Dainan town in Xinghua. [Photo/WeChat account: xinghuafabu]
During the 2025 Jiangsu Football City League, also known as Suchao, multiple place names with the Chinese character "nan" have sparked heated discussions. Dainan town in Xinghua, Jiangsu province, is among them, renowned for its strength in the stainless steel industry.
Since China's reform and opening-up, Dainan has seized the development opportunities of the stainless steel industry and gradually built a full industry chain system from raw materials, smelting, rolling, to deep processing and e-commerce sales.
At present, the town is home to over 3,000 registered enterprises, with annual invoice sales of nearly 60 billion yuan ($8.41 billion).
Besides its industrial strength, Dainan also features profound cultural heritage. It boasts multiple national intangible cultural heritage items such as Maoshan Haozi folk music and boat racing events around Tomb Sweeping Day.
Dainan is driving surrounding cities and districts through industrial influence, sharing economic benefits with more areas.
The local government is also integrating the spirit of hard work in competitive sports into grassroots governance by organizing sports competitions for enterprise employees and fitness activities for villagers.