Qingdao town's wig workshops head and shoulders above rest

The township of Ligezhuang in Jiaozhou, a county-level city belonging to Qingdao, Shandong province, may only cover 75.8 square kilometers, but it's far more international than most towns of its size in China. Nearly every factory and store in the township has billboards written in at least three languages.

Ligezhuang is the largest highend wig-making center in the world, producing more than 40 percent of the high-end wigs on the global market. It also makes about one-sixth of the world's hats and caps, according to the township government.

Ligezhuang's wig industry dates back to the 1980s when Japanese and South Korean companies began investing there. Today, almost every family has members involved in the business, said Gao Yuqian, an official from the cross-border e-commerce industrial park of the China-SCO Local Economic and Trade Cooperation Demonstration Area, which is located in Jiaozhou.