Datang's smart factories help sew up title of world's 'sock

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.

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