What is Caoxian County? 90% of Japan’s coffins are imported from here.

As a place name that has become very popular on the Internet recently, many people want to know what Caoxian County is. Today I will talk about this topic with you and introduce this place to you by the way.

"I would rather have a bed in Caoxian than a house in Shanghai and Shenzhen" and "Caoxian, the center of the universe". In recent days, Caoxian memes have become "popular". The reason is that on a short video platform, a blogger shouted the slogan "666, we Le Bao, Cao County, Heze, Shandong Province" in a Shandong dialect accent, which triggered many netizens to imitate or ridicule. The related topic on Weibo has been read more than 500 million times.

Overnight, the seemingly ordinary small county in southwestern Shandong was completely ignited by Internet memes. Since 2009, the development of Caoxian County has caught up with the rise of the e-commerce economy. Caoxian County now has the largest Taobao Village in Shandong Province. What was once a poor county is now a wealthy county with "many young people, many businesses, and high incomes." The villagers relied on their hands to find a way to start a business and become rich, and used their strength to amaze the world in their hometown.

As one of the pillar industries in Caoxian County, many people feel that the coffin industry is not very respectable. However, some people turned it into a business worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year, and asked Japanese elders to bow on TV and say, "Thank you for letting my soul rest in peace."

According to Japanese media reports, 90% of coffins in Japan are produced in Caoxian County, Shandong Province, China. From Cao County’s monopoly on the Japanese coffin market, we can get a glimpse of the development path of a poor county. In Caoxian County, there are almost 300,000 people engaged in the wood processing industry. Zhuangzhai Town alone has 2,569 wood processing companies and more than 5,000 self-employed individuals, with an annual output value of 50 billion yuan, almost equivalent to the economic size of a county in central China.

If the wood processed in this town every year were stacked up in an area the size of a football field, it would be as tall as the Jin Mao Tower in Shanghai. The advantage of raw materials alone is not enough. Caoxian Coffin is able to occupy the Japanese market. In addition to high quality and low price, it also firmly grasps the needs of the Japanese.

Based on the above information, the ridicule on the Internet is all a joke. As a small county, Cao County’s spirit of combining its own advantages to develop the economy is worth learning!