Guangzhou boasts a well-established supply chain system that has fostered multiple industry clusters, including textiles and garments, leather goods, cosmetics, and daily chemical products, said Liu Hang, business director of Temu.

特木集团业务总监刘航表示，广州拥有完善的供应链体系，培育了包括纺织服装、皮革制品、化妆品和日化产品在内的多个产业集群。

Kering manages a series of renowned fashion, leather goods and jewelry brands.

开云管理着一系列著名的时尚、皮具和珠宝品牌。

It is about establishing a meaningful connection with Chinese consumers," said Duplaix, adding that Kering-which manages a series of renowned fashion, leather goods and jewelry brands-has brought a wide range of product selections to the Six CIIE and the grand event has provided an excellent opportunity for positive dialogues between the French company and the Chinese market.

这是为了与中国消费者建立有意义的联系。

Pulcra's chemical business unit focuses on the development and manufacture of innovative specialty chemicals for the fiber, textile and leather industries.

Pulcra的化学业务部门专注于纤维、纺织和皮革行业创新特种化学品的开发和制造。

Coach New York, a US-based fashion brand that specializes in leather handbags, luggage and accessories, will open 12 more outlets across China this year, its top executive said, as the country boosts policy support to increase consumer spending and unleash purchasing power.

总部位于美国的时尚品牌Coach New York的首席执行官表示，今年将在中国各地再开设12家分店，因为中国将加大政策支持力度，增加消费者支出，释放购买力。

Using the famous restaurant chain's traditional gold and Chinese palace red color motif, as well as ornate metal, wood, leather, cloth and black brick decor, the dining establishment demonstrates the ingenuity of the time-honored brand.

餐厅采用著名连锁餐厅的传统金色和中国宫廷红色主题，以及华丽的金属、木材、皮革、布料和黑砖装饰，展示了老字号的独创性。

I once met a mother at our booth who made a leather card for her daughter who is going to university.

我曾经在我们的摊位上遇到一位母亲，她为即将上大学的女儿做了一张皮卡片。

Viva has already acquired century-old Italian leather footwear brand Amedeo Testoni earlier this year.

今年早些时候，Viva已经收购了拥有百年历史的意大利皮鞋品牌Amedeo Testoni。

The design inspiration for the two new devices comes from suitcases with ridged patterns complete with soft-touch leather, Realme said.

For e-commerce, besides its official online store on Alibaba's Tmall, where it offers a wide range of jewelry, watches and leather goods, Cartier has launched a mini program on WeChat.

Gregory Boutte, chief client and digital officer of France's Kering Group－which manages a series of renowned fashion, leather goods, jewelry and watch brands－said China is a critical market for the group in terms of retail growth potential and digital inspiration.

The online store offers a wide range of jewelry, watches and leather goods and it has seen positive sales performance so far this year.

Not far away in Hunan Yihao Leather Handbag Co Ltd, workers all wear masks to complete production orders since the resumption of work.

"Logistics and payment are arguably the biggest challenges compared with a domestic online business," said Yang Wanli, who oversees cross-border business at Chasha Pinguan Leather Trading Co Ltd. "Our online sales experience at home surely helps us crack the code but more concerted efforts are needed between vendors and the platform.

In addition, they are made with real leather and real metal, giving them an impressive appearance.

They want real leather and real metal－something which they can touch and feel that lasts longer," Sennheiser said.

For instance, data and analytics helped tweak designs for Belle, whose 12,000 pairs of macaron-colored lace-up leather shoes, a co-creation with Alibaba, were snapped up in days during a midyear sales event.

Other opportunities exist in leather processing, manufacture of construction materials and equipment, agro-processing and heavy industries.

Once complete, the facility will produce about 150,000 metric tons a year of custom alkoxylate, a chemical used by multiple sectors to make products such as detergents, textiles, leather, lubrication materials and ink.

Bertelli and his wife, the designer Miuccia Prada, turned the company from its humble beginnings as a Milan leather goods company into a global power house and Italy's biggest luxury group by turnover.

