Renowned as a wooden boat manufacturing center, Zhuhong town in Xinghua city, located in East China's Jiangsu province, is dedicated to revitalizing its traditional wooden boat-building industry.
Zhuhong Wooden Boat Cultural Industry Park there is home to 21 wooden boat manufacturers, generating annual invoiced sales of 250 million yuan ($34.41 million) and an output value of about 700 million yuan.
A premium wooden boat coming from Zhuhong town. [Photo/WeChat account: xinghuafabu]
A prime example of the town's upgrade, Taizhou Zhenhua Shipbuilding has been established for over 10 years and excels in producing wooden boats and modern speedboats.
"We started building small boats step by step and now we can produce up to 8.8-meter-long boats, " said sales manager Lu Qingwei.
With its continual expansion of the business, it has launched more and more new types of boats, such as sightseeing boats.
Elsewhere, Jiangsu Suhang Ship Industry Group began to transform into making aluminum alloy new energy ships in 2019. It has successively obtained CCSI quality system certification, CCS welder capability certification and welding process evaluation.
To boost its eco-friendly product range, the group started producing new energy ships, mainly powered by lithium iron phosphate, liquefied petroleum gas and liquefied natural gas.
Finished products wait outside in line, ready to ship out from the workshop of Jiangsu Suhang Ship Industry Group. [Photo/WeChat account: xinghuafabu]