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Chinese guitar capital's stairway to export heaven

Local authorities say tax breaks and free rent helped attract 87 home-grown brands as exports reached 248 million yuan in 2025.

Summary by France24
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 ranging from bicycles to socks. But the speed and scale of Zheng'an's rise make it an example of the impact of China's industrial strategy when a combination of local and central governmen…

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It produces 2.5 million instruments per year... Zheng的an, a small mountainous city, has become in ten years the "capital of the guitar" and one of the symbols of the efficiency of the Chinese industrial strategy. A well orchestrated success. Discovered. Giant guitar sculpture, guitar frescoes on the walls and even trash cans in shapes of ...

Perched in the mountains of southern China, Zheng'an now manufactures one guitar out of seven sold on the planet. A feat made possible in the past.The... Read more The small Chinese city that became the world kingdom of guitar appeared first on Le Singulier.

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France24 broke the news in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France on Monday, August 31, 2026.
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