The economic miracle of China’s midday naps
The wuxiu habit is regarded as traditional, but its popularity has grown with rising incomes and longer working hours.
Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox
Chinese companies have dedicated hours during which the office lights are dimmed, fold-out beds are rolled out and lunches are slept off.
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: PEXELS
William Langley
Walking out of the noon heat into one of southern China’s many industrial parks this summer, I thought I’d discovered a factory shutdown.
Just weeks after US President Donald Trump had announced measures to close the tax loopholes that fuelled the rapid growth of fast fashion brands Temu and Shein, a factory in Panyu, where many suppliers are based, seemed empty: lights off, nobody working.
