"Fast Fashion, Slow Justice: Labor Conditions in Shein’s Supply Workshops" China Labor Watch, 30 July 2025

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This report draws on more than 50 worker interviews, multiple on-site visits, and extensive desktop research conducted between 2019 and 2025 on Shein’s supplier factories in Guangzhou, a key manufacturing hub in southern China.

We uncovered concerns including labor practices, child welfare risks, health and safety hazards, and possible infringements of gender and migrant rights, as well as a broader social backdrop that enables and sustains such practices. Recent macroeconomic pressures—such as shifts in U.S. tariff policy—further shape and exacerbate the vulnerabilities of this labor force. Open-source findings also raise a credible risk that Shein products for non-US markets may include Xinjiang textiles.

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SHEIN’S RESPONSE

25 March 2025

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At this moment, SHEIN is unable to verify the findings of the investigations conducted by China Labor Watch, because we have not been given access to the report where these issues have been identified. That said, SHEIN has established processes to address issues that pose risks within our supply chain.

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