Quick answer: China’s manufacturing clusters group suppliers, materials, and services by product category. Cluster knowledge helps importers compare factories, lead times, and supporting services before requesting quotes.
Whether it is an import wholesaler, buyer, e-commerce seller, or cross-border independent website, product selection plays a crucial role for no matter traditional retail sellers or e-commerce sellers to “expand the territory”. Today we will share the knowledge about cross-border e-commerce product selection – the China national manufacturing industry clusters.
In the daily operation of cross-border e-commerce sellers’ stores, the two most important elements are “product selection” and “operation”. There is a saying in the cross-border e-commerce industry: “seven points of product selection, three points of operation”.
So that sellers in the selection of suppliers, will be more targeted, can easily find good quality and most cost-effective goods.
1. Bag & Luggage industrial cluster
- “The Leather Goods Capital of China” – Shiling, Guangzhou
“Guangzhou Shiling, the leather goods capital of China, belongs to Huadu District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, which is the area with the most complete leather goods industry chain, the strongest industrial supporting ability, and the most concentrated brand in China, and is also the most important leather goods production, sales and R&D base in the world today. In addition, there are Guangzhou Panyu, Huadu District, Shenzhen, high quality, high technology, the full range of products, high knockoff bags are also more out of this place.
- “China’s bag capital”- Baigou town in Hebei
“China’s luggage capital” – Hebei Baigou, slightly lower quality, low prices, Baigou’s top ten professional markets in the luggage trading city and leather, luggage accessories, hardware, and other special professional markets for luggage services. The annual turnover of more than 120 billion yuan of the branded business city, developed to the current largest luggage production and marketing base in the country, the products are sold in more than 130 countries and regions.
- “China’s luggage capital”-Pinghu, Zhejiang
The luggage industry is a traditional pillar industry of Pinghu city, the development, and growth of the luggage industry have played a positive role in the overall economic and social development of Pinghu. 2009 April, China Leather Association and Pinghu city people’s government signed an agreement, decided to build “industrial upgrading – China’s travel luggage capital capital”.
2. Lighting industrial cluster
More than 80% of China’s lighting products are produced in Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province, Guzhen, Zhongshan is also “China’s lighting production base”. Ningbo Yuyao City, ‘China’s hometown of lamps and lanterns’ – Lianglang Town; other areas such as Dongguan, Guangdong, Huizhou, and Shenzhen is the largest in the eastern part of the Pearl River Delta region The lighting industry belt is also the largest and strongest in China, with well-known lighting companies such as Leishi and TCL. The industry belt is mainly dominated by large enterprises, especially Hong Kong, Taiwan, and overseas large enterprises, with its brand products as the core competitiveness, but the products are concentrated in the production of lighting fixtures.
3. Towel industrial cluster
Gao Yang County, Hebei Province: Towels account for one-third of the total output of the country and are named “strong textile county” by the provincial government. With products sold all over the country and exported to more than 30 countries and regions such as Russia and South Korea. Other places such as Anji, Huzhou, Zhejiang, bamboo fiber towels, Guangzhou, Guangdong, Yiwu, Zhejiang, etc. are distributed.
4. Pet food industry cluster
The “Hometown of Pet Food in China” – Nanhe County, Hebei Province, with 40 large-scale pet food production enterprises, more than 330 registered pet food brands. And annual production and sales of pet food amounting to 650,000 tons, accounting for 60% of the country’s output, was awarded the “Hometown of Pet Food in China” by China. Association for the Promotion of International Cooperation in Agriculture Pet Industry Committee awarded “China Pet Food Township”, has become the largest pet food production base in the country.
5. Swimwear industrial cluster
Xingcheng, Huludao, Liaoning Province, where swimwear products are exported to more than 20 countries and regions such as Russia, the United States, Europe, and Southeast Asia. Accounting for 40% of the sales of the national swimwear market and 20% of the global market is the largest swimwear production base in China. Other places include Jinjiang, Fujian and Yiwu, Zhejiang.
6. Guitar industrial cluster
“China’s guitar industry capital” – Huiyang, Guangdong, guitar production has accounted for 60% of China, 25% of the world, the ukulele is 80% of global sales.
“China’s guitar manufacturing hometown” – Zheng’an, Guizhou.
China’s third-largest guitar production base – Zhangzhou Xiangcheng.