On the livestock sector, Mwambe says there are opportunities in establishing factories for processing meat, dairy and leather products such as shoes and bags.

Currently, Lanvin operates in more than 50 countries with women’s wear, menswear, children’s wear and accessories, including footwear and leather goods, as its core business.

[Photo/for China Daily]In the middle of London's Camden Market, a trader from China hands red-bean cakes to a group of tourists from Sweden, as tattooed locals dressed in black leather weave their way between food stalls cooking up dishes, including barbecued meat and fish and chips.

The store will present the widest range of the house's collections in China, including women's ready-to-wear, shoes, handbags, leather accessories, men's collections and luggage bags.

The number of enterprises settled in the zone has grown from 54 in 2013 to 175 today, covering a wide range of sectors including hardware and machinery, construction materials, automotive parts and tires, photovoltaic materials, medical supplies, luggage and leather goods, textiles, and clothing.

The companies are engaged in the fields of spices, beauty, textiles and leather goods.

Chinese companies will be able to export goods including mechanical and electrical products as well as clothing and footwear to Uganda more conveniently and efficiently, while Chinese consumers will enjoy more high-quality sesame, cotton, leather, coffee and other goods from Uganda.

The latest report from the Statistics and Census Service showed that among the major retail trade activities, sales values of Chinese food products surged by 230.4 percent year-on-year, while sales values of watches, clocks and jewelery, leather goods and cosmetics and sanitary articles grew by 52.7 percent, 41.9 percent and 37.1 percent respectively.

Sales values of Chinese food products, leather goods, watches, clocks and jewelery and department stores soared by 257.2 percent, 106.5 percent, 106.0 percent and 91.1 percent, respectively.

Italy and France would gain from an increase in demand for food products, textiles, and leather products, as well as consumer chemicals.

Automobiles, fashion, beauty, leather goods and other industries would be promoted to the international market, and development of transportation, exhibitions, cultural tourism and consumption would be further integrated.

The tech city is dedicated to fostering the digital economy and propelling the digital transformation of traditional industries, such as leather goods, cosmetics, furniture and equipment production.

Wu Dazhi, president of the Guangzhou Leather and Footwear Association, said some Chinese enterprises in the labor-intensive industry have been stepping up research and development and establishing overseas factories amid protectionist trade measures by the US and some European countries as well as increased labor costs in China.

Wu Dazhi, president of the Guangzhou Leather & Footwear Association, said some Chinese enterprises in the labor-intensive industry have been stepping up research and development and establishing overseas factories, amid protectionist trade measures by the US and some European countries and increasing labor costs in China.

"That is especially important as Chinese enterprises face increasing competition from some neighboring countries in low-end manufacturing sectors, while the tide of protectionism around the world also grows," Wu said, who is also president of the Guangzhou Leather& Footwear Association.

Innovative exporters best COVID woes and protectionismOver the last few years, Wu Dazhi, president of the Guangzhou Leather& Footwear Association, has seen China's foreign trade companies undergo a remarkable makeover, which, he said, encapsulates the amazing resilience of the Chinese business spirit in the face of a plethora of seemingly insurmountable odds.

Wu, who is also president of the Guangzhou Leather & Footwear Association, said the agreement will further reduce trade barriers for Chinese products to export and gain more recognition for Chinese brands in global markets, as Chinese products have good quality and affordable prices.

Guangzhou's leather and textile industries will particularly benefit from the RCEP agreement－the world's largest free trade agreement covering 15 economies.

Authorities said Guangzhou's exports of leather, textiles and footwear products to Japan may enjoy tariff concessions of about 47 million yuan ($7.41 million) in 2022.

Japan is one of the major export markets for the city's leather products.

Gao Zhiyong, a senior executive at Guangzhou Zhijia Leather Co Ltd, said workers at his company have been working hard since the beginning of the year.

Zhang Yi, manager of Guangzhou Duoweili Leather Co Ltd, said tariff cuts have greatly enhanced the market competitiveness of his company.

