PR100058

QINGDAO, China, April 28, 2023 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/--

Recently, Xufang International Media of CICG, the CICG Center for Asia and

Pacific and the Information Office of the Qingdao Municipal People's Government

jointly organized an interview on the theme of "Perceiving the Charm of

Qingdao". Focusing on the theme of rural revitalization, correspondents from

China, the United States, Russia, Pakistan, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, New

Zealand and other countries paid a visit to the "town of hat-making" in

Jiaozhou, Qingdao of Shandong.

This is the Ligezhuang Town of Jiaozhou City, the famous "Chinese town of

hat-making". The town has a population of 120,000, from which 30% are engaged

in the industries relate to the hat-making. It has an annual yield of 500

million hats of all kinds and an annual output value of 4 billion yuan.

One-third of the world's baseball caps are manufactured here.

After gaining an in-depth understanding of the development history of the

town's hat-making industry at Qingdao Yaoqing Hat Making Co., Ltd., Chinese and

foreign reporters also went down to the workshop to experience part of the

hat-making process. "A baseball cap looks simple, but it is not easy to make.

There are more than 30 processes in a hat from fabric slicing to packaging.

There are strict operating specifications, whether about the early fabric

selection, the hat shape design, or the tailoring, the sewing, and the shaping

in the production process. The deviations of many processes are to be

controlled within millimeters," said the guide of the company. In the sample

exhibition hall, American reporter John Klump was very excited to see many

familiar hat styles from his childhood memory. He took turns to try on a

baseball cap and tried some street dance steps involuntarily.

It is said that since the birth of the first hat-making enterprise in 1985,

Ligezhuang Town has more than 600 full-chain enterprises, forming an industrial

matrix integrating raw material procurement, product design, processing and

manufacturing, logistics and transportation, and realizing the industry

patterns of "hat companies in every village" and "balancing all the industrial

supply and demand without leaving the town". Their products are exported to

more than 100 countries and regions in Europe, America, Latin America, Asia and

Africa. They have also formulated the first "national norm" for the production

of six-piece sports caps for the national hat-making industry. The locality is

planning and has completed the construction of an industrial park of 2 square

kilometers for hat accessories, and has created the Qingdao SCO Cross-border

E-commerce Industrial Park of 15,000 square meters at the moment. The "town of

hat-making" is making strides towards a "hat-making metropole" on the 10

billion-level.

Contact: Sun Jing

Contact number: 0086-532-85911619

Email: zhewen8112@163.com

Photo - https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/2065795/Qingdao.jpg

Logo - https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/1245709/4010948/Qingdao_Logo.jpg

Source: Qingdao