Shaxi (simplified Chinese: 沙溪镇; traditional Chinese: 沙溪鎮; pinyin: Shāxī Zhèn) is a town under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Zhongshan in Guangdong Province, China, located to the west of downtown Zhongshan.
The township covers an area of 55 km2 (21 sq mi) and had a population of 223,625 in 2020,[1] including 100,000 migrant workers.
The town is the ancestral hometown for about 70,000 overseas Chinese in such organizations as the Hook Sin Tong.
[1] It is one of the leading manufacturing centers of casual clothing in the world producing blue jeans and shirts.
The sweatshop conditions of the Lifeng Clothes Factory (丽锋服饰制衣有限公司) in Shaxi while producing Vigaze Jeans, a company based in Istanbul,[3] were featured in the 2005 documentary China Blue.