I see people from abroad sharing, and many of the child cars they buy that are particularly creative, designable or of good quality come from china. And here i see a chinese place name. Isn't this one of china's baby cars cluster? This time i'm going to give you an in-depth account of the industry, especially how it moved from bicycle parts to child cars。
In the 1970s and 1980s, a bicycle was the bulk of the household; more electric cars, more cars and more traditional bicycles were lost. There is a county in hebei, where hundreds of thousands of people eat by car and should leave with the old bicycle, but which today produces 145 million bicycles, child cars and toys a year。
So where are those welders and loaders? When a product is squeezed into a corner by the times, why do you feed a county with the same hands? Pingcheng changed his product and continued to use his old skills in making cars。
The business was first brought together in the town of hagugu temple in xin taiping county。
At the end of the 1970s, bicycles were still pretty good. The business started with spare parts: some of the people with the brains went out to buy spare parts, brought them back to the village for assembly and then sold them. First, the wheel, the ankle, the basket, and then it was discovered that instead of running out, it was better to knock, weld and make it。
A bicycle looked simple and opened was a long business: the frame had to be bent and welded, the wheel had to be rounded, irradiated, the drums had to be drums, and there were hoods, saddles, ankles, chains, bearings, brakes and packaging. A workshop can only do a few things, with a different distribution, so that it can be fully equipped。
It's like this. By the early 1980s, the town had more than a thousand bicycle parts stalls, with more than 6,000 people coming in one day and a turnover of more than 200,000 yuan. At that time, it was like an open-air spare parts warehouse. Whoever lacks a car, a bell, comes around here, mostly fit。
In the 1990s, the bicycle industry in the countryside grew. By 1997, china's bicycle parts city had been built and there was a fixed market for trades that had been scattered along the street. The lives of many families are also supported by a steel pipe and a car basket。
But markets do not promise to buy forever because a place has learned what to do。
As the mobility tools change, electric cars enter more and more households, the status of traditional bicycles as daily walkers changes. The bicycles are still cycling, but ordinary bicycles are the market for the main means of transport for families and cannot grow up indefinitely along the same road. Those who eat from it must find another buyer。
The luckiest place in the countryside is when it lost the golden years of a product, but did not lose its capacity to build it。
The locals quickly turned their eyes to the chariot. On the face of it, this is the car of a grown-up in exchange for a child; many old skills are still needed in the workshop. The steel pipe shall be cut, bent, welded and the frame shall be sprayed. Wheels, bearings, handles, saddles shall require a group of auxiliary plants and the finished products shall be assembled, packed, shipped. The suppliers and buyers originally known in the market would not have gone to zero overnight。
From the beginning, child cars, workers, molds, accessories and trading networks have to be searched again. These conditions already exist in the communes, where the original equipment and people can be organized。
After 2000, child cars and toy cars became the dominant product of the riveric temple. Around 2006, there was a rapid increase in child bicycle businesses in communes. The frame was smaller from the adult size, from the black beam to the bright red yellow blue, and the product from the vehicle to the child's first car. It looks like it's only one turn, but behind it is a large group of workers and small factories。
The reduction of adult cars, however, is in no way equivalent to a qualified child car。
An adult cycling encounters a little shaking and can use his body to correct it; the child's judgment is slow and small, with a tipping point, a loose card button, and the failure of a brake may become a direct danger. The car will also fold over and over again, will the material be painted, will the child be able to reach the brakes, will the seatbelt be secure and will require only more detail。
The original strength of the village was that "any parts can be found" and the shortboard was hidden here. Small workshops are numerous, their products are cheap, they are easily imitated, and they are prone to competition over who saves more material and who presses more prices. Welding of a frame can only prove that it can be done here; in order to reassure parents to put the child in it, it has to prove that it can afford to fall, crash and repeat it。
In 2011, the good child northern industrial park was established in the countryside; two years later, it was upgraded to the good child northern headquarters. A mature brand brings with it not only orders and factories, but also a more stringent approach to product control。
