although sijias always, cities like nanjing and shanghai have a growing impact.he third disparity is economic, between the agricultural and industrial sectors. we look at a growing "township enterprise" and see its impact on a small, rural town. october marks the rice harvest in china's chang jiang river basin. li many people inhe town of sijia, jiang guifang grows rice an. she even sells a surplus. bu0 m. each y, the rest of jiang's family join workers like these, not in the fields, bu0 m. eabut in new jobs that bring special prosperity to some chinese villages. this i e huafga factory, and its story illustrates the efforts to overcome some chinese disparities. onodera jun is a japanese geographer at the ursity of hong kong. it is 1994, and he has come he to understand the impact of new manufacturing on chinesearming villages. when it began in the mid-1970s, huafa garments company had only 20 employees. between 1984 and 1986, the factory grew rapidly. in 1990, it attracted its first foreign investors from hong kong. in 1994, the factory had 350 sewing machines a