China's Textile Industry Base City

  At a recent meeting of the national textile industry development and industry cluster work meeting, Taicang City, Jiangsu Province, China Textile Industry Association has been awarded China’s textile industry base cities (counties) title. Taicang City, Jiangsu Province is located in the southeast side of the south bank of the Yangtze River, the East pillow Yangtze River, south relies Shanghai, Suzhou, west connected to the Yangtze River economic belt and the coastal open with a pearl on the interchange. 823 square kilometers, of which an area of 649 square kilometers land area, jurisdiction over 7 towns, household population of 450,000. Spring and Autumn Period Taicang because the king named in setting up granary, known as «the beautiful southern Gold Taicang,» in the world. Taicang has a long history and cultural heritage is very deep. Taicang Port ancient times known as Liu Jia in Hong Kong, was once the East port, Yuan, Ming Dynasty, known as the «six Pier», «best in the world Pier», a famous Ming Dynasty navigator Zheng He sailed the anchor here, seven ocean voyages. Since reform and opening, Taicang rapid economic development, as early as the late 80s were the first to achieve well-off. In 2002 the city’s 18.1 billion gross domestic product, fiscal revenue 1.58 billion; completed industrial output value 36.5 billion, sales income of 33.0 billion, profits of 3.16 billion yuan; total exports of 934 million U.S. dollars; 2003 urban and rural residents, per capita income of farmers respectively, 12,194 yuan and 6184 yuan. Textile industry is the leading industrial economy Taicang industry, its structure a reasonable and complete. There are cotton, wool spinning, knitting, garments, chemical fiber, printing and dyeing, craft shoes, carpets, etc., involving a variety of areas of very extensive. The city has a 1002 textile enterprises, of which 270 enterprises above designated size, ultra-billion enterprise 15, Ultra 500 million yuan enterprises 5. The number 54000 practitioners, technical staff accounted for 7.8%. In 2002 industrial output value 12.77 billion yuan, sales income of 11.66 billion yuan, total profit of 607 million yuan, with total assets of 11.09 billion yuan and exports worth 706 million yuan, accounting for 35% of the city’s industrial total, 36%, 38% of the , 32% and 22%. 136.8 thousand tons annual production of yarn, all kinds of garments 120 million (sets), ROR 400 thousand tons, 481.6 million meters cloth. Carpet 7.2 million square meters, 410,000 cars forming carpets; 52.22 million pairs of shoes, all kinds of craft. A group of product brand loud, there are well-known national brands Yalu; Province, famous lion, large warehouses, love Yingjie, the United States too, etc.; the city’s more than 30% equipment, 90 years reached the international advanced level. Textile Industry Park, an area of the city’s 25 square kilometers, has formed three plates two distinctive features. Three plates: one plate Shaxi textiles, with the size of more than 400 textile mills; second huangjing textile blocks, with 400 plus shells enterprises, clothing, knitting 63; third pontoon bridge apparel shirt plate, with textile printing and dyeing 168 garment enterprises. Two special features: one owned by village Xiang Tong slippers; second chengxiangzhen vehicle molding carpet. Taicang City, the textile industry as the city’s industrial-led industrial development. Will focus on: accelerating the pace of high technology to transform textiles and clothing, increased automation and intelligent level, focus on the development of new fabrics, focusing on the development of designer clothes, high-density, super-wide, anti-wrinkle, shrink-proof fabrics, worsted wool fabric, differentiated fibers, industrial fabrics, decorative fabrics, bedding and so on. Four main implementation strategies. First, brand management strategy. Second, strategies for industrial upgrading. After 3 ~ 5 years of hard work, forming fabrics, chemical fiber, industrial textiles, clothing four series. The construction of several large export-oriented enterprises; open up a good number of sales of supermarkets; to develop a large area of knitted garment production. The third is to support small, medium and large enterprise group strategy. Fourth, government and enterprises join hands together compartmentalization strategy.