The 4th Chaoshan International Textile and Garment Expo (hereinafter referred to as “Chaoshan Garment Expo”) was held at the Shantou International Convention and Exhibition Center. Focusing on building a textile and garment industry highland with global influence, the “New Four Major Projects” of Shantou’s textile and garment industry were released at the conference, and the goal of benchmarking “domestic leading and world-class”, vigorously implementing the new “Four Major Projects”, and building “Dual Bases and Dual Centers” was proposed.
The textile and garment industry is the most distinctive and advantageous pillar industry in Shantou. In recent years, Shantou has anchored the goal of “building an industrial cluster of more than 200 billion yuan” and planned to build the “Four Major Projects” of the textile and garment industry, including the global textile procurement center, the intelligent textile industrial park, the international convention and exhibition center, and the industrial headquarters building, to promote the extension of the industrial chain to the upstream and downstream and the expansion of the value chain to the middle and high-end.
Weng Chuangjie, president of the Shantou Textile and Garment Industry Association, said that in just three years, the “Four Major Projects” have all been implemented. Shantou’s textile and garment industry has achieved a transformation from “loose” to “grouping” and from “agglomeration” to “clustering”, which fully reflects the strong vitality of the new development model of “government guidance + association coordination + market drive”.
According to reports, the new “four major projects” released are the new quality fabric manufacturing base, the international textile digital trade base, the intelligent cloud warehouse center, and the talent integration center, aiming to enhance the superposition effect of “origin + gathering place, inventory + growth, production capacity + technology”, forming a closed loop from fabric research and development to brand sales, expanding scale, improving quality, expanding channels, and strengthening ecology.
Wen Zhanbin, secretary of the Shantou Municipal Party Committee, said that Shantou is unswervingly following the path of “building a city on industry and strengthening the city through industry”, promoting industry through trade, promoting trade through industry, and promoting industry and commerce simultaneously, insisting on both the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries and the cultivation and expansion of emerging industries, and promoting the traditional industry of textiles and clothing to become the main battlefield for cultivating new quality productivity and promoting high-quality development.
Shantou has devoted itself to forging “a chain” and realized the world’s most complete industrial chain within a 50-kilometer radius, from a drop of crude oil to a yarn and then to a ready-made garment; it has carefully created “a conference” to sound the strongest note for the development of the global intimate apparel industry; and it has carefully built “a city” to become a global textile and garment industry hub integrating technology research and development, production and manufacturing, product exhibitions and sales, and smart cloud warehouses.