There's a very intuitive detail in the public report. A child cart is subject to up to 120 tests before the market. At the time of the dynamic durability test, 15 kg of weight was pressed in the car and the block was hit continuously at a speed of 5 km per hour; the industry's highest standard was 72,000 completed and the standard for a good child could be over 100,000。
For an experienced welder, this means that the product is good and can no longer be done with one hand or another. A single welding point remains unbroken today and is to be hit tens of thousands of times; it does not count as much as a swipe of a shipment, which can be traced back from the raw materials, from the process to the factory. It is not easy for small plants to adapt to these standards。
The ping commune then completed the previously invisible links of research, testing, certification and training. Centres for monitoring the quality of bicycle parts have been set up in the counties to provide services to small businesses that lack the conditions for testing. At the time of the economics daily visit in 2024, there were 505 valid county-wide certificates for compulsory products of child cars。
Another enterprise increased the number of bumper block impact tests from the national standard of 3. 60,000 to 5:40,000. The difference of 18,000 times is that consumers can't see it in the mall, but it's decided whether it's possible to move from cheap to a commodity that dares write its own brand。
The product is ready and we need to find a buyer。
Ping township used to be visited by customers such as the hagu temple market, which later moved to a larger location. Since 2014, 17 bicycles toy fairs have been held locally, bringing together clients from 52 countries and territories, with a cumulative turnover of $54 billion. Small factories do not have to go all over the world, and buyers from around the world are invited to the county to see samples and negotiate prices。
The electrician again reduced the distance. By 2024, there had been four treasure-hunting towns, thirty-one treasure-hunting villages and over 10,000 internet stores. In the past, one village was responsible for welding only, another for plastics, and now there are more pictures, live broadcasts, passenger uniforms, storage and couriers. It turns out that a small factory that waits for wholesalers to pick up goods can also see on the internet what parents feel and what they like。
This feedback, in turn, changes the factory. The minivans are no longer just two mini-wheels plus a little rack, and there are folding carts, balancing cars, child safety seats, electric toy cars. Every year, ping township needs at least 30 million smart minibuses or toy car controllers, previously procured from the field. Later, an enterprise built automated production lines locally, increasing efficiency from 100 units per day to 150 units per hour. The garage industry began to grow its own electronic brain。
By this point, the return of the country has long gone beyond simply making the same thing small. It travels around children and plays, expanding the old chain of industry. Pipes and welders are the starting point, and plastics, cloths, controllers, detection, design and network sales are all connected。
Public reports in 2024 show that there are more than 4,800 bicycles, child wagons and toy production enterprises in pingzhou, which produce 1. 45 billion bicycles, child cars and toys annually, accounting for 50 per cent of the domestic market, 40 per cent of the international market and 60 countries and territories。
This district has a population of 320,000 people, of whom 120,000 are engaged in related industries. On average, less than three people, one person's work is related to these cars. In 2023, the income generated by the cycling bike industry was 22,953 million yuan, an increase of more than 10 per cent over the same period, and entered the national list of sme niche industries。
It also did not throw out the adult bike. The old market for ordinary walkers has changed, and physical fitness and recreation have brought new demands, such as road vehicles, mountain cars and land cruisers. What pingcheng is doing today is moving the adult car from mere surrogacy to sport and leisure, while making deep use of child cars, smart toys and child safety supplies。
A lot of small industrial cities have the same problem. The mine will be dug out, the style will be overrated, and the customers who have been lined up to buy change. If only one finished product is replicated locally, the factory will stop together as soon as the finished product becomes obsolete, and if material, process, support and a group of problem solvers are left behind, it will have the opportunity to produce the next product in line with the neighbouring demand。
The countryside has begun to make smarter, safer and more expensive cars. In 2023, the production of medium- and high-end child cars at a cost of more than $500 per unit increased by 20 per cent over the same period。
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