A foreign visitor tries on false eyelashes in Pingdu, a county-level city in east China's Shandong Province known as "China's capital of false eyelashes". (Photo courtesy of the publicity department of the Communist Party of China Pingdu municipal committee) At least 7 out of every 10 pairs of false eyelashes consumed worldwide come from Pingdu, a county-level city in east China's Shandong Province. Known as "China's capital of false eyelashes", the city boasts a false eyelash industry with an annual output value of approximately 10 billion yuan ($1.
4 billion). It exports around 120 million pairs of false eyelashes to countries such as Japan, South Korea, the United States, and European countries each year. The false eyelash industry in Pingdu can be traced back to the 1970s, when foreign companies investing in factories in the city brought the technologies for false eyelash production.
In 1976, the first false eyelash processing factory, run by a local village collective, was established in Pingdu's Dazeshan township, marking the beginning of the city's false eyelash industry. It gradually spread to more areas and grew into a full-fledged industrial chain encompassing semi-finished product processing, finished product production, and the manufacturing of relevant processing tools. Photo shows various types of false eyelashes produced in Pingdu, a county-level city in east China's Shandong Province known as "China's capital of false eyelashes".
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