China has attached great importance to improving the livelihoods of people from different ethnic groups and their human rights since 2012. Attempts to use ethnic and religious issues to create conflict in China will never succeed, said the deputy director of a Chinese association for promoting exchange in ethnic affairs.
While the town is not known to the vast majority of people outside of China, the socks and stockings worn around the world likely come from Datang. The town's hosiery industry currently turns out as many as 27 billion pairs of socks, worth 75 billion yuan ($11.2 billion), each year－accounting for 70 percent of the national market and 35 percent of the global market.