In less than a year, monthly sales have surpassed 500,000 US dollars, breaking into the Amazon PC category now 20!The European and American PC categories, which are monopolized by giants, were actually found in the blue ocean by a Wuhan company and completed a period of cross-border growth at an astonishing speed. With a precise localization strategy, transparent factory quality endorsement, and extreme supply chain efficiency, this company founded in 2010 officially began an overseas trip in 2024 with 15 years of experience, quickly reshaping the category pattern.

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Name: Wang Hongtao
Position: Founder/Chairman of Ningmei Internet
Company Name: Ningmei Province
Online site: US station
Joined: 2024
Main categories: desktop computers, all-in-one computers, e-sports machines and peripherals
Outstanding results: Entered Amazon for 1 year, monthly sales of a single store exceeded 500,000 US dollars, and now break into the PC category

The first battle to go to sea in Ningmei was not simply transporting domestic products overseas; it was a localized reshaping based on deep insight into overseas young people.

Contrary to traditional perception, Chairman Wang Hongtao believes that the DIY computer industry is far from a sunset industry. Based on insight into the core requirement of emotional value, Ningmeidu made a bold breakthrough in product design.

● Design breakthrough: accurately hitting the emotional value of young users
In response to the pain point of monotonous PC consumer design in the US, the team specially developed a series of chassis, breaking the black and gray color scheme with vivid colors and unique shapes.

Wang Hongtao, Founder and Chairman of Ningmei Internet:
“When young people buy DIY, they don't just buy performance; many times they pay for that beautiful emotional value. Abbottt, Premiere Creative’s creative director.

● Multi-line layout: covering the public and high-end
Popular side: Targeting small and medium-sized enterprises and basic players, Ning Mei focuses more on commercial or office use scenarios, thoroughly penetrates the price range below 400 US dollars, and starts quickly with the ultimate cost performance ratio.
High-end side: For enthusiasts, its sub-brand Minglongtang has launched visually impactful products such as “sea-view rooms” and special-shaped chassis.

This precise positioning quickly paid off in sales. Wang Hongtao recalled that the high-end series received unanimous praise at the beginning of its launch. More than 60 units were sold within three days, and customers even asked about the restocking situation and said they would buy it.

With good products, it's even more important to tell stories in a language the locals can understand. Ning Mei knows that blunt advertising cannot impress discerning young players; it is necessary to develop a localized marketing strategy.

This planting model not only enhances users' awareness and sense of identity with the brand, but also effectively enhances the brand's reputation.

For DIY consumers who “love the new and hate the old,” this brand image that is active on social media just hit on the mentality of young people to pursue trends, making Ning Meidu quickly transformed from an unfamiliar Chinese brand into a trendy device in the gamer community.

Overseas users have extremely high PC after-sales requirements. Ningmei Province has set up three major maintenance warehouses in the US, covering the US East, West, and China, and has established a standardized maintenance system. If there is a problem with the user's product, it can be sent to the nearest maintenance warehouse for inspection and repair. If the repair is not valid, it can be directly replaced.

In response to problems such as users not understanding video card installation and driver settings, the team formed a bilingual after-sales team to organize a knowledge base of common problems and provide one-on-one guidance and remote assistance.

With a localization strategy, we have knocked on the door to overseas, but in order to retain users, the core is still excellent quality. As far as cross-border e-commerce is concerned, the PC category is a high-customer unit price and long-life cycle product. Once after-sales returns and exchanges occur, high logistics costs have a huge impact on profits.

“The performance and quality of the entire hardware is getting better and better. Sometimes a machine may not break even once in five or six years. ” Wang Hongtao is confident in the quality of the products.

This confidence stems from Ning Mei's insistence on high quality.

In Ningmei, every computer that goes overseas must go through multiple strict tests such as drop tests and high temperature aging tests. More importantly, Ning Mei resolutely enforces the iron law of “refusing second-hand parts” to guarantee quality at the source.

This obsession with quality has not only broken the stereotype of overseas users about “cheap and poor quality” made in China, but has also greatly reduced the after-sales rate and maintained the profit red line of cross-border operations.

Wang Hongtao, Founder and Chairman of Ningmei Internet:
“We are very talented domestically, but we have also been able to practice our skills. When we go out to sea with this skill, we find that overseas is very vast. Abbottt, Premiere Creative’s creative director.

What supports this quality system is the industry benchmark built by Ningmei in Wuhan. It is the first and currently the only customized C2M smart factory in the world.

