Household products can be subdivided into five categories: furniture, bedding, kitchen and bathroom products, household appliances and daily necessities. As the world's largest producer and exporter of household products, China occupies an important position in the global furniture export trade. This article introduces to you the main production and bases in China for each household product category.

Furniture

The South China Furniture Industrial Zone, centered on the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong, has industrial clusters, industrial supply chains and brand advantages. This area is adjacent to Hong Kong and Macao, has abundant labor resources, furniture manufacturing started early, and furniture output value accounts for one-third of the country's total. Products are mostly exported to the American market. The Pearl River Delta furniture industry cluster, centered on Guangzhou, Zhongshan, Foshan, Shunde, Shenzhen and other areas in Guangdong Province, is the largest furniture industry area in China.

Guangdong is the country's leading furniture production and sales place. According to incomplete statistics, there are more than 6,000 furniture companies in the province, with more than 1 million employees. It makes full use of its own advantages, uses modern information technology, constantly transforms and improves the technical level of the furniture industry, and maintains the industry's production and sales advantages. Dongguan Houjie is the most famous for furniture manufacturing and exhibition services, and Dalingshan Town is known as the first in my country's furniture exports. Town; Shunde, Foshan has built an integrated base for furniture production, sales, accessories and wholesale. Lecong Town has become the largest furniture distribution center in southern China. Dalingshan Town, Dongguan and Longjiang Town, Shunde District, Foshan, have become the production base of furniture and supporting materials. Furniture production center.

Bedclothes
The world's home textiles look to China, and Chinese home textiles look to Nantong. As early as 2021, the total annual transaction volume of Nantong's home textile market exceeded 230 billion yuan, single-handedly supplying more than 60% of the global market. The base's annual sales of bedding products are 60 billion yuan, and it has formed a complete industrial chain integrating spinning, weaving, printing and dyeing, finished products, packaging and sales. There are 415 import and export enterprises, with self-operated export volume exceeding US$1 billion, including 24 enterprises with exports exceeding US$10 million. At the same time, the Nantong Industrial Base also has one of the largest bedding trading markets in the country - Nantong Home Textile City, with a total planned area of 12.5 square kilometers, a total investment of 10 billion yuan, an operating area of 1.7 million square meters, and warehousing and logistics, There are five functional areas including R&D and design, product display, conference and exhibition, and life services.
Not only that, the annual output of Nantong home textile bedding products has exceeded 1.2 billion pieces, with an average production capacity of 1,350 sets, 670 quilts and 340 pillows per minute, accounting for half of the national home textile market. The daily volume of express parcels exceeds 2.4 million, with an average of 1,680 parcels sent to all parts of the country every minute. The "Nantong Home Textile Index" has become an important benchmark in the industry.

Houme appliances

The world's first DVD, the first variable-capacity refrigerator, the first bionic washing machine, China's first microcomputer, the first window air conditioner... These "firsts" are all produced in Hefei, and the home appliance industry has become Hefei's largest One of the most representative industries, and eventually made Hefei become "the largest home appliance production base in the country"

According to data released in July 2022, there are more than 90 regulated enterprises in Hefei's home appliance industry, employing more than 80,000 people, and paying annual taxes of more than 3 billion yuan. The area is home to seven internationally renowned brands: Whirlpool, Haier, Midea, Gree, TCL, Changhong, and BOE. Haier has built three major parks in the Hefei Economic and Technological Development Zone, with an annual production capacity of more than 15 million units; BOE has built the country's first 6-mile chain in Hefei. Generation, 8.5 generation and the world's first 10.5 generation LCD panel production lines have brought an overall upgrade to Hefei's home appliance industry chain. In 2022, Hefei's output of home appliances will rank first among all cities in the world for the twelfth consecutive year, and the entire industry chain will exceed 100 billion.

In the first half of 2023, Hefei's total import and export volume was 155.79 billion yuan, of which export volume was 107.93 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 1.2%. Compared with the same period five years ago, the export volume doubled.

Kitchen and bathroom supplies
China Kitchen Capital is located in Xingfu Town, Boxing County, Shandong Province. It is the largest stainless steel kitchen utensils manufacturer in China and the largest black and white iron wholesale price production and processing center north of the Yangtze River. As one of the leading industries in Boxing County, the commercial kitchen equipment (covering 12 series of products such as gas stoves, induction cookers, and freezers) manufacturing industry has continued to develop, from small to large, forming a complete product range from raw materials, spare parts, design and development , production and processing, modern service industry and other complete industrial chains, completing the rapid development of industrial clusters. Kitchen products manufactured in China's kitchens are sold all over the world, serving more than one billion people every year.
Quanzhou is China's largest export base for disposable sanitary products. There are 79 exporting disposable sanitary product manufacturers. The main products include sanitary napkins, infant diapers, paper towels, wet wipes, kitchen paper and other 11 varieties. According to statistics, in 2023 In the first half of the year, a total of 3,620 batches of disposable sanitary products were exported, with a value of US$202 million, showing a substantial growth trend. They were exported to 121 countries and regions including the United States, the European Union, the Philippines, and Australia.