FUZHOU, July 11 -- In Korean shoe designer Kim Gyudeog's fashion workshop in Jinjiang, China's Fujian Province, a big TV screen continuously displays his latest design of environmentally friendly shoes.
"The city is the largest shoe manufacturing base in the world, where most brands have their production lines. You can find anything from upstream to downstream resources in the shoe and textile industry in Jinjiang," said Kim.
Kim opened his design workshop in Jinjiang in early 2017, cooperating with Hotpotato, an outdoor shoe company in Guangzhou, and the U.S.-based Sketchers to develop new shoes.
His new designs provide a dual function for both outdoor and indoor use and feature removable insoles.
There are hundreds of foreign designers like Kim working in the shoe industry in Jinjiang. Some work directly for Chinese leading shoe brands like ANTA, Lilanz, and 361 Degrees, all based in the city.
Home to 3,000 factories, the city churns out 40 percent of China's sports shoes and 20 percent of the world's total. The county-level city's GDP reached 198.2 billion yuan (30 billion U.S. dollars) in 2017, 1,366 times the GDP in 1978.
Litin Jain from India said he and many other foreign purchasers source shoe-making materials in Jinjiang.
"I came here to have a look at the range of new materials to make new shoe designs in India," he said. He believes the city has obtained an edge in quickly developing technology for the industry.
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