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Modern wool textile processing equipment. The use of modern imported equipment and precision processing systems requires smooth and timely access to particular types of high-quality, imported wool. Traditional trading channels are not well suited to providing mills with access to precisely specified raw materials in a timely fashion. Modernizing mill equipment without reforming wool trading illustrates the barriers to China’s economic transition created by uneven progress in strongly interdependent segments of an industry.