Minquan County, Shangqiu City, Henan Province, central China - Recent (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Various of trucks moving into warehouse
2. Various of employee talking to lumpers
3. Various of lumpers working
4. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Jiang Xiaoyun, general manager, Henan Combine Electrical Appliances Company (ending with shots 5-6):
"We are shipping eight 12-meter-long containers to Ghana, Africa today, including 800-liter freezers and extra-large 3.6-meter-wide freezers."
5. Various of employees working at warehouse
6. Boxes of freezers
7. Various of warehouse, cargo being loaded
8. Various of employees discussing sales data, checking products
9. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Jiang Xiaoyun, general manager, Henan Combine Electrical Appliances Company (starting with shot 8):
"The demand for freezers continues to grow in Africa and other markets. The customers considered 800-liter or 1,000-liter freezers large, so they were very surprised when they saw our 2,500-liter freezers."
10. Various of large freezers
11. Various of cooling appliances factory interior
12. Various of control cabinet, employees collecting data
13. Various of employee working in office, computer screen showing data
14. Various of employees testing products
15. Various of employee working on refrigeration compressor performance test system
16. Various of employees in meeting, discussion
17. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Liao Xiaoning, deputy chief engineer, Henan Asbeila Refrigeration Company (starting with shot 16, ending with shot 18):
"By making new plans and new prototypes, we came up with a most cost-effective and reliable solution to meet customers' needs."
18. Sign of Minquan High and New Technology Industrial Zone
19. Aerial shot of factories

Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, south China - Recent (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
20. Various of air conditioner company employees talking with foreign customers
21. Various of air conditioners on conveyor belt
22. Various of employees working
23. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Xie Jingfu, production director, Dongguan JHS Electrical Company (ending with shot 24):
"Now, we produce about 5,000 air conditioners per day. Our peak daily capacity is over 8,000 air conditioners."
24. Various of air conditioner production line
25. Various of employee working on product design
26. Various of tent air conditioners
27. Employees talking with foreign customers
28. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Jiang Zhiming, deputy director, Dongguan JHS Electrical Company (starting with shots 26-27):
"We are developing air conditioners for tents, recreational vehicles and trucks to lay the foundation for expanding into more markets in the future."
29. Employees in meeting

Chinese cooling appliances are enjoying a robust export surge powered by customized innovation and technological breakthroughs.

Lumpers working for a freezer factory in central China's Henan Province often has to read loading plans before packing the loads, otherwise they might find the cargo - giant freezers in varying customized sizes - oversized.

Located in Henan's Minquan County, a hub with over 140 refrigeration companies, the Henan Combine Electrical Appliances Company boasts a strong capacity for customizing giant freezers for customers around the world.

"We are shipping eight 12-meter-long containers to Ghana, Africa today, including 800-liter freezers and extra-large 3.6-meter-wide freezers," said Jiang Xiaoyun, general manager of the company.

The company's giant freezers have been in popular demand, with the growth rate reaching 324 percent in April and orders in the first half of the year exceeding 90 percent of the total volume in 2024.

"The demand for freezers continues to grow in Africa and other markets. The customers considered 800-liter or 1,000-liter freezers large, so they were very surprised when they saw our 2,500-liter freezers," Jiang said.

In addition to size flexibility, the company has also worked with its local partners to widen the voltage tolerance of freezers to 160-260V to tackle Africa's unstable voltage, and co-developed solutions with local compressor manufacturers to ensure stable performances of freezers in high temperatures.

"By making new plans and new prototypes, we came up with a most cost-effective and reliable solution to meet customers' needs," said Liao Xiaoning, deputy chief engineer of the Henan Asbeila Refrigeration Company.

Meanwhile, the Dongguan JHS Electrical Company in south China's Guangdong Province is selling mobile air conditioners to more than 150 countries and regions in Europe, the Americas and Australia.

By the end of May, the company's mobile air conditioner orders grew by 10 percent year on year.

"Now, we produce about 5,000 air conditioners per day. Our peak daily capacity is over 8,000 air conditioners," said Xie Jingfu, production director of JHS.

To remain at the forefront of the industry, JHS continues to develop new products in its labs.

"We are developing air conditioners for tents, recreational vehicles and trucks to lay the foundation for expanding into more markets in the future," said Jiang Zhiming, deputy director of JHS.

China's exports of cooling appliances posed a significant growth in the first five months of the year, according to the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Machinery and Electronic Products.

In the Jan-May period, home air conditioner exports surged by 17.8 percent year on year to 9.45 billion U.S. dollars, fans exports rose by 7.1 percent year on year to 5.65 billion U.S. dollars, and refrigerator exports reached 3.32 billion U.S. dollars, up 5.1 percent year on year.