The needle-making industry in ancient China

The industry of making needles in China has a long history. According to the recordings of archaeological materials, a bone needle was excavated from the late Paleolithic Era’s ruins in Shangdingdong, Zhoukoudian, Beijing.

The Needle-making Industry of Contemporary China

In the middle 19th century, Chinese craftsmen were still using traditional method of filing by hand to make needles, while the British needle-making industry’s procedures of manufacturing needles had most achieved mechanization.

King of Making Needles in Contemporary China

Qingdao, a beautiful coastal city, is one of the cradles for national industry in the contemporary era. In the 1920s, Yin Zhizhong, a person from Shangdong’s Ye County, went to Japan to learn the technique of making needles.