The 7Th World Cloth Merchants Conference Jointly Draws A Beautiful Blueprint Of The Global Textile Industry

The trend of the times is surging forward, and the global textile industry shares a common destiny. In the great river of global textile industry, Shaoxing Keqiao, a "city supported on cloth", is like a wave surging on the tide, or a giant ship riding the wind and waves, melting the world and embracing the future. This year is a crucial year for Keqiao to strive to build a modern "international textile city" and comprehensively build "five centers". Standing at a new historical node, "Keqiao Textile" will embark on a new journey again.

It is the beautiful scenery of Jianhu Lake that makes you meet again in Guixiang season. From October 23 to 26, a series of feast related to the high-quality development of the global textile industry will be held in Keqiao, Shaoxing. The 2024 7th World Cloth Merchant Conference will be held at the same time as the 2024 WGSN Fashion Future Conference, the 26th China Shaoxing Keqiao International Textile Expo (autumn), and the 2024 Keqiao Fashion Week (autumn). Elite representatives of the global textile industry will gather in Keqiao, and go to the World Cloth Merchant Conference for a seven-year appointment to draw a beautiful blueprint for the opening, cooperation, and harmonious development of the global textile industry.

With the theme of "fashion realm and new quality future", the 7th Cloth Merchants Conference will discuss the importance and key path of building a development community, innovation community and responsibility community for the global textile industry enabled by new quality productivity from multiple dimensions such as scientific and technological innovation, fashion empowerment, green development, and open cooperation, and look forward to mutual benefit and win-win A new future of interconnection and symbiosis.

The influence leaps up, and continues to lead in changing and unchanging

In 2018, at the first World Cloth Merchant Conference, Keqiao released the action plan of "Silk Road Keqiao is all over the world" to the world, and confirmed that the conference will be permanently located in Keqiao, Shaoxing, opening a new chapter in the opening, cooperation and win-win development of the global textile industry. Today, the World Cloth Merchants Conference has been successfully held for six times, which is a vivid epitome of Keqiao Textile's continuous expansion and opening up in the new era, and an important witness to the sharing of development opportunities and the realization of mutual benefit and win-win results in the global textile industry.

The First World Cloth Merchant Conference

Keqiao has changed in the past six years. Ranking in the top ten of the list of top 100 regions in terms of comprehensive strength; The total turnover of the textile city exceeded 360 billion yuan (2023); The annual output value of the large textile industry in Keqiao District has reached 127 billion yuan, accounting for about 1/3 of the country's production capacity. "Keqiao Textile" has become the first textile regional brand worth more than 100 billion yuan in China... By building an international stage, the World Cloth Merchants Conference has helped Keqiao Textile continuously improve its international influence and fashion discourse, and continue to expand its "dialogue" with the world. The annual World Cloth Merchants Conference is like a rain catcher for the textile industry, which gathers all the rain from the development of the global textile industry in a year and injects vigorous momentum into the development of Keqiao Textile.

Keqiao has not changed in the past six years. Keqiao's original intention of promoting great development with great opening up has not changed, and its determination to meet great changes with great pattern has not changed. Over the past six years, Keqiao has deeply implemented the "August 8th Strategy", vigorously promoted innovation, deepened reform, tackled difficulties and improved opening up, focused on the goal of modernization of "international textile city", accelerated the construction of "three highlands" of market, industry and scientific innovation, and made every effort to build the world's largest textile distribution center, international textile exhibition center, modern textile scientific innovation center, textile fashion brand center Textile headquarters cluster center and other "five centers". Over the past six years, the World Cloth Merchants Conference has always been guided by the "Belt and Road" initiative, adhered to the purpose of "win-win cooperation and responsible development", and practically promoted international exchanges and cooperation in the textile industry with the principle of "mutual consultation, joint construction, and sharing". It has achieved fruitful results in enhancing industry consensus, deepening innovation linkage, promoting industrial development, and promoting openness and integration.

