How a young man from Yuantan Town sells Chinese brushes globally

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In Yuantan, Anhui, a group of young entrepreneurs is returning home to redefine this historic brush-making town through cross-border e-commerce. They have broken product specifications down to the millimeter, expanded their services to include content creation for overseas clients, and expanded their logistics operations with warehouses in Dubai and Los Angeles.

In 2025, the town's cross-border e-commerce exports reached 110 million USD. Yet, behind these soaring numbers, a worker in her 70s still sits on the factory floor, making brushes by hand to put her granddaughter through school. In this episode of Small Town Linking the World, we follow these young innovators as a simple brush makes its way around the world.