Keqiao District'S Modern Textile Industry Cluster Ranks Among The Top 100 In China

On May 20, the reporter learned that China Private Economy Research Association and other institutions recently jointly released the 2024 Research Report on China's Top 100 Private Economy Industrial Clusters, and Keqiao District's modern textile industrial cluster successfully ranked among the top 100 in China. The list takes more than 2000 private economic industrial clusters nationwide as the research object, sets six entry standards, and on this basis, carries out evaluation around 29 indicators in five dimensions, namely, innovation capability, agglomeration, green low-carbon, development potential, and openness. This inclusion in the list fully demonstrates the strong development toughness and huge development potential of Keqiao textile industry.

Textile industry is Keqiao's pillar industry and enriching people's industry. Keqiao District has always adhered to the goal of "truly building the light textile market and doing a good job in the transformation and upgrading of the textile industry", and constantly promoted the transformation and upgrading of the textile industry in the direction of internationalization, fashion, and digitalization. At present, it has formed three core advantages of "market+industry+scientific innovation", and achieved the quality and quantity improvement of the textile industry. Last year, "Keqiao Textile" became the first textile regional brand worth 100 billion yuan in China, and the modern textile and clothing cluster in the region achieved a revenue of 124.3 billion yuan.

Walking in China's textile city market, merchants come and go, and the fabrics are dazzling. You can feel the good trend of market prosperity and development everywhere. In recent years, Keqiao District has adhered to open development, fully played the role of market procurement trade and cross-border e-commerce as two open pilot projects, launched the city's first China EU train "Shaoxing Keqiao", and held international influential exhibitions such as the International Textile Federation Annual Conference, the World Cloth Merchant Conference, and the Textile Expo in a high standard. At present, China Light Textile City has become the world's largest professional textile market with the most complete categories of business. There are more than 37000 operators, including more than 16000 trading companies. Its sales network covers 210 countries and regions, ranking first in the national textile market for 33 consecutive years. The annual total turnover of China Light Textile City exceeds 360 billion yuan.

As a "city relying on cloth", Keqiao District has more than 8000 textile enterprises, including more than 900 above designated size textile enterprises, attracting more than 200000 employees, forming textile raw materials and materials covering the upstream, printing and dyeing, weaving, equipment in the midstream, clothing, home textile and furniture in the downstream, and creative fashion throughout the entire industry chain Service trade and other complete large textile industry chain. Especially in recent years, Keqiao District, in accordance with the goal of "green high-end, world leading", has vigorously promoted the printing and dyeing industry cluster upgrading project. At present, it has built the largest green printing and dyeing base in China, and the average tax per mu has increased from less than 80000 yuan before the cluster to 224000 yuan. In the past three years, the added value of unit energy consumption of printing and dyeing enterprises in the whole district has increased by 6.7% annually, and the average tax per unit energy consumption has increased by 11% annually, The printing and dyeing industry has achieved a leap from "overwhelming" to "indomitable".

Technological innovation is the fundamental driving force for the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries. In recent years, Keqiao District has built a large number of scientific and technological innovation platforms at a high level, including the Chinese Academy of Textile Technology, Academician's Home, Innovation Cluster for Foreign High end Talents, and Collaborative Innovation Center for Printing and Dyeing Industry Engineers. Among them, as one of the first six technological innovation centers in the province, the Provincial Modern Textile Technology Innovation Center has settled in 10 academician teams, with a total of 138 key scientific and technological projects, The transformation of scientific and technological achievements was further accelerated. At the same time, there are 255 textile enterprises in Keqiao District rated as national high-tech enterprises, 29 provincial-level high-tech enterprise research and development centers, more than 1800 enterprises in the district have access to the brain of the weaving, printing and dyeing industry, nearly 400 industrial enterprises above the designated size have implemented intelligent transformation, with advanced equipment accounting for more than 60%, and the technological innovation capacity continues to increase.

In the next stage, Keqiao District will continue to promote the "4131" action of a strong manufacturing area in depth, continue to deepen the transformation and upgrading of the modern textile industry, and strive to build "five centers" in the textile field and accelerate the promotion of "market+industry+science and innovation" by implementing "ten actions" such as market evolution, promoting clothing, modern logistics, fashion brands, and talent technology The three advantages are transformed into "three highlands", striving to create a new glory of the modern "international textile city".

(Source: Keqiao Daily)