Industrial Cluster: Kashgar Region Creates 10 Billion Level Cotton, Textile And Clothing

In recent years, Kashgar has actively built 10 billion level industrial clusters of cotton, textile and clothing in combination with the characteristics of the cotton industry, and actively promoted the comprehensive development of rural industry revitalization and talent revitalization based on the development of industries.

Kashgar actively adjusts its industrial structure, guides cotton to gather in advantageous production areas, actively builds a 5.5 million mu national high-quality cotton base, and ensures an annual output of 720000 tons of high-quality cotton.

This year, the agricultural and rural departments in Kashgar actively docked with the expert teams of the Cotton Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the Economic Crops Research Institute of the Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and implemented the expert project of the modern agricultural industrial technology system in the autonomous region. Based on the development needs of the cotton industry in Kashgar, the expert team gives full play to the technical advantages of cotton genetics, breeding and cultivation physiology, and strives to cultivate new varieties with stress resistance, high quality and high yield suitable for popularization in Kashgar, focusing on solving the harm of cotton verticillium wilt and improving the drought and salt tolerance of cotton, using molecular biological techniques to create new germplasm materials, and cultivate widely applicable New cotton varieties with high quality and yield lay a good foundation for the sustainable development of cotton industry in Kashgar.

A textile company in Kashgar settled in Bachu Industrial Park of Kashgar Economic Development Zone in March 2022. It is a production, manufacturing and sales enterprise specialized in high value-added fashionable cotton textiles. The company plans to invest 2 billion yuan to implement the 450000 spindle spinning project in three phases. The investment in the first phase of the project is 750 million yuan. The scale is 174000 spindle ring spinning, with an output value of more than 1 billion yuan, which can provide 600 jobs. At present, all of them have been put into production. At present, the company is speeding up the implementation of the second phase 174000 spindle ring spinning project, and the second phase plant is planned to be fully put into production in December to achieve efficiency.

Kashgar has realized the development of the whole industrial chain from cotton seed cultivation, modern planting, primary processing, spinning, weaving, printing and dyeing, clothing, home textile, trade and productive services, and the industrial scale, employment absorption, and contribution rate to the industrial economy have been continuously improved. There are 216 textile and clothing enterprises in the whole region, and the spinning scale has expanded from 800000 to 3.8 million (including those under construction); The number of looms has increased from 1086 to 2387, forming an industrial development pattern with Bachu County as the "leader", Kashi Economic Development Zone and Shache County as the "two wings", and Maigaiti County, Yuepuhu County and Jiashi County as the fulcrum. Kashgar will be based on the advantage of planting 5.5 million mu of high-quality cotton annually, and realize the development of the whole industrial chain of textile and clothing by extending the chain to supplement and strengthen the chain.