Du Yuzhou: Rising Industrial Cluster Economy

At the November 22nd national textile industrial cluster working conference, Du Yuzhou, President of the China Textile Industry Association, said.

In fact, since the reform and opening up, China's textile and garment industry has developed rapidly. Among them, the textile industrial cluster area mainly composed of city (county) and town regional economy has become an important part of China's textile and garment industry because of its vigorous economic vitality.

Since 2002, the China Textile Industry Association has carried out

Today, the pilot textile cluster area has developed from the initial 38 counties to 175 cities and counties now. There are 180 thousand enterprises and about 8000000 employees, and its textile economy has accounted for more than 40% of the total textile economy in the country.

Rising industrial cluster economy

At present, on the whole, the national textile and garment industry cluster is mainly concentrated in the economically developed coastal areas in the eastern part of China, mainly in the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta, the Haixi region and the Bohai rim Delta, especially in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Shandong and Guangdong provinces, five provinces.

However, it is noteworthy that in recent years, with the development of the central and Western economies, the textile and garment industry began to gradually shift to the central and western regions in a planned way, and began to form some relatively concentrated industries in the Midwest.

But overall, the five provinces of Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shandong and Fujian will still occupy a dominant position in our clothing production for a long time to come. In the short term, there will be no bigger changes in the production pattern of the garment industry.

According to China Textile Industry Association's participation in the 142 clusters of statistics, enterprises in 2009 total 150 thousand and 400 households, an increase of 36 thousand and 900 compared to 2005, an increase of 32.5%.

Among them, enterprises above designated size increased by 7 thousand and 500, an increase of 63.8%.

8 million 4 thousand and 700 employees, an increase of 2 million 252 thousand and 400 over 2005.