◎Daying Fur & Leather

Hengshui Daying fur and leather industry began in the Shang Dynasty.Daying Town is located in the south of Hengshui City,Hebei Province,with convenient transportation and obvious geographical advantages.It is the birthplace of the fur and leather industry.As early as in the Late Shang Dynasty,Bi Gan,the prime minister,invented the fur-making technology here,which has a history of more than 3,000 years.Now Daying has developed into a world-famous capital of fur and leather industry.(https://www.daowen.com)

The fur and leather industry is the pillar industry of Daying Town.There are nearly 20,000 fur and leather processing enterprises at Daying Town,including more than 70 enterprises above a certain scale,more than 1,000 general taxpayer enterprises,and more than 80,000 practitioners.Their products have been sold well in 48 countries and regions in the world.Daying Town has been successively rated as Famous City of Fur Clothing in China,Famous Town for Market in China,National Transformation and Upgrading Professional Demonstration Base for Foreign Trade,Incubation Demonstration Base for Fur-related E-commerce in China,Demonstration Base for Fur E-commerce Supply in China,Origin of Fur and Leather Industry in China,Demonstration Zone of Quality and Safety of Fur Products,Chinese Most Influential Trading Market of Fur and Leather,Chinese Training Base for Fur Crafts,and included into the second batch of National Small Towns with Characteristics.In addition,Fur Economic Development Zone of Daying Town was included into the Provincial Economic Development Zone,the traditional manufacturing techniques of Daying fur and leather was included in the List of Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritages,and Daying fur was included in the List of National Protected Product with A Geographic Indication.