Quanzhou Jinjiang footwear and apparel: which last the repeat faces, who signs the size run, where the audit walks

A Spanish buyer posts last season’s sports shoe back to Jinjiang with an EU 40–45 size run and writes: “Repeat last PO. Same last. Audit in Quanzhou this week. HK invoice OK.” Sales returns a Shoe Expo hall door, a Hong Kong PI and a short stitching clip: “Quanzhou source, same-last repeat.” The buyer asks again: where is the last, is there a 40.5, and does the audit walk the exhibition centre or a street in Chendai. Sales copies the booth number into the audit address.

The plant says last season’s last is on loan and this week only a near last is free. The trading house wants to retitle a Wenzhou leather-shoe test report as “already through Europe.” Finance wants the Shoe Expo stall fee written into the unit price as officially required. The sole sits in one plant, the upper in another, and the finished shoe has not yet booked the old line. Membership wired to ALIBABA.COM HONG KONG LIMITED will not buy a last and will not buy a signed size chart.

Do not answer a repeat with “Quanzhou can make it.” Face the last, the size chart and the licence address first. How Wenzhou shoes are quoted is on the Wenzhou paper — leather shoes, pumps and valves, eyewear, another set of counties. Do not paste a Shoe City door plate onto a Jinjiang stitching line. Origin is on China goods are not Hong Kong origin. Below follows the repeat, the size run and the audit address.

Which Jinjiang last the repeat faces — not “Quanzhou can make it”

What Hong Kong-channel sellers get in Quanzhou for sports footwear is usually last season’s pair, not a blank inquiry. A repeat asks three things first: is the last still here, is the upper still the same plant, is cementing still the same line. If one answer is “no,” this is a near model, not the original booking.

The Quanzhou plan writes Jinjiang’s focus as sportswear, school and workwear, swimwear and underwear, casual menswear, sports shoes, leather shoes and slippers. Name whether this booking is a sports shoe or a sports garment. Binding a slipper report behind a running shoe is how the lab treats it as missing. Shishi’s garment chain is written as another county-city class. If the work sat in Shishi, write Shishi. Do not relabel it a Jinjiang sports shoe.

“Quanzhou can make it” will not cover a last number. Jinjiang can make sports shoes; that is not the same as opening a Wenzhou leather-shoe last. It can make sportswear; that is not the same as pouring a Yongjia valve. Write the last number or style number in the first sentence, then which Jinjiang plant. Until the style is locked, the county plan is background.

Do not write a near model and the original into one lead time. The original waits for the last to come back. A near model re-locks the upper and the size run. Writing a near-model lead time as the original is how the buyer opens Trade Assurance and finds the stitching line still booked for someone else. Reply in full sentences: which plant holds the last, whether the original last can be used, where the near model differs, and the two lead times.

Private label is messier. The buyer’s brand sits on the tongue, stitching sits in Jinjiang, the sole is bought in, the shoe box sits in another plant. The manufacturer still faces the step that conferred origin — not the brand’s registration city, not the Hong Kong contract company, and not a Shoe Expo stall number. Write the work steps into the reply before you decide which photos to send.

Jinjiang municipality also has a launch note for a global footwear, apparel and textile supply-chain innovation centre. That is a supply-chain and shoe-textile-city arrangement, not a “Jinjiang general-plant certificate” you can buy. A planning name does not go into the PI as already certified.

The email that asks the plant for repeat papers should read: “Please reply in writing: is last season’s last number still in this plant; is this booking same last and same line; did the sole or the upper change outside plants. A hall photo is not enough.” Do not send only “need Quanzhou source.”

Last season’s PO number is not a last number. A PO is a sale number. A last is a physical mould. Copying the PO into the manufacturer box leaves the plant unable to match a rack. Ask for a last-rack photo or a last-number list facing this pair. If the last rack sits at another mould plant, name that plant. Who pays for the mould and where it sits go in an attachment. Do not bind them with goods money as “already included in Jinjiang.”

