A Nan’an city official put the cluster’s market position in a single sentence on national radio: “Of every three faucets made in China, at least one comes from Nan’an” (央广网, 2025). For a county-level city under Quanzhou in Fujian, that is not bravado—it is the summary of a fifty-year supply chain that now anchors a ¥180 billion industry corridor.
From Repairing Taps to Building a Trillion-Yuan Belt
Nan’an’s plumbing industry began in the 1970s with Lancang and Yingdu town craftsmen who repaired city water taps and started recasting them by hand. Five decades later, per CNR and Fujian Daily reporting:
- The plumbing, sanitary ware, and valve corridor stretches 26.8 kilometers and covers 50 square kilometers, structured as “1+13” industrial parks around chain-leader JOMOO (九牧).
- The corridor aggregates 2,500+ upstream and downstream enterprises (571 above designated size) and generated ¥180+ billion in output value in 2024; local officials describe it as a “thousand-billion-ecosystem corridor.”
- JOMOO’s supply-chain quality program—China’s first JSQS standard—lifted 100+ suppliers up a full quality grade, an ecosystem effect that ripples through every factory in the belt.
- The China Plumbing City (中国水暖城) market in Lancang, approved by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, is the country’s largest plumbing and kitchen-bath trading floor, with thousands of product varieties on permanent display.
The Stone Empire Next Door
Buyers rarely pair these categories, but Nan’an’s second belt matters if you build or finish: Shuitou town is China’s stone processing capital, with 1,000+ stone enterprises and a stone-smart manufacturing corridor that exceeded ¥100 billion in output value in 2024 (福建日报). Line-saw technology—now standard in Shuitou—raises slab yield 15–20% while cutting dust and energy. For hospitality and real-estate buyers, faucets and stone surfaces are genuinely a one-stop sourcing trip.
What Global Buyers Source Here
- Faucets and shower systems: From brass casting through PVD finishing—the corridor’s core competency.
- Smart toilets and bathroom electronics: JOMOO’s dominance pulled an entire electronics supply chain into the belt; second-tier brands now offer smart-bidet OEM at sharply competitive prices.
- Valves and plumbing hardware: The Yingdu side of the cluster, strong in industrial valves.
- Stone slabs and cut-to-size: Shuitou, for project buyers.
Sourcing Playbook
- Check the brass, not just the finish. Faucet quality lives in the alloy (59–62% copper is the premium benchmark) and casting integrity. Ask for material composition reports.
- Water-efficiency certification matters: WaterSense (US) or WELS (Australia) ratings open regulated markets—verify test reports from the factory’s actual production lines.
- Use JOMOO’s ecosystem effect. Suppliers trained under the JSQS program often deliver brand-adjacent quality without brand pricing—worth shortlisting.
- Stone buyers: Specify thickness tolerance and book independent QC for slab counts—discrepancies between quoted and delivered area are the classic dispute.
When to Visit
The China Plumbing City market in Lancang works year-round; the cluster’s expo periods in spring and autumn concentrate new product launches. One day in Lancang/Yingdu plus one in Shuitou covers both belts.
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