Daily Goods Sourcing Clusters in China

Daily Goods is the long tail of Chinese manufacturing: lighters, glassware, hardware, wire mesh, plastics, fasteners, buttons and eyewear, made in towns that each dominate one small product worldwide. Shaodong makes seven of every ten lighters on earth; Anping makes over 80% of woven wire mesh; Qiaotou makes up to 100 billion buttons a year. These clusters are ideal for volume buyers and private-label importers, because the whole supply chain, raw material, moulds, packaging, sits in one town. Each page below names the market to visit, the products to source, and the scale that makes the town the price-setter for its product.