About Daying, the Capital of Furs

Daying Town of Zaoqiang County, Hebei Province is sited in Southeast of Hebei Province, is one of the three biggest towns of Hengshui City. It has 88 villages, a population of 6,5000, total area of 136 square meter, farm land of 140,000 mu. The total output value of agricultural industry in 2001 is 1.32billion Chinese yuan, local government financial income is 23million Chinese yuan. Daying has long been known for its fur processing, named Capital City of Furs in China. Fur Plaza of Daying is named Top Ten Specialized Marketplace by Hebei Provincial Government while Daying fur industry is deemed Spark Key Enterprise by Hebei Provincial Government.

Leading Industry of Daying:

Fur processing is the traditional industry of China Daying. Daying Town now has 62 villages specially engaged in processing furs, 9170 enterprises and shops, 562 private processing unit with an annual output of 500,000 RMB, 63 of them with an annual output value of over 1million RMB, 12 companies with an annual output value of over 10million RMB.
Major products include raw skin, tanned fur, semi-products, fur garments, sheep sheared furs, fur handicrafts total seven series over 2000 specifications.

Some figures can give a better idea of Daying fur industry:
The annual output of fur garment:about 1.8 million pcs;
the annual output of fur plates: 1.5 million pcs;
the annual output of fur collar, trimming and other accessories: over 6 million pcs

History of Daying Fur:

It has more than 3000 years since the tale that the prime minister in Shang Dynasty, Bigan, created the process of fur and leather. According to the legend, Bigan once worked as official in Daying area and he first found the way to process furs and leathers during his stay in Daying. Then he left to become prime minister of Shang Dynasty. People here build a temple named Bigan Temple in memory of him.

In Ming Dynasty, Daying fur and leather came into Europe upper class after Zhenghe sailed across the Atlantic. At that time, Daying fur became well-known for "Being soft, suitable, fashionable".
In Qing Dynasty, the travelling merchants from more than 10 countries such as Russia, Japan, England, the Netherlands set up warehouse in Daying. To the 1860's, Daying fur and leather were sold well abroad as products exempt from examinations and taxes. Since China's Reform and Open especially the recent years, the holding of Daying Fur Trade Fair, further enhanced the fame of Daying in China as well as the world.

Daying now has become the center of fur industry in North China, with over 14,000 process enterprises and places for stall in Daying and its 5 neighboring cities or counties over 300 villages. The people engaged in fur processing and sales are about 150,000 and the sales volume reaches 1.8 billion Chinese yuan. Daying fur and leather products are exported to Russia, European countries, the USA, Japan, Southeast Asian countries and Korea.

Environment Protection:
Major pollution to the environment caused by fur processing comes from the tanning and dying of fur and leathers. To solve this problem, local government has set up a Fur Industry Park occupies an area of 1300 mu. Daying People¡¯s Government plans to construct a sewage treatment plant to solve the pollution of the fur process problem.
Also Daying will invest 38.10 million RMB to set up within the Fur Industry Park a comprehensive exhibition hall including Fur Information Building, Fur Quality Inspection Center and Multi-functional Fur Trading Hall. It will occupy an area of 100 mu, the construction area will be 43,000 square meter.
The construction of above two projects will further promote the development of fur industry in Daying.

Daying people are hospitable and warm, will provide good environment and perfect service to customers to seek mutual development and sincere cooperation.

Welcome to Daying, Capital City of Furs.