As towel manufacturers fretted about whether they'd be placed on the so-called "early harvest list" during the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) negotiations with mainland China, Shing-Long Towel Industrial Co. (or SL Towel), located in Huwei Township, Yunlin County, was busy spending the past couple of years extricating itself from its economic woes, reshaping its troubled enterprise into a creative and dynamic tourist factory.
當同業仍在為兩岸是否簽訂 ECFA，如何避免毛巾業被列入「早期收穫清單」而忐忑不安時，位於雲林虎尾鎮的興隆毛巾廠，這 2 年已走出悲情，從「艱困產業」脫胎換骨成充滿創意與生機的「觀光工廠」。