More than 1,300 Chinese and foreign companies participated in the exhibition, and "small hardware" in Shaodong, Hunan was sold overseas.

　　China News Service, Shaoyang, April 5 (Fu Jingyi and Deng Xingzhao) The 8th Hardware and Electrical and Mechanical Expo in Shaodong City, Hunan Province opened on the 5th. The exhibition hall area of ​​36,000 square meters attracted more than 1,300 domestic and foreign companies and more than 3,500 products. As the famous hometown of hardware in China, Shaodong City's hardware industry will achieve a GDP of 19.165 billion yuan in 2023, and more than 50% of its hardware products are exported to Hong Kong, Taiwan, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Europe and the United States.

The 8th Shaodong Hardware and Electrical and Mechanical Expo opens. Photo courtesy of Shaodong Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department

　　Shaodong City is a key economic county with characteristic metal tool manufacturing industry in Hunan Province and has the largest hardware and electrical market in Central and South China. Up to now, it has cultivated more than 3,500 hardware tool production and operating enterprises, more than 80 enterprises above designated size, a total of 1,557 registered hardware trademarks, more than 50,000 employees, and an annual production capacity of more than 300 million sets of wrenches, pliers, and hammers. Among them, wrench output accounts for more than 75% of the country's share.

　　Since 2017, Shaodong City, based on its advantages in the hardware and electromechanical industry, has continuously held hardware and electromechanical expos, successfully building an important platform for the industry to display hardware and electromechanical products, conduct business exchanges, promote technical cooperation, and promote project investment. It has attracted more than 5,000 companies to participate in the exhibition and trade. The amount exceeded 36 billion yuan. This expo has 7 exhibition areas including the Shaodong Pavilion and the International Pavilion, and there are 1,380 national standard pavilions.

It attracted more than 1,300 domestic and foreign companies and more than 3,500 products to participate in the exhibition. Photo courtesy of Shaodong Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department

　　Li Guojun, deputy secretary of the Shaodong Municipal Party Committee and Mayor, said in his speech that Shaodong strives to build a characteristic town and create a "golden" business card; improve the industrial chain and forge "golden" keys; broaden sales channels and find "golden" ideas; and through scientific and technological innovation "Intelligence empowers all enterprises", inserts "gold" wings, strives to build a hardware industry cluster of tens of billions, and uses the hardware industry to improve quality and efficiency to stand up the "backbone" of high-quality development of the county economy.

　　In recent years, Shaodong City has vigorously promoted the development of industrial clusters and built the Shaodong Hardware Technology Innovation Industrial Park. At the same time, it has provided R&D services to enterprises by establishing Shaodong Intelligent Manufacturing Technology Research Institute, intelligent equipment rapid processing centers, 3D printing and other high-end public service platforms. Guide the transformation and upgrading of hardware enterprises. With the Xianchaqiao Hardware Science and Technology Innovation Industrial Park as the core, Shaodong City’s hardware supporting processes can be completed within a radius of 5 kilometers, with a complete industrial chain. The small hardware industry cluster has been selected as the “small and medium-sized enterprise characteristic industrial cluster” in Hunan Province.

　　Relying on more than 30 professional markets such as Zhongnan Hardware Market, more than 200 logistics lines, more than 300 self-operated import and export enterprises, and more than 2,000 overseas sales platforms, Shaodong City has also built an industrial Internet digital industrial park led by China Industrial Silicon Valley. , driving 90% of the city’s hardware companies to go online.

　　At the opening ceremony, Shaodong City also held a project signing event, signing a total of 11 investment projects with a total contract value of 11.6 billion yuan. The projects involved metal intelligent manufacturing, resource recycling, cross-border e-commerce platform cooperation and other industries. (over)