Located in Guangzhou's Huadu district－known as the "leather capital of China"－Zhang's company is among the major luggage and bag manufacturers in the region.

Shiling township in Huadu has now registered more than 8,800 luggage, bag and leather goods manufacturers and more than 16,800 supporting service merchants, producing more than 700 million pieces of luggage and bags for customers from around the world each year.

The customs figures also showed that in the first seven months, Shanghai's import of leather and fur products from the EU totaled 11.2 billion yuan, surging by 94.8 percent year-on-year.

Under the current inflationary pressure, increasing tariff exclusions for automobiles and parts－as well as widely increasing tariff exclusions for leather products, clothing, shoes and other daily necessities－will also have a positive effect on alleviating monetary policy pressure.

The group attributed the growth to strong performance in its fashion and leather goods divisions, and hard luxury sector－which includes goods such as jewelry and watches.

For example, the leather goods of the Argentina pavilion turned to be very popular, and exhibitors discussed putting the last processing procedure into China, after they discovered they could face capacityxa0restraintsxa0in transportation and production during the peak sales season.

Timber, dairy and leather products, meat, pulp and raw materials for textiles are China's main imports from New Zealand, while clothing, machinery, telecom equipment and parts, computers, furniture, toys and sporting goods make up most exports to New Zealand.

The four-day event, also known as the Hainan Expo, will cover 80,000 square meters, including 60,000 sq m for international exhibits, involving more than 1,300 world-renowned brands of jewelry and diamonds, leather goods, fragrance products, high-end food, healthcare products.

Park, the associate director of the China Africa Research Initiative at Johns Hopkins University, said their recent research examined Chinese investments in manufacturing, agro-processing, telecommunication and infrastructure projects in seven African countries, and found clear evidence of job creation, linkages to local suppliers and buyers, local subcontracting and even local copycat activities across sectors ranging from cotton and leather processing to railroad construction and operations and plastic waste recycling.

The leather sector created 11,830 jobs for locals and 440 positions for expatriates.

Chinese investors are active in several sectors, including power, textile and garment, leather, trading and construction, the BIDA said.

Timber, dairy and leather products, meat, pulp and raw materials for textiles are China's main imports from New Zealand, while clothing, machinery, telecom equipment and parts, computers, furniture, toys and sporting goods are the pillar exports to New Zealand.

Even though China's rising labor and production material costs have pushed a number of domestic and global companies to move their garment and leather product factories from the Chinese mainland to India, Vietnam, Cambodia and Indonesia in recent years, these countries' insufficient power supply, transportation infrastructure, and multi-language system have restricted foreign companies' growth.

While international cosmetics brands explored China's perfume market at an early stage, leading international companies — such as Italian outerwear brand Moncler and Spanish luxury leather brand Loewe — also wafted into China's perfume market in recent years.

"According to He, more efforts will be made to drive the growth of six major light industries, including household products, plastic products, papermaking, leather, batteries and food.

I buy two or three leather coats a year, with each running about 3,000 yuan ($430), several pairs of trousers that each cost around 1,000 yuan, several hundred for gloves and over 1,000 yuan for a helmet.

Designed by the China Textile Planning Institute of Construction, the center, inside a special economic cooperation zone between the two cities, will be built into an industrial cluster dominated by textiles and clothing, with fashion industries such as cosmetics, leather goods and bags as goods produced.

At the Shanghai Fashion Week, sustainable fashion brand Donsee10, which has in the past released clothing lines making creative use of little-known materials like cactus leather, continued its exploration of environmentally friendly clothing manufacturing, launching a knitted vest made of 40 percent paper fiber.

Noting the challenges ahead, Huang Huigu, chairman of Guangzhou Kingsons Leather Products Co Ltd, said it is necessary to further expand the export market in the coming months.

China's leather industry registered stable revenue expansion in the first half of the year, data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology showed.

During the period, the combined operating revenue of major manufacturers of leather, fur, feather and related products, as well as footwear, reached 551.12 billion yuan ($82 billion), up 6.5 percent year-on-year, according to the ministry.

