I heard there is a large shoe wholesale center in Jinjiang

Fujian Jinjiang Shoe Wholesale Market

Date: February 12, 2007

The shoemaking industry is a traditional industry in Jinjiang, Fujian. It began to develop in the early 1980s. After experiencing entrepreneurial development from small to large, from family workshops to modern enterprises, it has basically formed a mature development stage of factory standardization, management modernization, production serialization, and benefit scale. It has become a national brand. The main shoe-making base and the world's tourism sports shoe production base. In March 2001, Jinjiang was jointly named "China's Shoe Capital" by four institutions including the China Leather and Shoemaking Industry Research Institute. Jinjiang City currently has more than 3,000 shoe manufacturing and operating enterprises, with more than 350,000 employees, an annual output of nearly 500 million pairs, and an annual output value of about 13 billion yuan. It has also cultivated a number of brands such as "Anta", "Aile", "Sanxing" and other well-known domestic shoe brands, as well as a number of major export companies such as "Huanqiu", "Guohui", "Hengren" and "iQi". Jinjiang produces a wide variety of footwear products with complete specifications, including hundreds of sports shoes, travel shoes, leather shoes, sandals, rubber shoes, casual shoes, fashion shoes, hiking shoes, beaded slippers, roller skates, snow shoes, labor protection shoes, etc. varieties and specifications, among which sports and travel shoes account for more than 60% of the city's total output and 1/4 of the country's total travel and sports shoe production. In 2000, Jinjiang accounted for the top 20 annual sales of national travel and sports shoe manufacturers. 8 homes. Wholesale Market Jinjiang does not yet have a well-established shoe wholesale market. Most companies set up negotiation venues and product showrooms inside factories, and buyers go directly to local companies to pick up their goods. However, billboards of various large and small companies can be seen everywhere on the streets of Jinjiang, so the wholesale atmosphere is also very strong. Buyers who come to Jinjiang to purchase footwear products come from all over the country and overseas, including Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Fuzhou, Xiamen and the United States, Japan, Eastern Europe, South America, Southeast Asia and other places. Jinjiang's annual footwear wholesale sales is about 7 billion yuan, and its export volume reaches 730 million US dollars. The development of Jinjiang's shoe industry has also led to the prosperity of the shoe materials and shoe machine markets in the region. In Chendai, a major footwear industry town, a several-kilometer-long "shoe material street" has been formed, integrating wholesale and retail of raw and auxiliary materials for the shoe industry. , storage and transportation, and shoe machine exhibition and sales are integrated operations. The entire shoe material market is about one kilometer long and has more than 300 merchants, mainly engaged in various types of shoe materials and shoemaking equipment. With an annual turnover of approximately 2 billion yuan, it is one of the largest shoe material markets in East China. In the "Shoe Material Street" you can buy almost all the raw materials required for the production of leather shoes and sports shoes (such as soles, leather fabrics, hardware buckles, labels, resin, etc.). In terms of shoe materials, the main operators are local enterprises, and in terms of shoemaking equipment, it is mainly foreign brands that have set up local agents or offices. Buyers mainly come from shoe-making companies in Jinjiang, Quanzhou, Shishi, Putian, Fuzhou, etc. The monthly rent for stores in this market ranges from about 40 to 60 yuan per square meter. Currently, the Jinjiang City and Chendai Town governments are building and managing an emerging Chendai Shoe Materials Trading Market covering an area of ??150,000 square meters with a total investment of 185 million yuan. It is expected to be completed and put into operation in 2004. Jinjiang International Shoe Expo Jinjiang holds the "Jinjiang International Shoe Expo" in April every year. Among the products exhibited at the expo, half are finished shoes, shoe machines and shoe materials. They are mainly sold in the domestic market, attracting a large number of domestic buyers. Come. According to statistics from the Jinjiang Municipal Government, the turnover of the "4th Jinjiang International Shoe Expo" in 2001 reached 2.46 billion yuan.

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