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Jinjiang City Becomes Major Sports-Shoes Maker
Jinjiang City, in east China's Fujian Province, has become a major sports-shoes manufacturer, with an annual output value of 10 billion yuan (1.2 billion U.S. dollars), accounting for one quarter of the country's total.
The city's shoe-making industry was initiated in the 1980s when some local families opened small workshops to produce cheap sandals and slippers, but over the past two decades it has developed into a local industrial pillar, with over 2,000 shoe factories manufacturing 300 million pairs of sports shoes a year.
Since 1993, the city has made great efforts to boost exports as many local manufacturers have participated in international trade fairs or held shoe exhibitions abroad.
Now, Jinjiang-made sports shoes sell well all over the world and some 30 local businesses have set up branch agencies in foreign countries. More than 500 local companies have established business ties with foreign firms via the Internet.
Last year, Jinjiang exported sports shoes worth 4.7 billion yuan, about 36 percent of the city's total exports.
Meanwhile, factories making shoe materials and accessories have also mushroomed in Jinjiang, with the total annual output value now over two billion yuan.
Jinjiang is the native home to a large number of overseas Chinese and ancestral home of Taiwan compatriots.
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