The spinning room at Taiming Chemical Fibre Limited in Datang "Sock Town" in Zhejiang Province, China. The factory, one of several spinning factories, runs 24 hours a day producing  over 100,000 spools of nylon yarn per day which are all consumed in Datang. The town in Zhejiang Province makes more than 5.3 billion pairs of socks annually - that 2.5 pairs for every human alive.  Most people in the town make a living directly conected to the sock weaving industry..14 Jun 2006