their herds of cashmere goats. in the early 1990s, there were about 5 million goats but over the following decade, up 'til today, that number has increased to more than 20 million. this dramatic increase in the volume of raw cashmere production has made it impossible for factories in mongolia to process the entire output. as mongolia transitioned into a market economy, china was also making significant investments into the cashmere industry. this included the construction of many cashmere product manufacturing plants in the inner mongolia autonomous region. in this way, mongolia came to rely upon its neighbor as the major export market for its raw cashmere with china becoming the world's leading manufacturer of cashmere products. but now mongolia is trying to escape its overreliance on china. >> translator: the reason we have adopted a policy of producing finished products inside mongolia is that, at the moment, only around 10% of the cashmere wool produced within mongolia is turned into a finished product. by chan