Yucheng County is the "China Steel Tape City" with an annual output of 1.5 billion steel tape measures. Its production and sales account for more than 85% of the national market, and its export volume accounts for more than 60% of the national total.
Every afternoon, the logistics park in the industrial zone of Yucheng County, Henan Province is the busiest. Boxes of steel tape measures printed in English, Korean, Japanese, Russian and other languages were loaded onto logistics trucks and transported from here to various domestic ports, and then exported to all over the world.
Shaogang Town is the core production area of steel tape measures in Yucheng County. It employs 200,000 people and has the largest professional wholesale market for steel tape measures in the central region. It is known as the "No. 1 Steel Tape Town in China". Because a large number of steel tape measures are produced here and exported overseas, Shaogang Town has also become the "barometer" of the world's steel tape measure market.
Among the "gold digs" in the waste pile, the vast plains of eastern Henan and fertile fields stretch as far as the eye can see. Shaogang Town was once an ordinary town among them. In the 1980s, Shaogang people went out to work. They picked up the discarded steel tape bars from the steel tape measure factory. After simple cutting and processing, they rode their bicycles through the streets and sold them. They made the first pot of gold in the steel tape measure manufacturing industry. In this way, he was "brought back" to the land of eastern Henan. By the 1990s, the first steel tape measure factories were born in Shaogang Town. Small family workshops began to transform into mechanized manufacturing. In 1995, through independent research and development or the introduction of a complete set of equipment, some steel tape measures in Shaogang Town began to realize automated production. The production technology and facilities reached the advanced level of the industry at that time. Leveraging on the large domestic wholesale market, Shaogang Town produced high-quality and cost-effective steel tape measures. Go nationwide. After 30 years of development, the steel tape measure industry in Shaogang Town has become very mature. This small town with a registered population of only 82,000 people has 582 large-scale enterprises and more than 4,200 small and micro enterprises. A steel tape measure factory and a hardware factory are located next to each other. One family, one street from beginning to end, including ruler head hook, tape, casing, spring, gear, tail strap... all the parts needed for a steel tape measure are available, making it a veritable "steel tape measure kingdom". In the 21st century, with the help of the Canton Fair and participating in overseas exhibitions, Shaogang Town steel tape measures began to go abroad and pursue the international market. Shaogang Town steel tape measures are sold in more than 120 countries and regions in Europe, Africa, and America. outlets, annual export earnings of more than 40 million US dollars, and a small steel tape measure to start the journey of measuring the world.
Today, by participating in domestic and foreign trade fairs online and offline, Yucheng County is deeply developing traditional markets such as the European Union, Japan and South Korea, and vigorously exploring emerging markets such as Africa, Latin America, ASEAN, and Central Asia.
It also strengthens trade with countries along the “Belt and Road” and promotes the steel tape measure to accelerate its entry into the global market.
china news agency
August 17, 2023 16:18