Zhejiang County Observation: How Can A Piece Of Cloth Hold Up A City?

Located in "the world's largest textile distribution center", China Light Textile City, with its comprehensive strength ranking eighth in the "National Top Ten District", its per capita GDP reaching 182000 yuan, and the number of large-scale private enterprises ranking first in Zhejiang Province... What is the secret of high-quality development of county economy in Keqiao District, Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, which is located on the south bank of Hangzhou Bay and known as "a city on a piece of cloth"?

On the evening of October 11, the 25th lecture of "China County Governance Lecture" was held in the Qiushi Lecture Hall of Zhejiang University. As the keynote speaker, Chen Hao, Secretary of the CPC Keqiao District Committee, shared the development path of a strong textile district to develop new quality productivity and build a modern "international textile city" according to local conditions.

Keqiao is famous all over the world for its water and bridges, people and culture. At present, there are more than 8000 local textile enterprises with an annual output value of 130 billion yuan, forming a whole textile industry chain running through the upstream, middle and downstream.

"The biggest feature of Keqiao is the China Light Textile City, and the biggest advantage is the modern textile industry." Chen Haoman is proud of this "golden signboard".

Admittedly, the textile industry is a typical industry with high energy consumption, high water consumption and high pollution, and Chen Hao has not avoided "growing pains" in sharing. He said frankly, "More than 80% of Keqiao's textile enterprises are processing enterprises, and their energy consumption intensity and carbon emission intensity are significantly higher than the provincial and municipal average, which also leads to greater pressure on our air governance and water environment governance."

Governance needs to be considered comprehensively. On the new journey towards Chinese style modernization, Keqiao positioned its strategic goal as the modern "international textile capital". "In order to make the modern 'International Textile City' bigger and stronger, we will develop new quality productivity according to local conditions, accelerate the in-depth integration of the industrial chain innovation chain, and build a modern industrial system." Chen Hao said.

In the face of the urgent requirements for the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, Keqiao started the project of gathering printing and dyeing enterprises in 2010, and completed the work of "cross regional integration" by 2022, reducing the number of printing and dyeing enterprises from 259 to 110, and increasing the average tax per mu of printing and dyeing enterprises from less than 80000 yuan before the gathering to 251000 yuan.

While promoting the development of textile clusters, Keqiao gives full play to the advantages of China's light textile city market and combines textile with fashion. For example, it has held 6 consecutive World Cloth Merchants Conferences and 25 international textile fairs, built platforms such as the Oriental Milan International Fashion Publishing Center and Sino Italian Future Fashion Museum. Now Keqiao has gathered 149 fashion institutions and hundreds of high-end designers.

Scientific and technological innovation is the "key variable" of developing new quality productivity according to local conditions, and also the "maximum increment" of high-quality development. Keqiao knows it well.

In the factory of "Yingfeng Science and Technology" in Keqiao, workers just need to move their fingers, and a roll of cloth is immediately sucked into the dye vat. Dye proportioning, punching, and discharging are automatically completed by the system command, basically realizing the automation of the whole process of printing and dyeing production.

Including the above enterprises, in recent years, Keqiao has actively explored the new path of "industrial brain+future factory". At present, it has completed the intelligent transformation of 848 enterprises above the designated size, and the proportion of advanced equipment has increased to more than 60%. The local government has also built a "brain for weaving, printing and dyeing industry", integrating more than 100 application scenarios, and now has access to more than 3000 enterprises, with the industrial production efficiency improved by more than 8%.

After being loaded with "black technology", pieces of cloth become green and fashionable. In this process, the traditional textile industry is rejuvenated and has entered a grand road of green and sustainable development.

Those who do not seek the overall situation cannot seek a single area. For Keqiao, the driving force of the modern "International Textile City" is not only cloth, but also the overall construction of a modern industrial system.

Chen Hao demonstrated to the audience the "133" pillar industry system laid out by Keqiao. "1" refers to the textile fashion industry, the first "3" refers to the three emerging industries of photoelectric information, medical health and new composite materials, and the second "3" refers to the three future industries of artificial intelligence, new energy and low altitude economy.

In order to enable industrial development, the local government has built a scientific innovation platform of "one corridor, two cores and three centers", including building a large corridor for scientific innovation in Hangzhou, giving full play to the platform advantages of Jinkeqiao Science and Technology City, Shaoxing Area of Hangzhou Shaoxing Airport Economic Integration Development Demonstration Zone, and improving Zhejiang Modern Textile Technology Innovation Center (Jianhu Laboratory).

In the blueprint of the modern "international textile city", people are the core force for modernization and the most surging power source for urban development. Behind the strong economic strength, Keqiao is also an open city that embraces all rivers. Youth and internationalization have become the characteristic advantages of development.

For example, Chen Hao said that in the past decade, the number of permanent residents in Keqiao District has increased at an average annual rate of nearly 12300. At present, the number of permanent residents registered by the local public security has reached 1.3 million. Among them, 570000 are permanent youth aged 14 to 35, accounting for more than 50%; More than half of the permanent population are Xinkeqiao people, and there are more than 5500 foreign businessmen.

It is the sincerity of local talent introduction to optimize the policy environment and services for talent development. For example, since 2016, Keqiao has repeatedly updated its talent policy. In June this year, the construction of "Keqiao City of Innovation" was fully launched. For talents who bring technology and projects to Keqiao for entrepreneurship, there are four "settling channels", namely competition, fund, platform and industry. The cumulative maximum support for a single project can reach 31 million yuan.

Relying on the advantages of internationalization, Keqiao has created the first innovation cluster of high-end foreign talents in Zhejiang Province. Through the mode of "introducing foreign talents", it has gathered 121 high-level foreign talents. Thomas, a young man from Holland, and his wife from Chongqing settled here. "Keqiao is an ideal combination of city and nature, which attracts me," Thomas once said.

It is famous for cloth and strong for cloth. The road of integrated development of industry, city and people explored by Keqiao is precisely the theoretical innovation, institutional innovation and practical innovation of promoting Chinese style modernization at the district and county level.

As one of the sponsors of the "China County Governance Lecture Hall", Chai Yanfei, Secretary of the Party Committee and President of the Zhejiang Branch of the China News Agency, said that since the opening of the "China County Governance Lecture Hall" in 2019, the leaders of the characteristic counties such as inter provincial border counties, mountain counties, and overseas Chinese villages have stepped on the platform to share the experience of county governance with young students. The current global economic situation is grim and complex. How to adapt to changes and achieve high-quality development in the "economic power zone" integrating China and foreign countries has attracted attention from all walks of life.

Chai Yanfei said that Keqiao District, as a typical representative of the "economically strong district", develops new quality productivity according to local conditions, fully exploits and utilizes the unlimited possibilities of "one cloth", revitalizes industries, science and technology, talents and other innovative resource elements, converts potential shortcomings into development opportunities, and converts existing advantages into competitive advantages, It has explored a new path of Chinese style modernized county practice.

Chen Baosheng, vice president of the Institute of Social Governance of Zhejiang University, said that the modernization development of counties tested the governance level of the main politicians. For districts and counties with strong economic strength, the significance of governance lies in high-quality development. Keqiao, based on the reality of modern textile industry, firmly grasped the advantages of industry, market, science and innovation, and took profound culture, favorable policies, etc. as the "bottom line" of development to promote high-quality development of county economy.

It is reported that the "China County Governance Lecture Hall" is guided by the Propaganda Department of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and hosted by the Zhejiang Branch of China News Agency and the Institute of Social Governance of Zhejiang University.

(Source: China News Network)