Brush pen business in China's Jiangxi modernizes manufacturing to meet personalized needs

A staff member of an electronic commerce demonstration base displays a newly launched brush pen product in Wengang Town of Jinxian County, east China's Jiangxi Province, Aug. 8, 2019. Noted as the "Capital of Brush Pen in China", Wengang Township has more than 1,600 years of history in making brush pens and owns a competitive industrial cluster embracing over 2,600 companies and workshops. In 2018, the output of brush pens here reached 780 million with a total value of 2.315 billion yuan (about 328 million U.S. dollars). Based on inheritance of traditional brush pen culture, the business here has modernized the manufacturing to meet personalized need in culture, tourism and electronic commerce. (Xinhua/Zhang Rufeng)