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This small town in Shanxi Province "blows" glass to the world

2024-09-18 17:39:42

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Qixian, located in Jinzhong City, Shanxi Province, is an important birthplace of Jin Shang, the famous "ten thousand Li Tea Ceremony" in Eurasia, Qi County is the pioneer. The Jin merchants relied on their ticket numbers all over the South of the Yangtze River to purchase and sell the major tea producing areas in China in their hands, and sold them to Russia, the Netherlands, and other European countries and regions through the "Ten Thousand Li Tea Ceremony".
After returning from Europe, Jin merchants did not return empty-handed, they brought back foreign glass products and production techniques. Qixian, in addition to the ticket number, there is another industry landing root - glassware.

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Qixian people, who are good at creating things out of nothing, have found new business opportunities from accidentally broken glass. From toy glass, to blow oil lampshade, horse lampshade, and then to produce a complete range of daily glassware... For hundreds of years, glassware flourished in Qixian County.

At present, there are more than 50 glass production enterprises in Qixian, more than 200 upstream and downstream enterprises, with 288 patents and 2 well-known trademarks in China. The annual production of more than 2 billion pieces of glassware, including wine, tea, coffee and other 10 series of more than 8,000 varieties, 70% of the products are exported to more than 80 countries and regions overseas. In 2022, the annual output value of Qixian glassware reached 2.3 billion yuan.

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