Create An Upgraded Version Of "East Spinning And West Moving" Guangxi Guigang Cultivates Textile And Clothing Industry Clusters Worth 100 Billion Yuan

"The textile and clothing industry in Guigang, Guangxi, has a good foundation and great development potential. Myanmar is a major exporter of textiles and clothing. Guigang can use its own advantages to strengthen cooperation with Myanmar. Whether it is cultural exchanges or technical cooperation, there is a lot of space for cooperation between the two sides." Zhang Chong, president of Myanmar Golden Phoenix News, said after visiting China (Guigang) Textile and Clothing Fashion New Area on the 26th.

The interview activity of "2023 Foreign Media Look at Guangxi" jointly sponsored by the Publicity Department of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Guangxi Branch of China News Agency is being held. Nearly 30 mainstream media and Chinese media representatives from ASEAN countries visited the China (Guigang) Textile Fashion New Area on the same day.

Now is the peak time of wool fabric shipment. In Nolan Garments Co., Ltd. located in Pingnan County, Guigang City, Guangxi, a white wool loom was busy, and workers were skilled in operating various machines in their respective posts. "Eighty percent of our products are exported to the European market, and orders have been filled this year," said Li Zhen, deputy general manager of Guigang Nolan Clothing Co., Ltd.

Guigang Nolan Clothing Co., Ltd., invested and constructed by Dongguan Oujiate Clothing Co., Ltd., Guangdong Province, was established in September 2019 and officially put into production in October 2022. "We mainly produce various knitted garments for women, with a monthly production of 250000 to 300000 pieces of clothing. This year's export is expected to reach 3 million pieces, with an output value of 150 million yuan (RMB, the same below)." Li Zhen said.

China (Guigang) Textile and Clothing Fashion New Area (hereinafter referred to as "Fashion New Area"), where Guigang Nolan Clothing Co., Ltd. is located, has a total area of 60.58 square kilometers, and is one of the largest textile and clothing industry chain bases in China. The Fashion New Area mainly includes "one core and six parks", namely the core area of Zhenlong Headquarters, Dacheng Green Ecological Park, Wulin Intelligent Manufacturing Park, Da'an Tooling Custom Park, Linjiang Brand Innovation Park, Daxin Quality Children's Wear Park and Mule Leisure Sports Park, forming a one-stop production line of printing and dyeing, ironing sweaters and accessories market.

The core and main parks of the Fashion New Area are located in Pingnan County. Pingnan County, located in the center of the Pearl River Xijiang Economic Belt, has the unique location advantage of undertaking the industrial transfer of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and realizing Guangdong Guangxi textile supply chain coordination. At the same time, it is rich in land resources and labor.

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. "Most of the enterprises in the Fashion New Area are transferred from the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area. Many enterprises that have been put into operation in succession do not transfer the outdated equipment and processes in the Greater Bay Area to Pingnan, but realize technological upgrading and process upgrading in the process of relocation. Industrial transfer is also an industrial upgrading." According to He Zhongwu, director of Pingnan County Textile and Clothing Industry Development Center.

Phase I of Zhongjian Sports Leisure Intelligent Factory Project located in the Fashion New Area was completed for trial production in September this year. "Our entire project refers to the industry leading automation, digital and intelligent investment and construction. At present, 10 garment hanging production lines have been installed. After putting into production, the planned annual output value is 250 million yuan, and the annual sales are expected to exceed 200 million yuan." Zhou Wen, general manager of Guangxi Zhongjian Sports Leisure Clothing Co., Ltd. said.

"With green functional dyeing and finishing as the traction, high-tech textile fabrics as the support, and fashion high-end clothing manufacturing as the focus, the Fashion New Area vigorously develops the textile and clothing fashion industry of the whole industrial chain, focuses on creating a modern high-end textile and clothing innovation cluster, docking Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao to undertake industrial transfer green demonstration area, and facing the ASEAN international corridor development pilot area." He Zhongwu introduced, At present, the park has introduced 259 enterprises, such as Shifang Investment Group and Guannan Investment Group, with an investment of about 34.5 billion yuan. More than 100 enterprises have started construction, 47 have been completed and put into operation, 53 are under construction, and 7 have been incorporated into the system. The development of industrial agglomeration has begun to take shape.

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 and wool weaving equipment manufacturing enterprises from Dongguan, Guangzhou, Wenzhou, Kunshan and other places have settled in Pingnan County. "Guangxi is the front position connecting the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area and ASEAN. It has great advantages in industrial undertaking and production capacity gathering. The prospect of developing the textile and clothing industry is promising," Zhou Jianhua said.

The textile and clothing industry is China's traditional pillar industry, an important livelihood industry and an industry that creates new international advantages. In recent years, Guigang has seized the great opportunity of the construction of Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area rising to the national strategy, industrial transfer in the east and the city's listing as a key city in the Pinglu Canal Economic Belt, proposed to build the textile and clothing industry into an industrial cluster worth 100 billion yuan, actively promote the transformation, upgrading and sound development of the textile and clothing industry, and a new textile and clothing city is rising.

According to the official introduction of Guigang City, at present, the city is making every effort to build three textile and clothing industry clusters, namely, the new fashion district, the Mule leisure sports clothing production base, and the Gangnan Qiaoxu down industry base. Among them, the leisure sports clothing production base in Mule Town, Guiping City has more than 500 textile and clothing enterprises, with an annual output of more than 300 million sets of sports clothing, becoming the largest leisure sports clothing production base in Guangxi; There are more than 150 feather processing enterprises in Gangnan Down Industry Base, with an annual output of 67000 tons of feather flakes and 15000 tons of down, accounting for 28% of the total feather and down processing in China. It is one of the three largest feather and down processing bases in China.

In recent years, the Maritime Silk Road Textile and Garment Fashion Conference, the 15th Global Textile and Garment Supply Chain Conference, etc. have been held in Guigang, further expanding the "circle of friends" of Guigang, and injecting new momentum and vitality into accelerating the construction of the regional industrial chain supply chain. (End)