Huang Huigu, chairman of Guangzhou Kingsons Leather Products Co Ltd, said the company has been expanding the space of the cross-border e-commerce market to create more added value for its global customers, which rivals in Southeast Asian nations such as Vietnam and Indonesia are unable to offer.

Song Wenming, chairman of Guangzhou Aopiya Leather Industrial LLC, another Guangdong province-based bag and suitcase exporter, said the growth of the company's export value exceeded 50 percent in the first half after the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement came into force in January.

Investment in major sectors of the industry logged double-digit growth, with that in six sectors, including agricultural and sideline products processing, food manufacturing and leather, rising more than 20 percent, said the council.

With a monthly salary of 3,500 yuan, Qu, who had returned from working at a leather bag factory in Dongguan, Guangdong province, said she likes being close to her hometown and family.

She washes her hands and starts to watch TV while sewing the outside leather covers for a baseball.

"To make one baseball, it takes seven steps, including making the cork center, wrapping it with leather and sewing the stitches by hand," said Shi.

Kate Zhang sold a light purple leather Louis Vuitton speedy bag for 6,999 yuan at Panghu and is able to get a net of 5,999 yuan after the service fees.

Leather goods were labeled as the fastest-growing category with about a 60 percent growth rate, followed by fashion and lifestyle at around 40 percent.

It will showcase products such as apparel, luggage, leather goods, accessories and intelligent equipment.

Wuren Yijirheyen, a 52-year-old shepherd in Hulunbuir, North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, never dreamed her small family workshop in fur and leather handicrafts would grow to a giant business with over 1 million yuan ($143,900) in annual sales and lift hundreds of impoverished women out of poverty.

According to Chinese e-commerce giant JD, since the beginning of January, around 20 luxury brands have opened stores on its online marketplace, such as the world's oldest fine leather goods house Delvaux, jewelry brand Goossens and British luxury leather brand Smythson.

Among the items listed were more than 1,000 textile and apparel products, such as yarns, fabrics, carpets, industrial textiles and leather.

Ruian, a major manufacturing hub for leather shoes and auto parts in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, is bringing in skilled engineers from Italy to help drive its products into the world market.

The products include fruits, nuts, avocadoes, legumes, flowers, vegetables, stevia, meat, leather and leather products, among others.

"We have over 12,000 leather industries," Guo said.

"Many of the world's leather processing companies are in Shenzhen, which includes Britain's big brands.

In Relax mode, the seat can recline to 40 degrees, and a footrest — beautifully trimmed in carpet and leather and surrounded with a chrome strip — will deploy from the front passenger seat back.

The optional Bentley Diamond Illumination uses LEDs that emit light through small perforations that measure 1 mm in diameter in the leather trim on the door panels.

An absolute majority of owners complained that their vehicles smell of plastic or leather and the center's research shows 29 of them scored poorly in formaldehyde tests.

In terms of design, the Wingle 7 draws on Great Wall Motor's own WEY, with its stylish appearance, floating display, full-range audio and leather seats.

The series was considered a work of art with an exterior decorated with jade and interior with rosewood and cream-white leather.

Passenger comfort has been put at the forefront of the interior design, wrapped in light blue leather.

Complementing the smart Brabus tailor made's striking exterior is its contemporary interior, which offers a choice of 42 leather colors and 31 topstitching colors, covering the leather seats, dashboard, steering wheel and door trims, in addition to four topstitching patterns.

The sapphire blue edition nicely renders the light premium positioning of the smart brand, with U-shaped LED daytime running lamps and LED taillights giving the vehicle a spirited look and a bespoke interior characterized by black fabric covering the dashboard, black leather seats, and multimedia system with a 7-inch touch screen.

"I take a loan of $30 in the morning and with the proceeds, I purchase leather belts from a wholesale shop in town, which I sell to middle-class clients by evening so that I can repay the loan on the same day," he said.

HEFEI/- Though the number of in-store customers has been curtailed due to COVID-19, shops in the Haining Leather Center in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province, have seen orders going up by a staggering number, as they drum up their businesses online.