YIVAHUBGuangdong Industrial Belts
Which belt makes what — and how we work inside it
Guangdong's advantage is not cheap labour, it is density. A province-sized belt contains the factory, the component supply, the plating shop, the packaging printer and the port, all within two hours of each other. That is what makes small runs, fast sampling and consistent quality possible — and it is why a sourcing agent who lives inside these belts can do things a buyer working from a screen cannot.
We cover 18 belts across the province. Twelve have their own detailed pages below; the rest we source regularly for specific categories. If your product is made anywhere in Guangdong, the odds are we can name the town it comes from.
Want the whole province on one screen? The interactive belt map plots all 168 town-level clusters, 149 district and county units, the ports and airports, and the industry chains that run between them. The same data is published as an open dataset — every cluster with its product category, scale and public source, free to download as CSV or JSON: Guangdong Industrial Belt Atlas.
The full map
| Belt | What it supplies |
|---|---|
| Guangzhou | Apparel, leather & bags, cosmetics, auto parts, wholesale markets |
| Shenzhen | Consumer electronics, smart devices, LED & displays, components |
| Dongguan | Electronics, molds & tooling, furniture, apparel, packaging |
| Zhongshan | Lighting & LED, locks & hardware, small appliances |
| Foshan | Furniture, ceramics & tiles, sanitary ware, aluminum, machinery |
| Jiangmen | Faucets & sanitary ware, stainless, microphones, furniture |
| Zhaoqing | Building materials, aluminum profiles, hardware & castings |
| Huizhou | Furniture, women's footwear, home appliances, battery & storage |
| Chaozhou | Ceramics, sanitary ware, stainless kitchenware, food packaging |
| Shantou | Toys & gifts, stationery, packaging & printing, knitwear |
| Jieyang | Hardware, stainless kitchenware, plastics, underwear & textiles |
| Yangjiang | Knives & scissors, kitchen tools, multi-tools, garden tools |
| Zhuhai | Printer consumables, smart hardware, marine equipment, PCBA |
| Yunfu | Stone, granite and marble products, decorative materials |
| Qingyuan | Cement, ceramics, building materials, recycled materials |
| Shaoguan | Steel, castings, hardware, machinery parts |
| Zhanjiang | Small kitchen appliances, seafood processing equipment, plastics |
| Meizhou | Ceramics, electronics, bamboo & wood products |
Cities without their own page are still on our route — ask and we will tell you what the belt does, what it is good at and where its limits are.
How belt knowledge changes your order
- Price band. The same product in three belts sits in three price bands. Knowing which one matches your channel is the difference between a margin and a loss.
- Quality tier. Some belts are strong on volume and weak on premium finish; others the reverse. We match the belt to the specification, not to the cheapest quote.
- MOQ reality. A category that runs at 500 units in one belt may run at 50 in another, because the setup cost sits in different places.
- Speed. Component density decides sampling speed. In Zhongshan and Dongguan a sample is often a week; in building materials it is a month.
- Logistics. Freight is planned from the belt outwards — ports, container loading, and whether goods can be consolidated with anything else on the way.
See What We Source for the category list, or Supplier Verification for how we qualify a factory before anything is ordered.
Tell us the product — we will tell you the belt.
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