YANGZHOU, June 22 -- Hangji Township, covering about 40 square kilometers, is located in the eastern suburbs of Yangzhou City in east China's Jiangsu Province. As an important production base for toothbrushes, the small town boasts over 2,000 toothbrush manufacturing and supporting enterprises and produces around 7.5 billion toothbrushes each year. They are exported to more than 80 countries and regions, meaning that one in three toothbrushes produced in the world comes from Hangji.

In recent years, local government of Hangji has been encouraging enterprises to drive intelligent and digital transformation through technological innovation, relying on leading enterprises, e-commerce industrial parks, the toothbrush museum, and other resources to advance brand building and boost the development of the toothbrush industry.