Xianyang, Shaanxi: Transformation And Upgrading Of Traditional Industries Of Flying Shuttle Weaving Huazhang

With the development of the times, personalized customized clothing has become a new choice for more and more people. So, how many processes does it take to customize a suit?

In Shaanxi Xianyang Dukepu Garment Co., Ltd., the reporter found the answer. Customized suits have to go through more than 300 processes, such as body measurement, fabric selection, and style determination, before they "walk" off the production line.

In recent years, Xianyang has vigorously promoted the restructuring, transformation and upgrading of the textile and clothing industry, promoted textile enterprises to leave the city and enter parks, and cultivated well-known enterprises such as Xianyang Textile Group Co., Ltd., Shaanxi Xianyang Dukepu Garment Co., Ltd., and Shaanxi Ya'ai Industrial Group Co., Ltd.

In 2023, Xianyang's textile and clothing industry will achieve an output value of 4.473 billion yuan, up 4.6% year on year.

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The traditional industry is "reborn"

Xianyang's textile and garment industry has a long history of development. At one time, the employment of 20% of the population in Xianyang was closely related to the textile and clothing industry.

As a traditional manufacturing industry, Xianyang textile and garment industry has encountered problems such as unreasonable industrial structure, backward equipment, insufficient innovation ability, brain drain, etc.

How to give play to the industrial advantages and let the traditional industries burst into new vitality?

On February 18, the reporter saw in the production workshop of the first branch of Xianyang Textile Group Co., Ltd. that the spindles were spinning, rows of spinning machines were running at full speed, and women textile workers were skillfully operating the equipment.

"Our company has 300000 spindles, with an annual output of 23400 tons of yarn and 137 million meters of grey cloth." Fan Zhenhua, secretary of the Party Committee and chairman of Xianyang Textile Group Co., Ltd., said that at present, the company has a large number of independent brands such as "Windwheel", "Jinsong" and "Qinling", and has two "national new products" and a batch of "Shaanxi famous brand products", which are exported to foreign countries.

In 2011, Xianyang City started the project of textile enterprises returning from the city to enter the park, and planned a new textile industrial park in Xianyang City with an area of 10.83 square kilometers. Xianyang restructured some textile enterprises in the urban area, established Xianyang Textile Group Co., Ltd., upgraded textile equipment, and reduced the number of workers for 10000 spindles from 200 to 36.

Xianyang City has prepared the Development Plan of Xianyang Textile and Clothing Industry (2023-2030) and other documents, set up a special class for the development of textile and clothing industry, and made every effort to promote the textile and clothing industry to move forward towards the development direction of R&D, design, production, manufacturing, sales and other links, full process, and integrated high-quality development.

"The textile and clothing industry is one of the seven pillar industries in Xianyang. We actively build a platform and invite experts in relevant fields to 'check the pulse' of Xianyang's textile and clothing industry, solve the problems of enterprise development, and strengthen the confidence of enterprise development." Wang Huijuan, deputy director of Xianyang Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, said that up to now, Xianyang has 24 textile and clothing enterprises above designated size.

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Textile industry "smart" change and upgrading

In the exhibition hall of Shaanxi Xianyang Dukepu Garment Co., Ltd., customers can complete the automatic collection of 19 parts and 22 dimensions of the human body in 7 seconds through the application of digital "VR online measurement".

"We use the Internet and cloud data to transform traditional large-scale manufacturing into large-scale flexible personalized customization, which can achieve 'one person, one version, one style of clothing'." Tan Xuefeng, general manager of Shaanxi Xianyang Dukepu Garment Co., Ltd., said that the company began to transform the "race track" in 2017, and has now completed digital and intelligent upgrading. At present, the company has the only clothing big data center in northwest China, which can achieve efficient personalized design.

Shaanxi Xianyang Dukepu Garment Co., Ltd. has continuously achieved innovative development from the traditional garment factory to the current intelligent manufacturing factory. In 2023, the company will achieve an output value of 68.4 million yuan and a revenue of 65 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 21%.