A sportswear repeat faces a paper pattern and a fabric lot, not a shoe last. Changing sleeve width on a top changes consumption. If the fabric was bought again from Keqiao or locally, origin work may split into cut-and-sew and fabric. If this booking is only the garment, the fabric supplier still has to be explainable. Pasting shoe-repeat language onto a garment is how measurement points fail to match.

Leather shoes, slippers and sports shoes in the Jinjiang plan are not one pair. Slipper moulding and running-shoe cementing are not one line. If a buyer writes slippers and running shoes into one “Quanzhou shoe” mail, split them into two confirmations. A box can be stuffed. A last cannot be shared.

The size chart moved half a size: ask whether it is still the same stitching line

The second thing that stalls sports footwear this week is size. Buyers send EU 40–45; some want 40.5; some want a US conversion. A size chart is not a row in a spreadsheet. It is a last, a stitching line and upper consumption.

On a half-size change, ask first whether the last is enough, whether the upper must be recut, and whether the stitching line still accepts the old process sheet. A plant saying “we will adjust half a size ourselves” does not go into the PI. Name in writing who confirmed the size chart, whether it is the original last or a near last, and which booking the confirmation date faces.

Sportswear sizes are another set. Do not bind S–XXL tops and EU shoe sizes into one unread confirmation. Fabric shrinkage, print position and garment measurement points each get their own lines. Copying a shoe size chart into a garment contract is how destination returns “this is not the piece.”

If kids’ shoes or kids’ wear enter the same RFQ, ask whether the destination has extra items. Without a composition or mechanical-safety path that faces the lot, do not retitle an adult report. Writing “Jinjiang has done kids’ shoes” into the unit price is not something a lab will accept.

Spanish buyers often treat last season’s wear feel as the bulk standard. Change the last and the feel changes. Do not cut until the size chart is signed. Cutting locks consumption. Changing a size after consumption is locked is how money stalls on who pays for the upper.

This booking uses only the US, UK or EU conversion the buyer signed. A chat-room “same as last time” does not enter the contract. If last time was a Wenzhou leather-shoe size, it cannot be pasted onto a Jinjiang runner.

A trading-house sample room can post a near-size sample tomorrow. Bulk stitching needs a slot. If the sample shipper is a city-centre desk, the inner note still has to say which stitching line this pair left and which chart the size faces.

Size confirmation has to land on measurement points. For a sports shoe at least write: ball girth, heel height, tongue length, and which method. For sportswear, which garment measurement chart. An “EU 40–45” with no points leaves the plant free to use its own habit, and unboxing starts by arguing whose half size it is. If the buyer’s chart and the plant’s chart differ, the signed one wins. Attach both.

A top-up and a base order do not share one size confirmation. If the base order already revised the last, the top-up re-confirms. Copying the base confirmation as “Jinjiang forever valid” is how next season’s fabric change changes the feel. Write this PO and this last number on the confirmation. Do not write “everything later follows this sheet.”

Women’s, men’s and kids’ sizes do not share one cell. Kids’ sizes may trigger extra destination items. Ask whether this booking has kids’ sizes. If it does, confirm them on their own page. Do not hide them as a footnote behind an adult runner.

Write the audit address to a Jinjiang licence, not an exhibition-centre stall

When a buyer writes audit in Quanzhou, split whether they want the exhibition centre, the trading house or the stitching line. Jinjiang International Exhibition Centre can be photographed. It cannot show cementing. “Quanzhou can be audited” is not an answer.

Write the audit address as the production domicile on the licence. If that domicile sits in Chendai or another Jinjiang town, write that set. Do not write the exhibition centre, a shoe-textile-city shop number or a Hong Kong secretarial floor. The line that passed Verified Supplier is not automatically the line this repeat faces.

When sole, upper and finished shoe sit in three plants, ask which step the buyer wants to see. Walk cementing for cementing; walk stitching for stitching. Merging the three into “one Jinjiang factory” is how audit day starts by asking which step you are taking them to. Write all three legal names. If one is missing, write that this booking does not have that step yet.

