Keqiao visit to textile industry – revelation of the development of textile industry in Keqiao District, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province
The world’s textile industry looks at China. From the discovery of silkworms in mulberry forests by our ancestors more than 5,000 years ago, to the domestication of domestic silkworms and reeling and weaving of silk, to the ancestors sailing across the stormy seas with exquisite silk , creating the Maritime Silk Road connecting the East and the West, the textile industry has witnessed the dream of Eastern civilization to go global, and has had an important impact on the spread of Chinese culture. Stretching for thousands of years and spanning tens of thousands of miles, modern China’s textile industry has been baptized by the market and formed the world’s largest and most complete industrial system. China has also become the world’s largest consumer market and producer of textile and clothing products, realizing the transformation from the textile industry to The magnificent transformation from a big country to a powerful country in the textile industry.
China Textile looks at Zhejiang. As an important starting point of the Maritime Silk Road, Zhejiang has been the world’s silk production and trade center since ancient times. Since the reform and opening up, Zhejiang, as a “tide leader” in the private economy and export-oriented economy, has quickly grown into a major textile province in my country, with the most complete textile industry chain. Its chemical fiber output accounts for nearly half of the country’s total, and its printed and dyed cloth output accounts for 10% of the country’s total. More than half of the country’s textile and clothing exports have ranked first in the country for many years.
Zhejiang Textile is in Keqiao. Since ancient times, Keqiao, Shaoxing has been a well-known textile town in the country. As early as the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the “Yueluo” produced here became famous all over the world. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the ancient town of Keqiao “always hears the sound of machines and the sunrises.” Today, it has given birth to the world’s largest textile distribution center with the most varieties of products – China Textile City, which has chemical fiber production, weaving, printing and dyeing, clothing processing, and textile machinery equipment. The entire textile industry chain is integrated with manufacturing, and its sales network covers more than 190 countries and regions. It has established production and marketing relationships with nearly half of the country’s textile companies. A quarter of the world’s fabrics are sold here every year. It is the center of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. A shining pearl.
As an important base for undertaking the eastern cotton textileindustrial transfer, in recent years, with the support of national policies, the Corps Relying on its own unique organizational advantages and geographical advantages in the core area of the Silk Road Economic Belt, it gives full play to its cotton resource advantages and strives to build a base of high-quality cotton yarn, cotton cloth and cotton textiles. The textile industry continues to develop rapidly.
In the new era and new journey, how can the XPCC textile industry strengthen its chains, promote industrial upgrading, and achieve high quality development? Stones from other hills, can learn. Recently, the all-media reporting team of Xingtuan Daily visited Keqiao District, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province to explore its “code” for leading the development of the industry for reference.
Enlightenment 1: From “floating cloth market” to “international textile capital”, industrial development must make a good “first move”
If Keqiao’s textile industry is compared to a train moving at high speed, China Textile City, located in Keqiao Street, Keqiao District, is undoubtedly the “locomotive”. In 2022, the output value of Keqiao’s textile industry, which has developed rapidly relying on the unique advantages of “industry + market”, is expected to reach 120 billion yuan. Among them, China Textile City, whose online and offline transaction volume exceeded 330 billion yuan, is indispensable.
On the eve of the Spring Festival, the reporter and his party came to the Dongsheng Road Market in China Textile City in the misty rain. I saw busy traffic outside the market and crowds of people inside the market. Buyers were walking around, carefully selecting their favorite products in the rows of sales departments. Business operators were busy attracting customers, organizing sample fabrics, and arranging color cards.
In a store called “Alicia Home Textiles”, the boss Lu Changming is introducing his new fabrics to merchants. His son Lu Wenguang communicated with merchants in Egypt about a fabric order via email and WeChat.
Lu Changming, 58, was one of the first business owners to settle in China Textile City. He has witnessed Keqiao’s leap-forward development from “Fabric Cloth Market on the Water” to “International Textile City”.
In the 1980s, the tide of reform and opening up surged. In December 1983, the State Council decided to cancel cloth stamps and open up the supply of textiles. The government of Shaoxing County (now Keqiao District), Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province is keenly aware that the spring for the development of the textile industry is coming.
The local government quickly made a decision and took the lead in developing the township light textile industry with textile, printing and dyeing as the main body in the country. Subsequently, a group of cloth sellers wearing black felt hats and hand-operated awning boats began to sell locally produced cloth along the river, spontaneously forming a lively “cloth market on the water”. Soon after, cloth dealers known as “Small Boat Accounts” threw their oars ashore and set up stalls to sell cloth on the narrow streets near the river. The “Water Cloth Market” has since developed into a “Riverside Cloth Street”.
