivery deadlines — better than just about any one.

“The Chinese are just great business partners,” Swenson said.

Moving in consort with China’s growth, Swenson’s Colorado-based clothing business saw profits rise as trade relationship deepened between her startup business and a small factory in Shanghai across the Pacific Ocean, some 10,791 km apart.

The partnership, which endured and thrived for both women to this day, gave Zhang the wealth to send her son to a U.S. college, and Swenson, the chance to watch her clothing company grow and prosper.

Over the years — in typical Chinese business fashion — the two trans-Pacific business partners have shared dozens of meals together, with family and friends, and have developed a deep trust and confidence in each other, according to Swenson. (Xinhua)

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