Guzhen Town is situated at the northwest periphery of the city of Zhongshan with a distance of 23 km from the city. The town is famous for its lighting fitting and equipment industries. The population of Guzhen Town is of an estimation of 63,000 permanent residents and 20,000 outsiders.
Geography
The west of Guzhen Town is facing a sub-stream of Xi Jiang, which forms part of the Pearl River basin. Jiangmen is on the other side of the river. Foshan is next to Guzhen Town to the north, while Xiaolan Town is to the east and Henglan Town to the south.
Economics
Lighting and fitting equipment industry
Dubbed China Lighting Capital by China Light Industry Council and China Association of Lighting Industry. Guzhen Town is the largest production base of lighting fittings in China and one of the top four distributing centres of lighting fittings worldwide. Guzhen's lighting fittings products controlled 60% of the national market.
The development of the lighting fittings industry in Guzhen can be tracked back to the late 1970s when products such as table lamps and emergency lamps produced by TVEs were sold in the western region of China. Nevertheless with the support of the government in terms of capital, land and policies, the first wave of development took place from the mid-1980s to early 1990s. Following the great success of the first China (Guzhen) International Lighting Fair held in 1999, Guzhen's lighting fittings industry has undergone an unprecedented growth in the years around the year of millennium.
A wide variety of lighting fittings products, ranging from crystal lamps, table lamps, wall lamps, ceiling lamps, palace lamps, pendant lamps and garden lamps to spotlights for stage lighting, are produced in Guzhen. These made-in Guzhen lighting fitting products are not only sold in domestic market, but also popular worldwide, with large markets in the U.S., the Middle East, South Africa, and Europe. Awarded ISO 9002 and other quality certificates issued by China, the U.S., the European Commission, and Canada, Guzhen's lighting fittings products are guaranteed with high quality and considered to be very competitive at home and overseas. Nevertheless, further development of Guzhen's lighting fitting industry, to a very large extent, depends on a sizeable number of creative, innovative professionals, and more and more new product designs, which are in short supply at present.
The lighting industrial chain located in the core of guzhen town, expanding to other towns such as Henglan, Xiaolan, Jiangmen Hetang and Waihai. The industrial chain is rising to prosperous and has became a huge industrial cluster, the production value reach nearly100 billion RMB.