"In the past, tailors were craftsmen, and I could cut up to 10 sets of clothes a day without learning this technology for three or five years." Speaking of the company's intelligent transformation, Lv Qiang, a cutting worker, would be filled with emotion. "Now, the company has an automatic cutting bed, and can cut a set of clothes in four minutes."

At the same time, in the workshop of Shaanxi Ya'ai Industrial Group Co., Ltd., workers are rushing to manufacture functional clothing such as petrochemical clothing in front of automatic sewing machines.

As a key enterprise in the textile and clothing industry chain of Xianyang, the company is a modern clothing production enterprise integrating R&D, design, production and sales, with an annual production capacity of 2 million sets.

"We adhere to the scientific and technological development idea of traditional industries, and continue to develop in accordance with the idea of experiment, research and development, and production." Kou Zengwen, general manager of Shaanxi Ya'ai Industrial Group Co., Ltd. and president of Shaanxi Garment Association, said that this year, the company plans to establish Shaanxi Garment Research Institute, and build a Han and Tang clothing experience base relying on the tourism resources of the Qianling Tomb, Do a good job in the development of aseptic series of Tang suits and Han suits.

Now, Xianyang City has implemented a series of measures to vigorously promote the digital transformation of clothing and home textile enterprises, help the traditional textile and clothing industry burst new vitality, and gradually get rid of the stereotype of "sunset industry".

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Multi integration cluster development

The reporter walked into Shaanxi Yinhua Textile Co., Ltd. located in the Qianxian Industrial Park. With the rhythmic sound of machine operation, cotton was made into cotton yarn products in the midst of turnover.

"The 400 tons of high-quality cotton yarn we produced last year has been sold out, and now we are rushing to make new orders." Zhang Junjie, deputy general manager of Shaanxi Yinhua Textile Co., Ltd., said that the company has a production line of about 71300 spindle cotton yarn, and the products are mainly sold to Guangdong, Jiangsu, Fujian, Zhejiang and other places. Last year, the company's output value reached 170 million yuan.

"We have decided to implement the technological transformation and production expansion project, and invest 200 million yuan to build a 50000 spindle intelligent cotton yarn production line." Zhang Junjie said that after the project is completed, it can produce 5000 tons of high-quality pure cotton yarn annually, increase the output value of 150 million yuan, and create 200 jobs.

Shi Hongyu, secretary of the Party Leadership Group and director of the Bureau of Industry and Information Technology of Qianxian County, introduced that "Qianxian County is constantly adjusting and optimizing its industrial structure, guiding and supporting Shaanxi Ya'er'ai Industrial Group Co., Ltd. to transform from the clothing industry to medical consumables, and Yihua Medical Materials Co., Ltd. to transform from medical cotton to medical cloth, and boosting enterprises to become bigger and stronger through technological transformation, mutual purchase and marketing and other measures."

Gather enterprises into "chains" and help "chains" form groups. In recent years, Xianyang City has continuously optimized the policy supply, established a standardized management system and modern enterprise operation mode, continued to strengthen the textile and clothing industry to supplement, strengthen and extend the chain, and built an industrial pattern with Xianyang Xinxing Textile Industrial Park, Qianxian Textile Industrial Park as the carrier, and cotton textile, functional clothing, and industrial textiles as the leading industries.

At present, Xianyang has gradually formed a characteristic industrial cluster of functional professional clothing, safety protective clothing, functional textiles, etc. In Xianyang High tech Zone, the industrial layout led by cotton textile and functional clothing has been constructed; In Qianxian County, a development pattern dominated by functional textiles, printing and dyeing, and industrial textiles has been formed.

"We will give full play to the advantages of Xianyang cotton distribution center, strengthen refined cotton textile, expand and optimize functional professional clothing, develop high-end printing and dyeing, cultivate regional characteristic clothing products, and promote the high-quality development of Xianyang textile and clothing industry." When talking about the future, Wang Huijuan is full of confidence.