Build A Modern High-End Textile And Clothing Cluster Radiating ASEAN With The Help Of Eastern Industries Transferring To Pingnan, Guangxi

At the first meeting of the 14th People's Congress of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Yang Dadong, a deputy to the Guangxi People's Congress and the head of Pingnan County, Guigang City, said in an interview with chinanews.com that the local government should seize the favorable opportunity of industrial transfer in the east and strive to build a modern high-end textile and clothing innovation cluster that radiates to ASEAN, Build the textile and clothing industry into an industrial cluster worth 100 billion yuan.

The textile and clothing industry is China's traditional pillar industry, an important livelihood industry and an industry that creates new international advantages. Pingnan County, located in the southeast of Guangxi, is in the center of the Pearl River Xijiang Economic Belt. It has the unique location advantage of undertaking the industrial transfer of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and realizing the coordination of Guangdong Guangxi textile supply chain. At the same time, it is rich in land resources and labor.

It is reported that Pingnan County actively guides eastern enterprises to achieve win-win cooperation in creating an upgraded version of "East to West" through technology upgrading, equipment upgrading and process upgrading. Since 2019, the county has introduced two famous textile and clothing enterprises, Shifang Group with an investment of 12 billion yuan (RMB, the same below) and Guannan Group with an investment of 3 billion yuan, and driven more than 250 upstream and downstream enterprises to settle down. Pingnan County's textile and clothing industry cluster has begun to take shape.

Pingnan County proposes to strive to achieve the goal of 150 billion yuan of total output value of textile and clothing industry in about 10 years, and build the China (Guigang) Textile and Clothing Fashion New Area (referred to as the Fashion New Area), whose core and main parks are located in Pingnan County, into a modern high-end textile and clothing innovation cluster The green demonstration zone for Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao to undertake industrial transfer and the pilot zone for the development of the ASEAN international corridor are connected.

Yang Dadong introduced that at present, the Fashion New Area has signed 255 enterprises, with a total investment of 34 billion yuan. After completion, the expected annual output value can reach 68 billion yuan, the annual tax revenue is more than 2.4 billion yuan, and the number of workers is about 50000. The Fashion New Area was awarded the title of "National Textile Industry Transfer Pilot Park" and "Guangxi Light Industry Park (production of knitted fabrics and sportswear)". In November 2022, the 15th Global Textile and Clothing Supply Chain Conference will be held in Pingnan County.

Zhou Jianhua, President of Guannan Group, has been engaged in the wool weaving industry for more than 20 years. Driven by him, more than 100 textile, clothing, dyeing and finishing, wool weaving equipment manufacturing enterprises from Dongguan, Guangzhou, Wenzhou, Kunshan and other places have settled in Pingnan County. In an interview with chinanews. com, he said that Guangxi is a forward position for docking with the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area and ASEAN, and has great advantages in industrial undertaking and capacity gathering. The prospect of developing the textile and clothing industry is promising.

Yang Dadong said that this year, Pingnan County will continue to strengthen its leading industry, strive to list the Fashion New Area as an autonomous region level key industrial park and Guangdong Guangxi cooperation demonstration park, and promote the construction of the China Textile (Pingnan) Industrial Park project to settle in Pingnan as soon as possible and start construction, so as to further enhance the cohesion and influence of the textile and clothing industry.

Guangxi is an important silkworm cocoon and silk production base in China, forming the largest garment production base in southwest China and one of the four down processing bases in China. At present, Guangxi is building a cross-border industrial chain supply chain of Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area - Beibu Gulf Economic Zone - ASEAN by virtue of its geographical advantages adjacent to ASEAN.