Jingzhou’s human resources and social security bureau in Hubei province published a letter on November 9, 2026, inviting Jingzhou-born textile and garment workers in Guangzhou to consider returning home to start businesses. The appeal follows the launch of urban renewal in Guangzhou’s southern central-axis area of Haizhu district. According to the letter, familiar garment-production areas including Kangle, Lujiang, Datang and Shangchong are set to relocate.
The bureau said returnees could access entrepreneurship subsidies, interest support on business loans, skills-training subsidies and one-stop registration services. It also proposed a model in which businesses take orders in Guangzhou and produce goods in Jingzhou. The city said it had introduced support policies for incoming textile and garment businesses and would arrange buses and freight vehicles to help interested workers and businesses move people and equipment. The letter did not specify subsidy amounts or eligibility details.
Jingzhou plans to hold a return-entrepreneurship event in Guangzhou from November 14 to 17, 2026, for residents interested in discussing the move.
For context, a Hubei Daily report from 2023 described Haizhu as a major garment-processing and trading hub, with annual transactions of about 200 billion yuan. It said urban villages near the Zhongda garment market housed tens of thousands of small businesses and hundreds of thousands of workers, and reported that the future of an estimated 300,000 Hubei residents there was a concern for both provinces. Those figures describe the situation reported in 2023, not a current count.
Original report: The Paper.