“Guitar town” – Weifang Tangyu town in Shandong, electric guitar production accounted for about one-third of the total national output, more than 80% of the products exported to South Korea, the United States, and Australia, and more than 30 countries and regions.
7. Home appliance industrial cluster
Hefei, Anhui Province, the “China home appliance industry base”, has been the top city in China for many years in terms of production of the “four major components” (air conditioners, color TVs, washing machines, and refrigerators).
8. Small home appliance industrial cluster
Beijiao, Shunde, Guangdong Province – microwave ovens, air conditioners, electric fans, and small home appliances, are among the world’s largest and most complete supporting production bases, China’s largest white home appliance production base, and export base.
Has China’s largest and most complete air conditioning industry chain and microwave oven industry chain, has China’s largest and most complete small home appliance product.
It also has the largest and most complete air conditioning industry chain and microwave oven industry chain, the largest and most complete small home appliance product group and kitchen appliance product group in China, with more than 3,000 home appliance production and supporting enterprises, and the output value accounts for about 15% of the national home appliance industry.
9. Toy industrial cluster
The three major toy production bases are Chenghai City in Shantou City, Guangdong Province, and Anhai Town in Jinjiang, Fujian Province, and Shanghai. Chenghai toy production accounted for 25% of the country, more than 75% of the toy export range Europe and the United States, the Middle East, South America, ASEAN, Russia, and other more than 140 countries and regions, as well as “China The “capital of teaching toys” Wenzhou Yongjia Qiaoxia town, Xiongan New Area of the plush toy industry.
10. Oil painting industrial cluster
Shenzhen, Putian, and Xiamen are the three largest oil painting industry bases in the world. At present, Xiamen Wushipu oil painting village and Shenzhen’s Dafen oil painting village and ranked as the world’s largest commercial oil painting production base, including Shenzhen Dafen village decorative oil painting once accounted for more than 70% of the global market share, known as the “world’s first village of oil painting”, Putian oil painting industry in the city’s annual output value of more than 1.5 billion yuan, accounting for the global oil painting production 30% of the world’s oil painting production, training nearly 20,000 painters, painters.
11. Children’s clothing industrial cluster
Top Three children’s clothing industry bases – Zhejiang Huzhou weaving town( weaving town children’s clothing market accounts for the share of 30% of the country, 60%-70% of online children’s clothing produced here)
Guangdong Dongguan region(denim cloth did very well)
Shandong Qingdao Jimo ( early times Jimo mostly produced OEM orders for Japanese and Korean, the workmanship is relatively high, especially baby clothes).
12. Erotic lingerie industrial cluster
Jiangsu Lianyungang Gouyun County – Erotic lingerie accounts for more than 60% of national network sales and contracts 80% of China’s graduation school uniforms.
13. Underwear industrial cluster
Shantou Chaoyang, Guangdong, is the largest, most complete industry chain, the most comprehensive underwear area.
Yanbu, Nanhai, Guangdong: the first to enter the lingerie second-line market, market-oriented, regionalized operation of the board.
Guangdong Shenzhen Gongming: the earliest processing area for the world’s leading brands, attracting many big brands nesting place.
Guangdong Zhongshan Xiaolan: low-key development, the world’s largest underwear production base.
Jinjiang, Fujian Shenhu: a single-mindedly doing lingerie export board
Zhejiang Yiwu: the rising star of the underwear industry, the largest production region of seamless underwear.
Shanghai: China’s top brands of underwear convergence zone.
Zhejiang Wenzhou: not so popular, very moderate area.
14. Optical industrial cluster
Jiangsu Danyang, glasses, lenses annual output of more than 300 million, accounting for 40% of the global, 70% of the domestic market, the world’s largest lens production base. And other Wenzhou Ouhai District, Zhejiang, Jiangxi Yingtan, Xiamen, Fujian, Shenzhen Henggang, etc.
15. Home textile and home decoration industrial cluster
Jiangsu Nantong’s home textiles(all kinds of beddings), Zhejiang Shaoxing’s curtains, Zhejiang Yiwu’s home decorations, Tianjin’s carpets, and Gaoyang towels.
