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Pet food (dry food, treats); calls itself (China's pet industry capital) About 8,500 pet-industry and related businesses plus 8,300 e-commerce sellers.

Pet food and treats, freeze-dried food, pet treadmills and other hardware Pet food exports above 4 billion yuan, about one-third of China's total.

Rawhide chews (from leather offcuts), leashes and harnesses, pet toys, pet food

Pet food production Shandong and Hebei together produce nearly 70% of China's pet food.

Daily-use ceramics: tableware, ceramic sanitary ware, giftware About 25% of China's daily-use ceramics output and about 30% of its daily-use ceramics exports (both No. 1 nationally).

Vacuum flasks, cups and kettles, cookware, hardware Over 70% of China's cup and kettle output and exports.

Kitchen knives, scissors, kitchen tools and cookware 75% of China's knife and scissor output and 85% of its knife and scissor exports.

Sofas, upholstered furniture, furniture materials and components Nearly 3,000 furniture makers.

Office chairs, chairs and sofas, bamboo furniture One in three chairs made in China comes from Anji, and it supplies about half of China's chair exports.

Solid-wood furniture (beds, dining sets, cabinets) 2025 furniture cluster revenue above 290 billion yuan (2,900).

Outdoor furniture, parasols and awnings, garden and leisure products (home of Zhejiang Yongqiang) More than 1,000 related firms by 2025.

Bedding sets, quilts and duvets, pillows, bed linen 2,500+ upstream and downstream firms.

Curtain and upholstery fabrics, warp-knit home textiles About 35% of China's home-textile market (curtain/upholstery fabric).

Towels, bath towels, blankets More than 4,200 firms in the towel supply chain (spinning through dyeing and logistics).

Curtains, sofa fabrics, bedding

Plastic, electronic, AI and IP/collectible toys, building blocks, RC toys; 'China toy & gift capital' 68,000+ toy production/trading units.

Strollers, kids' ride-on and electric children's vehicles 300+ children's vehicle makers producing over 10 million units/yr, 1,300+ patents, sold to 100+ countries (China News, Apr 2025).

Kids' bikes, children's vehicles, ride-on toys; branded 'China children's vehicle capital' Its 22nd expo (Oct 2026) drew 1,700+ exhibiting companies and 10,000+ buyers from 50+ countries (Xinhua).

Wooden toys, wooden educational toys, puzzles; 'China wooden toy hometown' 1,100+ wooden toy manufacturers, exporting to 80+ countries (China News, Aug 2026).

Plush/stuffed toys and soft gifts Annual output over RMB 20 billion, exports about RMB 3-4 billion/yr (Yangzhou Evening News, Oct 2025).

Christmas decorations, festive and party goods, small gifts (20,000+ Christmas product categories) Christmas goods exports RMB 4.75 billion in Jan-Aug 2026 (+10.9%).

Wood carving, bamboo weaving, carved wooden furniture and crafts 1,300+ wood-carving/bamboo/furniture firms, 60,000+ workers.

Ceramic gifts and figurines, porcelain tableware, tea sets, seasonal ceramic ornaments 4,500+ ceramics firms with over 100,000 workers (Oct 2025).

Classical carved furniture, wood/stone crafts, art and craft goods 2,300+ craft firms, 200,000+ workers.

Printed packaging, paper bags and boxes, labels, gift and collectible-toy packaging, printing machinery 886 licensed printing firms and about 47,000 related business entities.

Carton and corrugated box machinery, packaging machinery (known nationally as a carton machinery base) Its 2026 carton machinery fair had 331 exhibitors and about 25,000 visitors (trade-fair listing).

Plastic packaging, film bags, packaging printing, latex balloons About 4,000 plastics firms.

Office stationery: staplers, binder clips, pencil sharpeners, glue sticks, cutters (home of Deli) 772 stationery makers with RMB 34.55 billion sales in 2024, about 20.2% of China's stationery manufacturing.

Ballpoint, gel and marker pens, pen components (tips, balls) Nearly 900 pen and component firms.

Wooden pencils 10 billion pencils/yr, over 40% of China's output.

Erasers and stationery gifts About 600 million erasers/yr, output RMB 230 million, 2,500+ designs.

Exercise books and notebooks Capacity over 600 million books/yr, output over RMB 200 million.

Cosmetics OEM/ODM, skincare, colour cosmetics; Guangzhou is China's largest cosmetics manufacturing city Jan–Sep 2026: 684 above-scale cosmetics firms in Baiyun, output ~36.1 billion yuan (+19.7%).

Cosmetics brands and contract makers, nail polish, skincare; upstream/downstream beauty supply chain 300+ beauty supply-chain firms.

Colour cosmetics (makeup) manufacturing and export, plus cosmetics trading/agents 169 cosmetics manufacturers (80%+ colour cosmetics), 300+ supporting firms.

Newer cluster: cosmetics ODM (Jiaheng), cosmetics equipment, sterilisation, polymer raw materials and a high-end cosmetic packaging project 10 beauty-related projects of 100 million yuan+ each attracted.

Human-hair and synthetic wigs, hair extensions; world's largest hair-products distribution and export base About 6 in 10 wigs worldwide.

Hair extensions, wigs, raw-hair processing ~1,000 business entities, ~100,000 jobs.

False eyelashes (largest cluster in China) 5,000+ operators, ~60,000 workers, ~120 million pairs exported a year, output ~10 billion yuan.

