Chinese Town of Zheng’an Establishes Itself as the Global Guitar Manufacturing Hub

Chinese town emerges as world’s guitar capital

ZHENG’AN: It doesn’t take long to gue­ss the main industry of the Chinese town of Zheng’an. A giant guitar sculpture dominates the central square, guitar murals adorn walls and pavements and even the rubbish bins are shaped like guitars. This corner of the southwest province of Guizhou produces one in every seven of the instruments sold worldwide. A decade ago, it had no guitar-making industry to speak of at all. There are hundreds of specialised manufacturing towns in China, producing items ...

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