In December 2011, Lin 'an was officially named "China Tool Hardware Production Base (Lin 'an)" by China Hardware Products Association.
Lin 'an District is the jurisdiction of Hangzhou City, is the national comprehensive strength of 100 districts, the national rural innovation and entrepreneurship typical county.
Lin 'an tools and hardware industry started in the 1970s. After more than ten years of development, a number of private enterprises have developed rapidly, with the production concentration, market share and brand influence expanding year by year. From mold development to assembly, screw, nut and other parts production, surface treatment processing, packaging supplies design and production, tools and hardware industry upstream and downstream industry chain has been developed quite perfect. Now, Lin 'an has become a shining star in the tool and hardware industry of the Yangtze River Delta and even the whole country.
Lin 'an tool enterprises mainly concentrated in the Sun town, Yuqian town, Tianmushan town, of which the Sun town accounted for more than 80%. In 2001, Sun Town planned an area of 1550 mu of hardware tools industrial functional area. The development and construction of industrial functional area is the transformation of industrial cluster from relatively loose to more concentrated industrial zone.
Lin 'an's most famous hardware tools are carp pliers, pump pliers, wrenches, in 2011, the annual output reached 180 million pieces. With the upgrading of manufacturing, most of the tools and hardware enterprises in Lin 'an have realized specialized production, and the internal division of labor has been further refined. In addition, most of Lin 'an tools and hardware enterprises also began to use the Internet to sell their products all over the world, especially in the European and American markets are widely praised.