The brush capital: How a simple tool swept the global market

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The global competitiveness of "Made in China" is deeply rooted in highly specialized, localized industrial clusters. Yuantan Town in Anhui Province is a leading example.

Once an ordinary township hidden in the Dabie Mountains, Yuantan has achieved an astonishing leap over the decades, transforming into one of China's largest brush-manufacturing hubs. Its evolution is striking: from family workshops to an intricately linked, full supply chain, and from cheap cleaning brushes to high-precision industrial brushes for cutting-edge sectors. In the process, Yuantan has transformed a humble brush into a key player in the global manufacturing landscape.

In this episode of Small Town Liking the World, we visit Yuantan, the "Brush Capital" of China, to decode the power of a Chinese a township that drive a billion-dollar industry.