Left: Ho Ping standing between the two rows she supervises. Top right: Li Wen Xia, 18 years old, has been working in the leather warehouse at Selena for 6 months. Top bottom: Another girl gluing the insoles of shoes.

Now Ho Ping says she enjoys life at the factory. After two years working there she was made a supervisor, her pink coat was swapped for a grey one and she was put in charge of two rows of girls who sew the tops of shoes. When they run out of thread she fetches more so the work is never stopped, if one of the girls slows down it is her responsibility to hurry her up.