From late September, China has been facing another round of major electricity shortfalls since last winter. At least a dozen provinces have issued power curbing or rationing orders. Foreign trade SMEs—small- and medium-sized enterprises, which are engaged in foreign trade—are severely impacted by the orders. Textile dyeing and printing industries in China’s eastern Zhejiang Province are among the hardest hit in this new wave of power shortage. The local authorities of Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province, ordered emergency power cuts on Sept. 21, 2021, according to a local businessman. “The notice came very abruptly. It came at 3 a.m., informing the 161 businesses on the list that steam supply would be cut from 6 a.m. and electricity would be cut from 8 a.m., ” Mr. Lin (pseudonym), owner of a dyeing business in Shaoxing, told the Chinese-language edition of The Epoch Times in an interview on Sept. 23. These businesses are listed …