Recently, China Light Industry Federation and China Writing Instrument Association formally conferred to Qingyuan the title of "China Pencil Production Base", symbolizing that Qingyuan has become a "new landmark" in the domain of the national pencil production.
It is reported that there are altogether 23 pencil production enterprises in Qingyuan County at present, including 15 enterprises above designated size with annual output of 3.5 billion pencils, which account for one fourth of the national total output of pencils. Moreover, the county plans to accomplish an investment of 0.4 billion RMB yuan in capital asset and 0.35 billion RMB yuan in technical reform within five years, aiming to make Qingyuan a most influential pencil research and development base at home and broad.