Governments at all levels in China attach great importance to the development of their own synthetic leather industry. Since the reform and opening up, synthetic leather has experienced double-digit growth every year, and the synthetic leather industry is booming. Synthetic leather has now largely replaced natural leather with insufficient resources, and has been more widely used. China has become a major producer of synthetic leather in the world. The production enterprises are mainly concentrated in coastal cities such as Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Guangdong and Shandong. In recent years, in order to meet the ever-increasing environmental protection requirements at home and abroad and the increasing health and safety needs of consumers, eco-synthetic leather has been favored by more and more people.

Wenzhou is one of the regions with the earliest development of market economy in the country. It is China's shoe capital and an important garment production base. This unique economic environment provides a broad market space for the development of Wenzhou synthetic leather. The rapid development of the artificial leather and synthetic leather industry in Wenzhou area reflects the rapid development of China's artificial leather and synthetic leather industry from one side. The artificial leather and synthetic leather enterprises in Wenzhou area accounted for 38.8 of the total number of domestic production enterprises, and the number of production lines accounted for 47%, almost controlling half of the entire industry.

With the acceleration of the internationalization of the market, the output of clothing leather, luggage leather, furniture and interior decoration leather will maintain a steady growth. Mid-to-high-end, high-value-added microfiber synthetic leather for footwear and synthetic leather for breathable garments will grow rapidly as they develop and expand their application areas. The synthetic leather industry has a promising future. High-tech wet PU breathable leather and microfiber substrate will be the development direction of PU leather and synthetic leather in the future.