Basic Facts
"Made in Dongguan", a new term which is popular within manufacturing circles and has become prestigious throughout the world. Dongguan, located in the Mid-South of China's Guangdong Province and at the core of Pearl River Delta as well as in the center of Guangdong-Shenzhen-Hong Kong economic belt, is the gateway for water and land transportation between Guangzhou and Hong Kong and is the important economic corridor between the two regions. Dongguan ranks behind only Shenzhen, Shanghai and Suzhou in exports among Chinese cities.
Dongguan Shoes
Dongguan currently has near 1,200 leather shoes manufacturers with over 300,000 employees. Of the yearly production of 1 billion pairs of shoes, 536 million pairs are exported with an export value of US$843 million. The yearly demand for shoe materials and shoe-making equipment exceeds a total value of 5 billion RMB. More than 10% of the global shoe products are imported from Dongguan, with a coverage of over 100 countries and regions.
Baocheng International Group, the biggest transnational shoes group in the world, established Yu Yuan Shoes Factory in Dongguan, and set up Yu Yuan Industrial Park in 1988, moving 10 of its subsidiary modernized factories of large scale including Bao Tai Shoes Factory, Bao Liang Shoes Materials Factory, etc. into the Industrial Park Zone.
