Thread by @ZichenWanghere, A THREAD: May 1, U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a Detention [...]

A THREAD: May 1, U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a Detention Order on Hair Products Manufactured by Hetian Haolin Hair Accessories Co. Ltd. (Haolin) 和田浩林发饰品有限公司 "based on information that reasonably indicates the use of forced labor" https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-issues-detention-order-hair-products-manufactured-forced-labor">https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/...

It took me about 1 hour to find 4 pics above, which are all openly sourced from public/online info.
The first two pics are from @XHNews http://www.xinhuanet.com/photo/2018-11/24/c_1210001297.htm">https://www.xinhuanet.com/photo/201...
the 3rd @PDChina http://paper.people.com.cn/rmrb/html/2019-08/16/nw.D110000renmrb_20190816_1-12.htm">https://paper.people.com.cn/rmrb/html...
the 4th from a Urumqi district govt website http://www.uhdz.gov.cn/info/1005/26243.htm">https://www.uhdz.gov.cn/info/1005...

Justin Yifu Lin, the ex-World Bank Chief Economist and Senior VP, touring a hair product manufacturer in late July 2019 in Hetian, according to official @PKU1898 (he works there now) site https://www.nse.pku.edu.cn/zcsj/gnzk1/495965.htm
I">https://www.nse.pku.edu.cn/zcsj/gnzk... can NOT (REPEAT: NOT) definitely conclude it& #39;s Haolin, but likely

can NOT conclude b/c the caption didn& #39;t mention specifically Haolin, but the @PKU1898 page mentioned 洛浦县工业园区小微产业园 and 和田地区进一步聚焦假发 and 林毅夫院长深入了解和田地区制鞋和假发等劳动密集型产业的发展

article on Hetian govt website that says Lin led 250 people in DIFFERENT groups to visit a number of factories, including 洛浦县浩林发饰 Haolin. The article however also didn& #39;t say if Lin was among the group to Haolin. But among the named factories, only one is involved in hair

another LIKELY (REPEAT: LIKELY) pic of Haolin, from web of 自治区市场监督管理局 a govt department of Xinjiang http://scjgj.xinjiang.gov.cn/xjaic/qjxx/201909/3da75c4671e54d8da4c7cee051a931b8.shtml
LIKELY">https://scjgj.xinjiang.gov.cn/xjaic/qjx... b/c again there& #39;s no caption to the pic, but there is hair product in the pic and the text (2nd pic) mentioned the team visited Haolin

another LIKELY (REPEAT: LIKELY) pic of Haolin, from web of 自治区市场监督管理局 a govt department of Xinjiang https://scjgj.xinjiang.gov.cn/xjaic/qjx... b/c again there& #39;s no caption to the pic, but there is hair product in the pic and the text (2nd pic) mentioned the team visited Haolin

What wouldn& #39;t take an hour but just one minute via online search is that Haolin is actually well-publicized and documented by Chinese media as a 扶贫 poverty relief project of 援疆 assistance to Xinjiang from the City of Beijing
here, Beijing Daily 北京日报 cites it as an example

@XHNews ran a feature of Haolin in late Nov 2018 where it& #39;s mentioned: http://www.xinhuanet.com/fortune/2018-11/24/c_1123762283.htm
Haolin">https://www.xinhuanet.com/fortune/2... had set up 1 main factory, two subsidiary factories and 36 in-village satellites factories where local farmers/peasants could 就近就地就业 work locally close to their home

@XHNews ran a feature of Haolin in late Nov 2018 where it& #39;s mentioned: https://www.xinhuanet.com/fortune/2... had set up 1 main factory, two subsidiary factories and 36 in-village satellites factories where local farmers/peasants could 就近就地就业 work locally close to their home

it is reported that Haolin& #39;s parent company has been making hair products for 2 decades and it chose to set up shop in Hetian b/c local govt commercial
incentives such as 3-yr free rent, subsidized electricity price, proportionate subsidy of logistics, etc.

A report by 光明日报 Guangming Daily, not dedicated to Haolin, also mentions the company ,in the context that Haolin helps train locals with making hair products.
It& #39;s reported that 4 locals went to train for around 20 days and came back to work in in-village satellite workshops

Undated article (probably before 1Q 2019) on Hetian& #39;s govt says average space of Haolin& #39;s 27 satellite factories around 300 square meters, in 6 counties 乡镇, each employing between 60 to 110 ppl. In total 1082 ppl，among which 596 are 贫困户 (govt-defined) poor households

The @XHNews report says it& #39;s a piece-rate pay and cites a female worker as saying she earns around 1,500 yuan per month.
A report by 新京报 The Beijing News says nearly 2,000 yuan per month.

China& #39;s 2019 per capita DISPOSABLE income of rural households was 16,021 yuan YEARLY

There are other Chinese-language reports that can be searched.

Again, all info above is open-sourced from the Internet with no inside info (personally I& #39;ve never been to Western China) and I tried to use my words carefully

It& #39;s too late here and I& #39;ll leave the comments to you

PS:
1) (even) human hair product is common, Haolin& #39;s subsequently seized product by @CBP was, as reported by @AP , later determined to be synthetic.
2) Neither @CBP nor Anglophone media cited anything similar to the above, so maybe it& #39;s worth filing a gap here.
3) usual caveats.

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