In 2007 US Police seized more than 300.000 pairs of fake Nike in New York. Involving a total value of more than 31 Million US Dollars. These fake shoes from China stunned Americans and for this reason the New York Times reporter also made a special trip to China to do investigative. Interviews finally it was discovered that these fake Nike shoes all came from a mysterious place Putian Fujian since then the name of counterfeit shoes. Capital Putian Fujian has spread around the world.
In 2018 the New York Police cracked another Air Jordan fake shoes case the source of the fake shoes all came from China in the two-year period from 2016 to 2018. The New York Police alone seized 385.000 pairs of fake shoes of Jordan brand. Shoes that this group has sold cost Nike a direct loss of more than 70 million US Dollars, what industry professionals find most unbelievable is that after inspecting all the details it is impossible to tell that the shoes are fake. It is said that Putian people have a dream is to make brand names affordable to the whole world, obviously this is just an ironic joke but there have been mainland media reports that in the Chinese market 9 out of 10 pairs of fake.
Shoes are made in Putian one out of three pairs of Nike shoes in the world are faked. In Putian, Putian Footwear Association 2021 statistics show that there are currently more than 4.200 shoe manufacturing enterprises more than 500.000 hired workers with a production value of more than 100 Billion Yen. Putian makes both real and fake shoes and is one of the largest domestic and foreign shoe OEM production bases in China as well as the capital of fake shoes where the production of fake shoes has formed a complete industrial chain.
Located in the center of Putian City, Anfu E-commerce Mall is the distribution center of fake shoes during the day time, all the stores are closed except for a few convenient stores and almost no one is around, but at night especially after 10 o'clock it is the most prosperous place in Putian. There are bright lights a lot of people a lot of traffic and almost everyone is talking in low voices, paying money and picking up goods even streets that are several blocks nearby, are often jammed by traffic so this place is called ghost market.
The Anfu E-commerce Mall is surrounded by various industries related to fake shoes hundreds of thousands of people are engaged in Wechat business and online store business it is said that the transaction volume here can reach 200 Million RMB (~28 Million USD) in one night. In 2017 a reporter from Beijing Youth Daily paid a secret visit to this place and revealed an industrial chain of manufacturing sales and transportation of fake shoes, the stores in the e mall are generally not large several pairs of brand name shoes are placed on the shoe rack. The most commonly seen well-known sports brands such as Adidas, Nike and New Balance, but when you look closely you will find that the logo is different than the famous brand logo by a fewletters or a slightly alternation of graphics the shoe keeper said this is their own brand but the shoes on display.
