The industry of making needles in China has a long history. According to the recordings of archaeological materials, a bone needle was excavated from the late Paleolithic Era’s ruins in Shangdingdong, Zhoukoudian, Beijing.
In the middle 19th century, Chinese craftsmen were still using traditional method of filing by hand to make needles, while the British needle-making industry’s procedures of manufacturing needles had most achieved mechanization.
Qingdao, a beautiful coastal city, is one of the cradles for national industry in the contemporary era. In the 1920s, Yin Zhizhong, a person from Shangdong’s Ye County, went to Japan to learn the technique of making needles.