Rumbling trucks, busy border crossing: How China feeds Vietnam’s factory boom

From there, they will head south across the border before fanning out to northern Vietnam’s factory boom towns , fuelling production lines that are now busier than before. The warehouse which Li supervises for logistics company Chefuwang is now 17 times its size in 2021, he said, amid the surge in machinery, components and materials that Vietnam’s industrial base demands. The hive of activity supports a dependence that is running both ways. Just as factories in Vietnam need Chinese parts to keep humming, China’s manufacturers have invested heavily in Vietnam to keep exports strong. The small town, home to a…