REUTERS: China's campaign to boost loans to small firms was supposed to support the economy during its biggest slowdown in decades, but banks' reluctance to lend has left exporters and manufacturers in its southern industrial belt struggling to pay the bills.Despite prodding from Beijing, several bankers have told Reuters they have little appetite to lend to smaller companies due to the uncertain economic outlook, the U.S.-China trade war and a years-long drive to purge risks from the financial system.That has chilled credit flows to private sector firms, undermining stimulus measures that were designed to cushion the impact of slowing demand.In the southern city of Dongguan in Guangdong province, one of the country's major manufacturing hubs, some small firms are moving production overseas in the face of operational and financing challenges."These days the most discussed topic - something that we always talk about in meetings - is whether we should move to Vietnam. Many of my clients … [Read more...] about China’s credit push to small firms falters in factory heartland