Do not write “Quanzhou in one day: Jinjiang, Shishi and Putian.” County-city gates and drive times are not one set. If this booking’s work sat in Jinjiang, book only Jinjiang that day. If it sat in Shishi garments, book Shishi. Do not swap a Jinjiang Shoe Expo door plate for that visit.

If a Putian plant took one stretch of this pair, write the Putian licence. “Minnan shoes” is not a class that covers a neighbouring city. The buyer is asking where this pair was worked.

Do not use a hall aerial as the audit photo. An aerial is an expo, not stitching. The buyer wants the door plate, the upper in process and this pair’s size as a half-finished piece. If a photo is missing, write that it is not here yet. Do not fill the frame with a neighbour style’s shoe wall.

An RFQ that says “Quanzhou sportswear + shoes, 12 size run, HK company seller” should be met with a question: can shoes and garments be split into two confirmations. A box can be stuffed. The manufacturer box cannot merge into one house. If the garment size set cannot be explained, do not write garments into the same PI.

Do not book the audit on Shoe Expo opening day and still expect to see stitching. Opening day closes roads around the hall, and plants are often pulled onto the stand. If this booking needs a line, book a day the plant is open. A walk-through in the opening note is leadership walking the hall, not this audit.

A chain-brand supplier list will not fill this manufacturer. A market-supervision quality link-up is an industry upgrade, not a licence to write Anta or 361° into your PI. If this booking is only one stretch as a chain member’s outside plant, write that stretch’s licence. Printing a chain-brand mark on your shoe box as “our factory” is how IP and the manufacturer box fail together.

Do not write stitching hours and cementing hours as one “Jinjiang fifteen days.” Cementing waits for the upper; the upper waits for materials. Copying three hour counts into one lead time is how a Spanish buyer opens Trade Assurance and finds the sole still outside. Write three lines: upper, cementing, finished-shoe packing.

If the shoe box, hangtag and certificate of conformity are printed in another Jinjiang plant, name the printer. A wrong size on the box is returned before a wrong shoe. Film faces the signed size chart, not a chat screenshot. Change the chart and change the film.

When the trading house says “we have several Jinjiang lines,” ask which line this pair is booked on. Several lines can exist. The manufacturer box can only write this booking’s line. Binding six licences as one unread pack is how the audit driver asks which plant first.

Upper print and side emboss are two films. Changing a print colour is changing the process sheet. Changing emboss depth may change a mould. Writing “a small colour tweak” as no re-open is how the plant runs the old film and unboxing returns the side first. A tweak still needs writing: which place, who approved, and whether it is still the same last.

If the outsole formula includes recycled content, write it into the composition path. Do not say “Jinjiang usually does this” out loud. When the destination asks for the lot, a missing recycle ratio sends the report back. Without a note facing this outsole lot, write that this booking does not have that item yet.

Sportswear print positions follow the pattern’s measurement points. Neck and sleeve marks do not share one position confirmation. The care-label size must face the garment chart. If the care label is printed in another plant, write both the printer and the garment plant.

If a rush slot costs extra, write it as a plant quote, not an official rush fee. There is no site-wide official Jinjiang rush price. A chat-room rush does not go into a Trade Assurance remark as already shipped.

If a Spanish size and a French size appear on one RFQ, ask which box mark this booking ships. Two box marks are two print jobs. Mixing them in one carton is how destination pulls the wrong-marked pair first.

Do not use a Shoe Expo volunteer as the audit interpreter. Volunteers know the hall, not stitching. Bring someone from the plant, or write who accompanies. The companion is not the manufacturer.

If laces, insoles and inner boxes are bought in, all three must point to a supplier. Lace colour and upper colour are not automatically one vat — laces are often another webbing plant. Colour-match the upper; write the laces separately. Missing laces is how unboxing jumps to the laces first.

If “same last for bulk” only locked 40–44, size 45 may need another last. Adding a last is adding a confirmation. Writing “the full run exists” into the PI when the plant only holds middle-size lasts is how the ends come out near. Write the end sizes on their own line: original last or near last.