Sports shoes, sportswear, shoe materials; full chain within 50 km About 1 in 5 sports shoes worldwide.

Children's clothing and school uniforms About 2 billion kidswear pieces a year, sales near 100 billion yuan, shipped to 165 countries.

Womenswear and fashion apparel, livestream/e-commerce apparel

Bags, luggage, backpacks, leather goods 4,000+ manufacturers, ~1 billion bags a year, output 47.1 billion yuan, ~30% of domestic market.

Leather handbags, bags and leather goods Guangzhou official described the Guangzhou bag belt (incl. Shiling) as the world's largest bag/leather-goods cluster, selling to 150+….

Freshwater pearls: farming, processing, pearl jewellery, livestream wholesale (East China International Jewelry City) About 80% of China's and 70% of world freshwater pearl output.

Crystal and gemstone beads, bracelets, carvings; crystal raw-stone trading and livestream e-commerce Crystal trade 48.3 billion yuan Jan–Aug 2026 (66.7% via e-commerce).

Door/security doors & smart locks, power tools, cookware, thermos cups, leisure vehicles, cleaning tools 800+ door makers, 300+ smart-lock makers and 1,500+ supporting firms (People's Daily China City News, Aug 2024).

Kitchen knives, scissors, blades, hardware cutting tools, plus parts and blade machinery ~75% of China's knife/scissor output and ~85% of exports.

Power tools (drills, grinders etc.), e.g. Dongcheng Power tools named a local pillar industry.

Decorative lighting, chandeliers, commercial/LED fixtures, lighting components 40+ years of development.

Full chain from light sources to finished fixtures; large lighting wholesale market ~1,300 lighting manufacturers (2024).

Outdoor furniture, awnings, parasols, garden products (home of Zhejiang Yongqiang) 1,000+ related enterprises by 2025.

Trekking/hiking poles and related outdoor gear ~15 million trekking poles a year, >75% of national output of the category.

Waterproof outdoor shell jackets 300+ makers producing ~60% of national output.

Tents, camping equipment Tent exports RMB 796m in Jan–Aug 2026, up 6.3% y/y.

Tents in a textile/outdoor industrial park (e.g. Henan Beisili) Local textile-outdoor park supports ~20,000 jobs.

Commercial & home fitness equipment (strength, cardio, outdoor fitness) ~3,000 fitness firms.

Badminton, tennis, table-tennis, beach and pickleball rackets 200+ firms making ~150 million rackets a year, output >RMB 2bn.

Home fitness gear (dumbbells, exercise bikes etc.), e-commerce oriented

Electronics wholesale and component market: phones and accessories, components, consumer gadgets, AI hardware and robot parts; also R&D and small-batch makers About 1.45 km² with 115,000 businesses.

Small appliances: irons, hair dryers, heaters, coffee machines, kitchen and personal-care appliances, plus a deep parts supply base More than 2,000 finished-appliance makers and nearly 10,000 parts suppliers.

Large and small home appliances (Midea's home base), kitchen appliances, appliance parts Appliance output of nearly RMB 370bn in 2022 from more than 3,000 makers and suppliers.

Small kitchen and home appliances at OEM/ODM scale; host of the China Household Appliances Trade Fair The 37th trade fair (Mar 2026) linked to more than 10,000 appliance makers in the northern Zhongshan belt and drew 69,000 trade buyers….

Construction machinery OEMs (Sany, Zoomlion, Sunward), R&D and standards; host of CICEE Described by Hunan Daily as the 'brain and heart' of Hunan's construction-machinery chain, home to Sany and Zoomlion.

Used and remanufactured construction machinery trading, repair and export (excavators and loaders to Southeast Asia and Africa) Xiangtan has the largest used-equipment trading market in central China.

Cranes, pile drivers, loaders and excavators (XCMG, Caterpillar) and a large supply chain Cluster has reached the RMB 100bn+ level, with more than 100 large firms and 300+ supply-chain companies.

Construction and mining machinery (Shantui, Komatsu Shantui) plus a cluster of small-excavator and mini-machinery makers Local suppliers provide more than 70% of the parts for complete machines (Tencent News, Aug 2026).

Natural stone import, processing and trade: marble and granite slabs, large-format panels, stone products A RMB 100bn-scale stone cluster with thousands of firms, handling more than 70% of China's domestic stone import/export trade (Haisi….

Stone processing (slabs, prefabricated stone, artificial stone) and stone machinery More than 7,000 stone businesses and about RMB 350bn in 2024 gross industrial output.

Ceramic tiles, sanitary ceramics, the China Ceramics City trade market and the Tanzhou ceramics show Ceramics output of about RMB 120bn in 2025 (preliminary figure, Foshan Ceramics Industry Association via Qianzhan).

Taps, valves, plumbing fittings, sanitaryware and kitchen/bath hardware Industry estimates put the Nan'an plumbing and sanitaryware cluster at more than RMB 100bn in output.

General merchandise wholesale: toys, gifts, hardware, stationery, household goods, festive goods Nearly 80,000 stalls with more than 2.1 million product types.

China's largest cluster of specialised wholesale markets plus a logistics hub: building materials, hardware, small commodities, vehicles Market turnover of RMB 646.5bn and a logistics total of RMB 1.01 trillion in Jan–Nov 2025 (Sina Finance, Jan 2026).