Many people always ask me: How to find a good women’s shoe manufacturer in China? Recently, I have done a lot of research on shoe factories and visited more than 30 shoe factories in China. It is not difficult to find a shoe factory in China, but you have to consider many factors.
Many people always ask me: How to find a good women’s shoe manufacturer in China? Recently, I have done a lot of research on shoemaking and visited more than 30 shoe manufacturers in China. It is not difficult to find a shoe company in China, but you have to consider many shoe companies.
In China’s main footwear production areas:
Wenzhou Taizhou: all kinds of shoes
Tongxiang: leather shoes (especially women’s shoes)
1. Wenzhou, Taizhou
• Location: Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province
400 kilometers from Shanghai
•Quality level: medium quality, low quality
•Labor cost: very high
•Land cost: very high
• Material cost: medium
•Transportation cost: medium
•High risk of intellectual property rights
•Main products: men’s shoes, women’s shoes, children’s shoes, boots, sandals, safety shoes, etc.
Basic information: Wenzhou has more than 4,000 shoe-making companies that produce more than 1 billion pairs of different shoes each year, accounting for 25% of China’s total footwear output, one-eighth of the world. In September 2001, Wenzhou was officially named the Chinese shoe capital, supplying men’s shoes, women’s shoes, children’s shoes, boots, sandals, safety shoes, etc. In Wenzhou, most shoe factories are concentrated in Lucheng District, Yongjia County, and Ruian City. In addition, there are thousands of enterprises engaged in shoe-related businesses in Wenzhou, providing shoe machines, shoe accessories, soles and leather for shoe factories.
2. Guangzhou and Dongguan
•Working location: Guangzhou City, Dongguan City, Guangdong Province
•Quality level: high quality, medium quality, low quality
•Labor cost: high
•Land cost: medium
• Material cost: medium
•Transportation cost: low
• Intellectual property risk: very high
•Main products: men’s shoes, women’s shoes, children’s shoes, etc.
Dongguan is the base of Guangdong shoe industry. Data show that Dongguan is currently the world’s largest footwear production base, with more than 1,500 footwear companies, more than 2,000 supporting companies, and more than 1,500 related traders and buyers. About 65% of high-end shoes or famous shoes in the world come from Dongguan. Light sports shoes account for a quarter of the world’s sports shoes. Dongguan produced 100 million pairs of 400 million pairs of sports shoes. According to incomplete statistics, Dongguan currently has 2 million manufacturing workers, of which nearly 100,000 shoe-making technicians are from Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Brazil and other regions and countries.
3.Tongxiang
• Location: Tongxiang City, Zhejiang Province
131 kilometers from Shanghai
•Quality level: high quality, medium quality
•Labor cost: low
•Land cost: high
• Material cost: medium
•Transportation cost: low
• Intellectual Property Risk: Moderate
•Main products: women’s shoes, leather shoes
Tongxiang shoe industry originated in the 1980s. After more than 30 years of development, the total output value of the entire industrial chain is nearly 10 billion yuan. Haining, Wenzhou, Guangzhou, and Chengdu are the “four major leather shoe production bases” (leather women’s shoe production bases). In 2016, there were more than 1,600 leather shoes and supporting enterprises in the city, mainly distributed in Shimen, Zhouquan, Chongfu, Fengming and other streets, with an annual output of more than 90 million pairs of leather women’s shoes. Tongxiang shoemaking is mainly based on OEM/ODM business, based on the domestic wholesale market, quickly delivering to all parts of the country, and the industrial chain is complete.
4. Chengdu
• Location: Chengdu City, Sichuan Province
•Quality level: high quality, medium quality
•Labor cost: low
•Land cost: medium
• Material cost: very high
• Transportation cost: very high
• Intellectual Property Risk: Moderate
•Main products: women’s shoes, sports shoes
Sichuan is located in western China, far from the industrialized east coast of China, and is the largest shoe manufacturing center in this relatively underdeveloped region. Chengdu is an enterprise specializing in the production of women’s shoes. The industrial cluster has brought in more than 10 billion yuan in sales revenue. The shoes produced here have even entered the market in more than 117 countries. There are more than 1,700 shoe-making companies and more than 3,000 shoe-making companies in Chengdu. Among them, Wuhou District has concentrated more than 80% of the city’s shoemaking enterprises and more than 90% of supporting enterprises. There are 4 raw and auxiliary material markets, 10 shoe technology training schools (points), and more than 160 logistics and transportation companies.
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