“Jinjiang experience” on a municipal page is a development phrase, not this booking’s audit stamp. Do not print “Jinjiang experience” on the shoe box as a certificate. A Hong Kong English name on the box must not read Made in Hong Kong.

If Quanzhou Development Zone or Licheng took a sportswear stretch, write that district’s licence. The plan also writes Licheng as a sportswear and sports-shoe class. If the work sat in Licheng, write Licheng. Do not relabel it Jinjiang because the name is easier to remember. The buyer is asking for a door plate, not a city slogan.

The standard number on the shoe-box certificate of conformity has to face this pair. Do not copy a neighbour style. A wrong number is how the destination rejects “Jinjiang usual.” If there is no number, write that this booking does not have it yet. Do not invent a number that looks like a standard.

Stitching-thread colour and upper colour are not automatically one colour. Write the thread separately. Missing thread colour is what unboxing sees first. Changing thread colour does not change the last; it does change the process-sheet attachment.

If bulk leaves in two lots, lock a size band on each lot. If the first lot is only 40–42, do not click Trade Assurance “full run shipped.” Short sizes first and long sizes later need writing. Spanish retail shelves a full run; a missing size is returned first.

Measure insole thickness with inner length. Locking only the outer size is how inner length comes out short. If the buyer’s inner-length chart and the plant’s chart differ, the signed one wins. Without an inner-length chart, write that this booking follows the plant chart and attach it.

Skipped stitches and broken stitches need a written outgoing sample count. Without a record, an audit asks how you released the lot. The record faces this pair. Do not retitle a neighbour style’s inspection sheet.

Eyelet and lace-hole spacing follow the last. Changing hole pitch is changing the upper. Without writing, the plant punches the old pitch and lacing stalls first. Bind hole-pitch confirmation with size confirmation in the same mail, on two lines. If one line is missing, write that this booking does not have that item yet.

Split sole, upper and finished shoe — a Wenzhou door plate will not stick

A Hong Kong company invoicing, a Jinjiang trading house following, and a Jinjiang or outside plant making the goods can stand at once. A Wenzhou Shoe City door plate will not stick to this sports-shoe last. Copying the Wenzhou paper’s pump or leather-shoe path here is how size and cementing fail to match.

The commercial-invoice seller can be the Hong Kong company; line the fields up with 141.86. Origin is still China, written as Jinjiang or the actual work address. Do not change origin to the port because the forwarder says Xiamen is easier, and do not write Chendai as a district of Hong Kong.

Xiamen or Quanzhou Port is the load port. A load port appears on the bill of lading. Do not copy it into the invoice origin box. FOB Xiamen, CIF Valencia and EXW a Jinjiang warehouse face three delivery points. Do not write “we deliver Jinjiang” as “we deliver the port area” without naming which warehouse. Papers are on the export documents checklist.

US dollars at the Hong Kong company, renminbi at the stitching plant, and a separate “rush slot” at the trading house will not match four-flow consistency. Finance should not write a Shoe Expo stall fee as an official price. There is no site-wide official Jinjiang shipping price. Follow-up, stitching and ocean freight go on split lines.

A Hong Kong company has no Jinjiang stitching line. When the buyer asks for a warehouse address, give the Jinjiang finished-goods warehouse or the actual yard — not the exhibition-centre unloading dock. Name which warehouse will be filmed. Filming a shoe wall as the packing floor is how destination unboxing fails to match. If the shoe is still on the line and the boxes have already moved to the warehouse, the video still has to show this pair’s size.

If a carton prints the Hong Kong English name, do not print Made in Hong Kong. The size on the shoe box must face the signed chart. Do not print a last number as a booth number.

How titles line up is on document titles. The seller box and the origin box are not the same cell.

Kids’ shoes, same last for bulk, composition: do not cut until each is locked

What stalls a Jinjiang box is rarely “no stitching.” It is usually that only one of the three locks that should sit before cutting was locked. No invented lab fees or fines.

