The history of yingtan's glasses industry, the hometown of glasses

Zhongtong Town, yujiang county County, yingtan (almost next to Yingtan City) is located in a hilly area with a large population and few fields, but it has been operating glasses for more than 200 years. As early as the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a glasses processing workshop in Zhongtong Town, and glasses began to go to the whole country from here. After the reform and opening up, nearly 50,000 people in yujiang county County, with a population of only 360,000, are engaged in the sales of glasses at home and abroad, while in Zhongtong Town, with a population of only 30,000, there are more than 65,438+2,000 people selling glasses all the year round, and the whole town has formed a situation that "every village has a large number of glasses sellers, and every household has an expert in selling glasses". Present situation of industrial development

The salespeople who went out from yujiang county County not only traveled all over China, but also gradually expanded to dozens of countries such as Russia, Brazil and the United States. There are more than 300 yingtan people selling glasses in Moscow alone. With this sales team, yingtan Optical Shop has opened more than 20,000 optical shops around the world, with annual sales revenue exceeding 6 billion yuan. Driven by middle-aged children, yingtan glasses market became one of the four largest glasses markets in China in the early 1990s, with more than 120 merchants entering the market. Middle-aged children picked out the world-famous reputation of "the hometown of glasses" with a pole.

In 2002, yujiang county County (International) Glasses Industrial Park started construction. Due to the reputation of "the hometown of glasses", many glasses manufacturers are optimistic about the good industrial base and profound glasses culture here. At the beginning of the construction of the park, the one-time contracted funds reached 654.38+0.2 billion yuan. Over the years, 55 manufacturers of glasses have been introduced into the park, initially forming a characteristic industrial park integrating R&D, processing and trade circulation of glasses. June 2006165438+1October was named as "Jiangxi Glasses Industry Base".