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Chinese and Foreign Reporters Witnessed the Rural Revitalization of Qingdao, Shandong in the "Chinese Town of Hat-Making"
QINGDAO, China, April 28, 2023 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/--

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

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Source: Qingdao
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