Xianghe county, Hebei province, lies within the triangle of Beijing, Tianjin and Tangshan, and is 50 km from Beijing and 70 km from Tianjin. It is accessible via the Beijing-Shenyang Expressway and several other provincial-level highways.
Xianghe is 30 minutes from Beijing on the Beijing-Shenyang Expressway. Beijingers knew nothing of the market a few years ago, but it is now becoming increasingly well known.
The wholesale furniture market has expanded to its present scale of 500,000 sqm following the establishment of the 1,200 sqm Chuncheng Furniture City back in 1998. Today, it is the largest furniture wholesale and distribution centre in northern China and ranks third in the country after Shunde in Guangdong and Likou in Jiangsu.
Liu Fengshun, chairman of Xianghe Furniture City Management Committee, says Xianghe Furniture City makes use of trade fairs, expos and seminars to promote itself to domestic and foreign furniture dealers and tries to attract investment through online and media advertising.
The present Xianghe Furniture City has 23 exhibition halls and 2,300 enterprises, with products from Fujian, Zhejiang, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Beijing, Tianjin and other places. These companies produce, supply and market.
