Editor’s Note
This article highlights Chenghai’s status as a global toy manufacturing hub, detailing its scale, market dominance, and key players. The information is based on industry reports and official data.
Chenghai is hailed as the “Toy Capital of China” and is the country’s, even the world’s, most complete, largest-scale, and highest market share production and trade base for plastic toys. Toy 3C certification accounts for half of the national total. Representative enterprises include Auldey, Senbao Block, Yixing Technology, and Goldlok Precision, cultivating well-known IPs like “Xi Yangyang” (Pleasant Goat).
The Jieyang jewelry industry is renowned for its colored gemstone processing, with waterjet processing accounting for over 70% of the global market. The industry’s annual output value is approximately 35 billion yuan, possessing a complete industrial chain from design to sales. Products are exported to over 180 countries and regions worldwide. Representative enterprises and industrial clusters are mainly located in Kedu Town, Jiedong District, with well-known brands like Dali Jewelry and Yunshang Jewelry.
Yangjiang is known as the “Cutlery Capital of China.” The hardware cutlery market comprises over 8,500 entities. Local brands like Jincai, Shibazi, and Meijin Meili have rapidly risen, attracting well-known brands like Wangmazi and Zhang Xiaoquan to set up operations. The entire industry chain scale exceeds 55 billion yuan, with production volume accounting for about 70% of the national total and export volume about 85%. Products are sold in over 160 countries and regions.
In the 1980s, people from Zhongshan used a pair of pliers and dozens of parts to painstakingly create a “Kingdom of Electric Rice Cookers.” Today, Zhongshan is a nationally renowned “Small Household Appliance Industry Base in China,” with over 1,200 home appliance manufacturing enterprises, an annual output value exceeding 25 billion yuan, forming a relatively complete industrial chain from product R&D to foreign trade.
Chaozhou is the country’s main production area for sanitary ceramics. The smart toilet lid industry has rapidly risen in recent years. According to data from the China Building Sanitary Ceramics Association, in 2024, Chaozhou’s total sanitary ceramic output was 78.5 million pieces, accounting for about 43.3% of the national total; smart toilet seat production was 5.6 million sets, accounting for 31.4% of the national total, with the output value of leading enterprises nearing 2.2 billion yuan.
Puning City is the “Fashion Capital of Ready-to-Wear in China,” with over 3,000 enterprises and merchants engaged in the manufacturing and sales of ready-to-wear garments and accessories. It has a group of industry-leading enterprises like SIDANIU, BALENO, YISHION, GIORDANO, and JEANSWEST, possessing over 200 independent brands. Fashion products are hot sellers in over 170 countries and regions worldwide.
“Abundant, Rich, Beautiful, Famous”—these words fully express Yunfu’s profound heritage as the “Stone Capital of China.” It hosts the most complete industrial base for the stone material industry chain domestically and internationally. But Yunfu is not limited to stone; it excels even more in art—it has the solid foundation for the building materials industry and innovations like trendy toy IPs, colored stone mosaics, and minimalist home furnishings. The “stone heads” in Yunfu have broken through material boundaries, inspiring infinite possibilities.
These Guangdong goods never stop at just being “useful.”
They are also refined in the details to enhance quality.
They give rise to new vitality through innovation.
They embody the fusion of Lingnan ingenuity and technological innovation.
They steadily occupy the consumer C-position.
