China’s guitar capital builds a stairway to export success
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- Zheng’an in Guizhou province showcases its guitar industry through a giant sculpture, murals and guitar-shaped rubbish bins.
- The town produces one in every seven guitars sold worldwide.
Zheng’an makes its main industry impossible to miss. A giant guitar sculpture dominates the town’s central square, guitar murals cover walls and pavements, and even the rubbish bins are shaped like guitars.
The town, in the southwestern Chinese province of Guizhou, has built its identity around guitar manufacturing. It produces one in every seven instruments sold worldwide.
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