16. Wig industrial cluster
The country’s largest wig production base – Henan Xuchang, a century of history, sold worldwide. The wig business feeds more than 200,000 people, at least 6 of every 10 wigs in the world from Xuchang
17. Mask industrial cluster
Changyuan City Henan Province, Xiantao City Hubei Province, Shaoxing City Zhejiang Province, Zibo City Shandong Province are the biggest mask industry area. Where is the largest impact of the epidemic in Hubei Xiantao City is “the hometown of Chinese masks”, production capacity accounted for sixty percent of the country. But because of the impact of the epidemic, the late mask industry pattern may be some changes.
18. Sports shoe industrial cluster
The largest production base of sports shoes in China is in Jinjiang City, Fujian Province. Chen Dai of Jinjiang is the largest footwear production (production is currently 8.5% of the world), processing, and trading base in China.
The products are complete, and there are superb production facilities and a complete cluster of enterprises, and a large number of brand-name enterprises with mature markets. Jinjiang has more than 3,000 footwear manufacturing and operating enterprises with an annual output of more than 700 million pairs and an annual output value of more than 20 billion RMB, and the products are exported to more than 80 countries and regions in the world.
19. Women’s Shoe industrial cluster
Chengdu Wuhou District, the “Women’s Shoes Capital of China”, with nearly 100,000 employees, the company has formed a large-scale industry with integrated production and sales, annual output of more than 100 million pairs of leather shoes, and an annual output value of more than 5 billion yuan.
Among them, there are more than 1,100 women’s shoe production enterprises, accounting for more than 90% of the total number of footwear enterprises in the region, and the output of women’s shoes accounts for 98% of the region’s shoe output, ranking third in the country. Women’s shoe production bases are also in Huizhou, Dongguan, Wenzhou, Chongqing, etc.
20. Garment industrial cluster
Women’s clothing is mainly in Guangzhou city, Guangdong Province, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province and Humen city, Shenzhen city, Guangdong Province. And men’s clothing is mainly in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, Quanzhou Shishi, Fujian Province, shirts are mainly in Puning, Guangdong Province, Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, Dachan Town, etc. The garment industry belt involves too many categories, and each subdivision category has an advantageous origin.
21. Socks industrial cluster
The largest sock production base in China is Datang Town, Zhuji City, Zhejiang Province, the largest cotton sock production base in China is Liaoyuan, Jilin, and the famous sock town of Lishui, Foshan, Guangdong.
22. Cosmetic brush industrial cluster
Luyi County of Henan Province, the “hometown of Chinese cosmetic brushes”, is the largest production base of cosmetic brushes in China. The rest have Hebei Cangzhou, Guangdong Shenzhen, Zhejiang Yiwu, and other places.
23. Cosmetics industrial cluster
Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province is the largest and most complete cosmetics production base in the country, Guangzhou, Zhuhai, Zhongshan, Dongguan, Huizhou, Shenzhen, and other places also have more cosmetics processing plants, as well as the “beauty town” in Wuxing District, Huzhou, Zhejiang Province, which is currently under construction, the “beauty town “in Datang Town, Sanshui District, Foshan, and the Oriental Beauty Valley in Fengxian District, Shanghai.
24. Small Commodity industrial cluster
Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, as the world’s largest distribution center for small commodities, its current largest market in Yiwu International Trade City, the market currently has 43 industries, 1,900 major categories, 1.7 million kinds of goods, including almost all crafts, accessories, small hardware, daily-use department stores, rain gear, electronic appliances, toys, cosmetics, literature and sports, hosiery, by-products, clocks and watches, thread and tapes, needle and cotton, textiles, ties Clothing and all daily-use industrial products.
Among them, the production and sales of accessories and toys account for 1/3 of the national market! At the same time, because of the development of the Yiwu Commodity Market, the formation of Yiwu as the center of Shaoxing, Taizhou, Lishui, and other places linked to the small commodity industry belt, promoting the development of market industry clusters.
25. Fishing tackle industrial cluster
The largest fishing tackle production bases in China are Weihai, Shandong, “the hometown of Chinese fishing tackle” – Gu’an, Hebei, and Cixi and Dongyang, Zhejiang
26. Walkie-talkie industrial cluster
Fujian Xiamen, Quanzhou, and Shenzhen Huaqiang North.
27. 3C Electronic products industrial cluster
The first look at Shenzhen, Guangdong, the largest electronic product distribution center Huaqiang North, laying a piece of hair in the easiest place to start, do the basic electronic products Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Dongguan three places enough to meet the needs of sellers.
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