How is the furniture industry in Dongguan City? In which places are they mainly concentrated?

Furniture is one of the eight traditional pillar industries in Dongguan. Since the Song Dynasty, Dongjiang wood has been discharged by waterways to Shilong, Guancheng and Humen. Dongguan's woodware industry has been quite prosperous, forming Dongguan's largest handmade furniture industry. During the Qing Dynasty, there were many furniture, pot and bucket shops in the three major towns. The development of Dongguan's modern furniture industry mainly began in the 1970s and 1980s. At that time, taking advantage of Dongguan's favorable location, the gradual opening of the market and the good momentum of foreign trade, a group of collective, private and Hong Kong-funded enterprises took the lead in development. In the late 1980s and 1990s, a number of Taiwan-funded enterprises such as Taisheng settled in and developed, driving the rapid and vigorous development of the entire Dongguan furniture industry.

Now, Dongguan is an important furniture manufacturing base in China and even the world, and has formed a strong industrial cluster. According to incomplete statistics, the total output value of Dongguan's furniture industry in 2009 was nearly 70 billion yuan, and the total export volume was more than 3 billion US dollars. There are more than 3,000 furniture and ancillary companies here, including a large number of large elite companies such as Taisheng, Yunshitong, Guangrun, and Fubao. Here, there are Dalingshan Town, "China's No. 1 Furniture Export Town" and "China Furniture Export Town", "Oriental Furniture Capital", "China's Famous Exhibition Town" - Houjie Town, and domestic large-scale timber trading market - - "Jilong Timber Market", "Xingye Timber Market". The "International Famous Furniture (Dongguan) Exhibition" held in March and September every year brings together domestic and foreign companies and buyers in Dongguan.