In 1985, “Riverside Street” became increasingly prosperous, but it also revealed problems of disorganization. The local government took advantage of the situation and built the shack-style “Keqiao Textile Products Market” covering an area of 3,500 square meters, promoting the transformation of the spontaneous market into a large-scale trade market. By 1988, the multi-functional, closed “Shaoxing Textile Market” was built, which was also the country’s first professional market for indoor textile products.
In the early 1990s, Shaoxing’s light textile market acceleratedIn July 2022, Zhejiang Modern Textile Technology Innovation Center (Jianhu Laboratory) was established in Keqiao. At present, the center has hired 6 domestic and foreign academicians, gathered 4 scientific research institutes, 20 innovation teams and more than 100 innovativetalents to conduct research on high-performance fiber composites. Materials, heat-resistant high-strength PBO fiber, implantable medical textile materials and other more than 20 key core technologies are being researched in depth.
Hemp is one of the oldest fabrics in the world, but it has not been widely used due to its natural roughness. To break this mindset, Zhejiang Jimaliangsi Textile Technology Co., Ltd. turned to the research and development of hemp products in 2016, investing more than 80 million yuan and establishing two academician workstations. It took 6 years to develop a hemp product that feels as delicate and soft as cotton. Hemp fabrics have obtained 15 invention patents.
“If you want to maintain an advantage in the fierce market competition, you must make something with technical content.” said Ji Guomiao, chairman of Zhejiang Jimaliangsi Textile Technology Co., Ltd.
From silk to cloth, the skills that have been inherited for thousands of years have been continuously improved, and the innovative spirit of Keqiao textile people has never changed. With the support of innovative elements such as technology, management, and design, the textile industry, which was originally regarded as a “traditional industry” by many people, continues to “break through” and “break out of the circle” in Keqiao.
In the early 1990s, Shaoxing County (now Keqiao District) took the lead in implementing “shuttleless technological transformation” and “dying and finishing revolution”, promoting textile enterprises to carry out technological transformation and New productdevelopment to improve market competitiveness.
In recent years, in the face of complex and severe international and domestic situations and increasingly fierce market competition, Keqiao’s textile industry has become more urgent in its need for innovation. In order to help the industry stabilize and improve quality, based on the traditional industrial foundation and development advantages, Keqiao relies on various textile innovation service institutions and platforms to promote the integration of government, industry, academia and research, accelerate the application and promotion of results, empower technological innovation services, and contribute to the development of the textile industry. Continuously empowering.
By integrating the resources of scientific research institutes and advantageous enterprises in the textile field, Keqiao has now gathered 21 textile innovation service institutions, including Zhejiang Modern Textile Technology Innovation Center (Jianhu Laboratory) and Modern Textile Industry Innovation Service Complex and other high-energy platforms, to work together to solve the “stuck neck” problem in the development of the textile industry and create a first-class source of R&D and innovation in modern textile technology in China. Among them, the Zhejiang Province Modern Textile Industry Innovation Service Complex has formed a 10-minute modern textile innovation belt along Jinkeqiao Avenue in Keqiao District, and has transformed more than 70 scientific and technological achievements.
“Cooperating with scientific research institutions at your doorstep is standing on the shoulders of giants to engage in research and development, which is convenient and efficient.” Speaking of the cooperation with Shaoxing Keqiao Research Institute of Zhejiang Science and Technology University, Shaoxing XimeiNew Materials Technology Co., Ltd. General Manager Miao Guohua was deeply touched. In recent years, the company has cooperated with the research institute to jointly develop new high-content fine-denier copper-nickel antibacterial fiber materials. After hard work, this new material has now entered the industrialization stage and will become a new profit growth point for the company.
The development of fashion and creative industries is an important starting point for Keqiao to cultivate new economic growth points and enhance the value chain of the textile industry. In recent years, Keqiao has focused on important activities and innovative initiatives such as Fashion Week, “Everyday Fashion”, “Keqiao Selection” and “Jingwei Plan” to improve the value chain of the fashion creative industry and build a fashion creative industry ecosystem. The annual creative design output value has exceeded 300 million. Yuan.
The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China emphasized that innovation plays a central role in the overall modernization drive of our country. For the textile industry, the alternation of new and old development momentum, the interweaving of virtual and real development space, and the blending of interests and benefits of the development environment have made innovation the first driving force leading the development of the industry.
Keqiao’s practice has proven that innovation is the “golden key” for industrial development to remain “young” and lead to the future. Only by adhering to the innovation-driven development strategy, building an industrial innovation platform, increasing investment in R&D resources, accelerating the training of scientific and technological talents, and driving textile enterprises to improve their independent innovation capabilities can the XPCC achieve high-quality and sustainable development of the textile industry and help the XPCC continue to grow its comprehensive strength. Play a greater role in building a beautiful Xinjiang and achieving the overall goal of Xinjiang work.
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