As the textile industry moves westward, how can Santai consolidate its roots?
On March 22, steam rose in the workshop of Santai County Jialian (Jiaxi) Printing and Dyeing Company, which was busy producing a special fabric with waterproof and flame-retardant properties.
“In the past, we were the only textile company in the surrounding area, but now there are more than 50, with upstream and downstream companies gathered in this park.” said Shi Minshan, deputy general manager of the company.
A week ago on March 15, the 2023 National Textile and Garment Industrial Park Work Conference was held in Santai County. At the meeting, the ChinaTextile Industry Federation identified 32 residential areas as the “National Textile and Garment Industrial Park Pilot (Demonstration)”. There are more parks in the central and western regions, with 25 parks from Sichuan, Xinjiang, Guangxi, Shaanxi, Hubei, Anhui, Jiangxi, and Yunnan. Among them, a total of three parks in Sichuan were shortlisted, namely Sichuan Pengzhou Industrial Development Zone, Sichuan Pingshan Economic Development Zone, and Sichuan Santai Industrial Park.
This is also consistent with the trend of the textile, footwear and apparel industry migrating from east to west in recent years. So how can Santai County seize this opportunity and make its textile industry bigger and better?
Businesses surged to 50+
The textile, footwear and clothing industry in Santai County is developing rapidly
Santai County is a county with a large population and a relatively weak industrial base. In 1993, the total output value of Santai County’s textile, footwear and clothing industry was only 35 million yuan. In 2022, this number will reach 6.26 billion yuan, with more than 50 companies.
In 30 years, almost from scratch, Santai County’s textile, footwear and clothing industry has quickly become a local pillar industry, accounting for 74% of the city’s total output value of the textile, footwear and clothing industry.
The foreign vehicles with “Fujian” license plates outside the conference venue and the business representatives speaking with accents from various places also demonstrate the diversification of Santai’s textile, footwear and apparel industry.
At the meeting, some experts mentioned that the average salary of workers in some coastal textile industrial parks exceeds 5,000 yuan, while in related parks in the west it is about more than 4,700 yuan. The difference of several hundred yuan has caused many people to return to their hometowns for employment. Combining this trend, Santai County has embarked on the road of becoming an industrial county based on its agricultural advantages and demographic dividends, among which the textile, footwear and clothing industry has developed the fastest.
At the meeting that day, this was also recognized by Zong Ruilong, deputy director of the Textile Division of the Department of Consumer Goods Industry of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. He believed that there are certain differences in the development of the east and west, which is not only an urgent problem to be solved, but also a great opportunity for the textile industry. Development creates strategic depth.
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The park has become a key carrier in industrial transfer
In terms of the current operation and management of industrial parks, most of the 32 parks are government-invested parks, and a small number are government-enterprise cooperation and independent investment and construction by enterprises. This reflects that the construction of textile and garment industrial parks has a strong government Dominance and regional leadership.
Taking Santai County as an example, in the process of building a professional park, Santai County established a special team to extend and strengthen the chain of the textile, footwear and clothing industry, focusing on Jialian (Jiaxi), Hongxing Erke, Hanbinlin, Yi Leading companies such as Le Textile focus on key areas such as the Yangtze River Delta and Fujian, and at the same time build a number of factories and parks suitable for the textile and garment industry as carriers.
“Santai County has formed a relatively complete textile, footwear and clothing industry chain including spinning, weaving, dyeing and finishing, garment making, shoemaking, and home textiles.” said Zhao Jintao, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Santai Industrial Park.
As a carrier of industrial development, park construction continues to accelerate. On the one hand, its industrial chain is long, and the concentration of related supporting links is conducive to overall development. At the same time, the textile, footwear and clothing industry has a greater demand for electricity and water, especially the printing and dyeing industry, which also puts greater pressure on environmental governance.
In 2022, the national retail sales of clothing, shoes, hats, needles and textiles by units above designated size will be 1.3003 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 6.5%. However, during the same period, the completed fixed asset investment in the national textile industry, chemical fiber industry, and clothing industry increased by 4.7%, 21.4%, and 25.3% respectively year-on-year. According to experts at the meeting, the park has become the main vehicle for investment.
Intelligent manufacturing
What is the next trend in the textile, footwear and apparel industry?
Will the price advantage of labor and other production factors also be an important reason for the relocation of labor-intensive industries such as the textile industry?
Another answer was given at the meeting that day: Intelligence.
Hanbinlin Shoes Co., Ltd., located in Santai County, uses intelligent computer sewing machines to accurately present various patterns required by customers with just “one-click confirmation”. Using a flexible vision-guided robot cold-gluing automatic forming line, this intelligent production line can produce 40,000 pairs of shoes per month.
Jialian (Jiaxi), which is busy replacing its new production line, will use the latest technology in this technical transformation to build a new factory for intelligent manufacturing and printing and dyeing. Through continuous technological innovation, the company’s annual output value has increased from less than 40 million yuan initially to exceeding 2.5 billion yuan in 2022.
Sichuan Anjina Sports Goods Co., Ltd. will invest 3 billion yuan in Santai County to build the province’s first smart clothing manufacturing digital industrial park. “Catching up with modern information technology intelligence”The development of manufacturing will further improve the quality and efficiency of industrial development. In the past, the textile industry was regarded as a traditional industry, but now it is defined as a dominant industry. “Zong Ruilong said, “We have a large enough and growing domestic demand market to provide a particularly large guarantee for the continued development of the textile industry and the development of parks and enterprises. ”
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