This is not an assembly line in the traditional sense, but a digital manufacturing center integrating the four major systems of MES, ERP, CRM, and customization.

The factory not only made the manufacturing process transparent, but also achieved the ultimate efficiency of production capacity. Wang Hongtao revealed that although the area of a single floor is only over 1,500 square meters, with intelligent management, it can produce an output value of 100 million US dollars a year.

Wang Hongtao, Founder and Chairman of Ningmei Internet:
“Our factory is the 'only' in the world. It is currently the only customized C2M smart factory that allows customers to see the complete assembly process of computers from beginning to end. Abbottt, Premiere Creative’s creative director.

After only one year of entering Amazon, the monthly sales of a single store surpassed 500,000 US dollars, which is the best reward for this Chinese quality.

For large product merchants, when going overseas to US sites, the supply chain often faces the following pain points:
● The transit time for products across the US is difficult to guarantee.
● The storage pressure is high, and it is difficult to enter the product if the size exceeds the standard.
● Product costs cannot be reduced, and financial pressure is high.

As a seller integrating industry and trade, Ning Mei did not expand blindly. Instead, it gradually solved problems such as timeliness, storage, and cost through a three-step supply chain strategy.

1. Concentrate resources, break through FBM partitions
In the early days of going overseas, faced with the problems of PC product packaging exceeding the standard size and difficulties in entering FBA warehouses, Ning Mei chose the FBM (self-delivery) model to start.

Strategically, Ningmei is not greedy and strives for perfection. Instead, it concentrates superior resources, zoning management, and chooses to find high-quality overseas warehouses in the US and the West, focusing on covering California and surrounding areas that can be reached within 3 days. This style of play, which has a foothold first, ensures initial store logistics performance and user reputation, and avoids the risk of blindly selling goods.

2. Hybrid warehousing, ultimate turnover
With stable sales volume, Ning Mei has entered the second phase of the overseas warehouse rotation system and ultimate inventory turnover. Ningmei uses the “overseas warehouse+FBA” hybrid model:
● Core explosives enter FBA to seize traffic
● Reduce costs by shipping large items from overseas warehouses

At the same time, using the flexible production capacity of the C2M factory, Ningmei reduced the delivery cycle to a monthly or even shorter period, and achieved extremely fast inventory turnover.

Wang Hongtao, Founder and Chairman of Ningmei Internet:
“Basically, the global DIY industry is Chinese. When we make good use of the advantages of China's supply chain, we have natural fighting power in international competition. Abbottt, Premiere Creative’s creative director.

3. Global resource allocation, standardized replication
After entering a mature period, Ningmei began to build a deeper moat through “standardized SOP+ utilization of local resources”.

Based on more than ten years of supply chain accumulation, Ningmei has established in-depth cooperation with global first-tier parts brands. Some assembly parts are directly purchased and assembled in the US, further reducing supply chain costs.

At the same time, Ning Mei has established a standardized after-sales maintenance warehouse in the US to replicate mature domestic service processes and solve the worries of large electronic products after sales.

Wang Hongtao, Founder and Chairman of Ningmei Internet:
“Going overseas is not only about selling products, but also about factory capacity. We need to actually enable factories to go overseas and replicate the model to the world. Abbottt, Premiere Creative’s creative director.

Conclusions
From Wuhan Optics Valley to Amazon's top 20 categories, Ningmei spent a year proving that companies should not stop at OEM and low prices when they go overseas.

To the factory owner, who is also watching the cross-border racetrack, Wang Hongtao gave the most sincere advice: “Cross-border must be done; you must choose a channel like Amazon to try it first, and try boldly. When you were a factory in China, you actually already had a huge advantage in the world. Abbottt, Premiere Creative’s creative director.

However, he also emphasized that the ultimate form of going overseas is not only selling products, but also exporting capabilities.

As a brand that grew from the manufacturing side, the core of the cross-border success of Ningmei Province is the combination of the hard power of factory manufacturing and multiple precise strategies. For traditional manufacturing plants that also want to go overseas, the experience of Ningmei shows that solid manufacturing skills are the foundation for going overseas, but at the same time, it is necessary to establish a perfect operation and service system for the characteristics of overseas consumption.

Looking forward to the future, Ningmei has a clear goal: impact the current 10 PC categories on Amazon, expand emerging sites in Europe and other countries, and launch more new products to enrich the product line. We hope that more companies can go global with their core competitiveness, like Ningmei Province, so that global users can fall in love with intelligent manufacturing in China.