In my country, many people don’t know that 40% of women’s underwear and 80% of home clothes are produced in Chaonan District, Shantou City, Guangdong. Therefore, when talking about the underwear and homewear industry, we have to talk about Chaonan.
Chaonan Textile has a huge scale
In Chaonan, underwear and home clothing is known as the “big” industrial development scale. Shantou is one of the most important underwear industry clusters in my country, and even plays a decisive role in the underwear industry around the world. It is the place with the most complete range of underwear in my country.
Gurao’s bra, Chendian’s bra, Simapu’s pajamas, Xiashan’s home clothes, Lugang’s Thermal underwear, even socks from Narita, and underwear from nearby Puning (Chaoshan in the traditional sense), all kinds of underwear products are available, forming a unique pattern of my country’s clothing industry cluster.
Complete industrial supporting facilities
The premise of industrial clusters is complete supporting facilities, and this is the area with the most complete industrial chain. It is reported that Chaonan District has 3,074 underwear and home clothing manufacturing companies, and more than 7,000 upstream and downstream operating units in textile, knitting, printing and dyeing, printing and sales, employing 93,900 people, and owning a variety of well-known brands.
Chaonan women’s underwear production accounts for about 40% of the country’s total, home clothing production accounts for about 80% of the country’s production, and surface accessories product production is about Accounting for 35% of the country’s total, the region’s total output of underwear and home clothing has accounted for half of the country’s total. Its sales network covers the national market, and its industrial scale ranks first among the major underwear and home clothing industry clusters in the country. Among my country’s innerwear and homewear production areas, Chaonan District ranks first in five categories: “industrial scale, complete industrial supporting facilities, national sales, number of well-known brands, and number of labels.” At the same time, it is also the only county in the country that has three “national-level” textile and garment professional town titles. It has won the title of “China’s Famous Underwear and Home Clothing City” and was rated as “Guangdong Province’s key cultivation industry cluster for the transformation and upgrading of the garment industry.”
Chaonan District’s underwear, home and clothing industry has a long history of development and a profound folk foundation, and has a “hundred-year commercial port” reputation. At the beginning of the last century, handmade workshops integrating cutting, tailoring and sewing began to appear in Chaonan. By the middle of the last century, with the close development of Hong Kong’s trade relations, Xiashan Town became a distribution center for fabrics and garments. After the reform and opening up, Chaonan’s underwear and home clothing industry started from the “three to one supplement” clothing processing, driving the sudden rise of the urban and rural textile industry. Chaonan District, as the main gathering area for the underwear and home furnishing industry, has maintained a strong momentum of development.
After more than 60 years of development, Chaonan has become the largest and most densely populated textile and clothing production enterprise in my country and even the world. One of the origins of home clothing, underwear, underwear surface accessories and accessories, it has become the largest gathering area for underwear and home clothing in the country. It is reported that there are about 3,000 related manufacturers of underwear and home clothing.
New opportunities for development
Since January 1, 2019, all 132 printing and dyeing companies in Chaonan District, Shantou City, Guangdong Province have stopped production and entered a transition period. When these companies can enter the park to resume production and the current construction progress of the comprehensive textile printing and dyeing environmental protection treatment center in Chaonan District are directly related to the orderly development of the textile and garment industry in the future.
The Chaonan District Textile Printing and Dyeing Environmental Protection Comprehensive Treatment Center project adopts the PPP model. The project takes “circular economy” as the core design concept – establishing printing and dyeing production, sewage treatment, recycled water utilization, centralized heating, clean energy power generation, slag and ash Six-in-one circular economy model for brick making.
▲Detailed planning of Shantou Chaonan Textile Printing and Dyeing Environmental Protection Treatment Center
Starting from the source of production, printing and dyeing enterprises produce wastewater during the production process— – After the sewage treatment plant treats industrial wastewater, part of it is discharged into the sea after reaching the standard, and part is reprocessed to form reclaimed water (sludge is produced in the sewage treatment process) – the sludge is reused to the combined heat and power plant for incineration to generate electricity and heat (generate The electricity and steam are provided to printing and dyeing enterprises) – the ash generated by incineration is used for brick making (suitable for outdoor road paving, etc.).
The day to resume production is getting closer
On the morning of September 19, Chaonan District Textile The No. 1 boiler of the combined heat and power project of the Printing and Dyeing Environmental Protection Comprehensive Treatment Center was successfully ignited and officially entered the overall commissioning and operation stage of the first phase of the combined heat and power project system.
On August 26, reporters were at the construction site of the GM factory project. The person in charge of Chuanghuihuang Engineering Department told reporters that the GM factory project is currently under construction. , the company’s progress is the fastest. At present, 95% of the equipment installation has been completed. The workers are busy connecting the equipment pipelines and making full preparations to resume production.
▲Feng Yongqiang, head of the Chuanghuihuang Engineering Department
On August 26, at the construction site of Longfeng Printing and Dyeing’s self-built factory, workers No. 500 and 600 were braving the scorching sun and heat to step up construction. There are 6 workers in this project Three main buildings, of which three main factories have been capped. Currently, the company is working hard on the internal decoration of the main factory buildings and installing equipment, and trial production is expected to be in November.
The person in charge of the company said that although they still have concerns about the loss of customers and talent, seeing the park take shape step by step makes them feel more confident, and they hope to use this “labor pain” to change the situation. Come to the “new life” of enterprises and even the entire industry.
▲Zheng Linglong, the person in charge of Longfeng Printing and Dyeing
Saving energy and reducing consumption Efficiency improvement and emission reduction are based on this 8-character policy. We are relatively confident and hope to move into the park through this overall shutdown. We hope to improve the company’s entire company in terms of management, product upgrades, and process optimization. The management level has been improved, and the service level has been improved.
Chaonan Printing and Dyeing Park will become a benchmark for the industry
The premise for the development of industrial clusters is complete supporting facilities, and Chaoshan is In areas with the most complete industrial chain, it is urgent for the textile printing and dyeing industry to seek a way out under the new environmental protection situation. In recent years, the construction and upgrading of printing and dyeing industrial parks in many places across the country have provided development samples for the industry.
Environmental protection enterprises + printing and dyeing industrial parks have become a new model for the development of the printing and dyeing industry. The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area not only has mature technical conditions for the textile and apparel industry, but also has a superior geographical location. It is said that in the future, textile and apparel orders from all Southeast Asia may flow back to this “gold pool.” In order to seize this industry opportunity, Guangdong’s printing and dyeing industry must promote industry transformation, vigorously use new technologies, new processes, new auxiliaries, new dyes, introduce new talents, and promote the upgrading and development of the textile printing and dyeing industry to a new stage! </p