Same last not locked. Last season’s report faces the old last. If the last was loaned or revised, the old report cannot be retitled. Without a written “same last, same line,” do not click cut.

Size not locked. If 40.5 or a kids’ size still lives in chat, consumption is false. Cutting an upper on the wrong size is how money hits an outside plant and does not come back.

Composition not locked. A sports-shoe upper, lining and sole, and a sportswear fabric, each need their own lot path. A trading house can post a sample shoe. A lab needs a lot and a finished shoe. Without a report facing this booking’s lot, do not write “already through Europe.”

If the report’s applicant is the trading house, the sample came from the stitching plant and the invoice seller is the Hong Kong company, the three names have to be explainable. A lot that does not match is no report. Opening a store does not run the test.

Do not bind a shoe report into a garment folder. Labs receive samples by class. One class, one list. If kids’-shoe mechanical safety is missing, write that this booking does not have that class yet. Do not retitle an adult running-shoe report.

Tongue brand, mould ownership and who approved the upper print go in their own attachments. A chat-room “deposit first, then open the mould” does not enter the contract as an official price.

The supply-chain innovation centre and the shoe-textile city are industry arrangements, not this booking’s certificate. When the buyer asks for a certificate, hand the papers that face this pair’s last and lot.

A materials market can match an upper and a sole half-finished piece the same day. A matching address is not the finished-shoe work address. Writing a shoe-textile-city shop as the factory is how audit day stops at the market gate. Split the matching list, the stitching work order and outgoing inspection. The matching list writes who sold to the plant inland. The work order writes which pair and which size. Outgoing inspection writes which lot. Do not copy the three dates as one “ships this Friday.”

A Chendai shoe-materials chamber appears in the Shoe Expo opening note as a signing. A chamber signing is an expo arrangement, not this booking’s authority. Do not write the chamber name into the PI as manufacturer. This booking is still that licence and that last.

A Xiamen booking, Jinjiang gather-in and a Shishi garment stretch are three warehouse notes. Do not merge them as “Quanzhou warehouse.” When the buyer wants a packing video, name which warehouse is filmed. Filming exhibition-centre unloading as packing is how destination unboxing fails to match. If size 40 is still on the line and size 45 is already in the carton, the video still has to show this booking’s size band. Do not fill the frame with a neighbour style’s shoe wall.

Sales stops “Jinjiang source in one body”; finance stops Shoe Expo official fees

While the buyer is still facing the last and the size chart, do not promise a release date. Delete “Quanzhou source plant,” “Jinjiang can repeat anything” and “Wenzhou shoes count as Jinjiang” from the reply. Write: the contract seller is the Hong Kong company; which last this booking faces; who signed the size chart; which licence the audit walks.

The plant does not cut while the size chart is unlocked. The Hong Kong English name can sit on the invoice. Do not print Made in Hong Kong. Do not print the exhibition-centre door as the factory address. If “same last” is not in writing, do not click Trade Assurance “shipped.”

Finance deletes “Shoe Expo official fee,” “Jinjiang government guide price” and “sports-industry certification fee” from the unit price. There is no site-wide official price. Split stitching, outside work and ocean freight. In the contract and the PI, delete “the seller is Jinjiang’s officially designated general plant,” “store certification equals Shoe Expo filing” and “a Wenzhou or Putian plant equals Jinjiang origin.”

1. Lock the last number in writing: original last, near last, or this booking has no last.
2. Lock the size chart in writing: which conversion, who signed, whether it includes half sizes or kids’ sizes.
3. Write the audit address to a Jinjiang licence, not the exhibition centre.
4. Name sole, upper and finished shoe apart; a Wenzhou door plate does not appear on this booking.
5. A membership receipt does not go into the plant pack.

Corpable can sit with you on whether the last, the size chart and the audit address line up. We do not open stitching lines, we do not sign size charts, and we do not guarantee an audit or entry. Membership still goes to ALIBABA.COM HONG KONG LIMITED.

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