The 6th World Cloth Merchant Conference

As the permanent host of the World Cloth Merchants Conference, Keqiao is becoming a stronger city with more development hardness, a more open hub city, and a more innovative and dynamic city. Facing the world and the future, taking the opportunity of holding the World Cloth Merchant Conference at a high standard, Shaoxing Keqiao is fully complying with the new trend of international and domestic economic and trade development, actively adapting to the new trend of market distribution reform and industrial development in the digital era, and striving to build a model of high-quality development, high level opening, high-quality reform and construction in the textile field.

High standard preparation, let the world witness the power of Keqiao

As a grand event in the global textile industry, the preparations for the World Cloth Merchants Conference can be said to be the focus of attention. A few days ago, the relevant person in charge of the organizer of the conference said that preparations at all levels of the conference, including guest invitation, venue arrangement, environmental layout, hotel accommodation, visit and inspection, and security, were proceeding in an orderly manner. Keqiao would warmly welcome the arrival of global cloth merchants with a new look and let the world witness the power of Keqiao.

It is understood that the organizing committee of the preliminary conference has extensively contacted representatives of international institutions, industry associations, well-known brands and leading enterprises in more than 60 key countries and regions in the textile industry. At that time, relevant national ministries and commissions, international business, academia, industry elites, as well as domestic and foreign suppliers, purchasers, service providers, etc. will gather in Keqiao to participate in the grand event. The conference will be broadcast globally simultaneously in the mode of "online+offline" dual venues.

During this World Cloth Merchant Conference, not only WGSN Fashion Future Conference, 2024 Asian Color Conference and other international events were held at the same time, but also the local activities of Keqiao were also brilliant, showing the fruitful achievements of Keqiao Textile. The 26th China Shaoxing Keqiao International Textile Expo (autumn) will continue to adhere to the concept of "leading the global textile trend, demonstrating the charm of fashion technology, promoting industrial transformation and upgrading, and building a supply and demand trade platform", and actively build a good platform for trade communication, information exchange, and fashion promotion for both suppliers and buyers. 2024 Keqiao Fashion Week (Autumn) will take "quality" as the theme, and more than 30 fashion creative activities will be held in six sections of "brand conference, competition, fashion design exhibition, fashion lecture hall, theme flash, and international exchange day", to comprehensively demonstrate Keqiao's fashion charm, and further polish the golden card of China's "Fashion City".

As one of the most comprehensive, most participating and symbolic international conferences in China's textile industry, the World Cloth Merchants Conference attracts the attention of the world's textile industry every year. This conference will continue the high standard preparation, high level design, and high specification lineup, and will go all out to present a wonderful international textile event to the world with the greatest enthusiasm, the best service, and the strongest guarantee.

Expectation of Laman, Keqiao cloth merchants praise the conference

Each World Cloth Merchant Conference is an important driving force for the textile city Keqiao to integrate the world process, providing favorable conditions and a good platform for strengthening industrial consensus and close global cooperation. In this regard, perhaps Keqiao cloth merchants have more practical experience and voice. So, what does the World Cloth Merchants Conference bring and leave to Keqiao Textile Enterprises? What are the expectations of Keqiao cloth merchants for this conference?

2023 Global Famous Enterprise Roundtable

As an outstanding representative of Keqiao cloth merchants, Fu Guangyi, Chairman of Fantex Group Co., Ltd., is a special guest of each World Cloth Merchants Conference, and has made a voice for Keqiao textile industry in the round table conferences of global well-known enterprises for many times. "The successful holding of the sixth conference has further enhanced the overall popularity of Keqiao Textile, and this accumulation will benefit every enterprise to a certain extent. Through attending theme conferences and round tables over the years, I have not only gained a better understanding of the international situation and industry development trends, expanded my vision as a corporate leader, but also established contacts with more domestic and international large-scale enterprises in the post conference exchanges, helping Ventex better identify its own position and clarify the next planning direction of the enterprise, So as to integrate into the national trend and international trend. " Fu Guangyi said.

"The World Cloth Merchants Conference has built an international and high standard exchange platform, providing us with valuable opportunities to enhance understanding and deepen cooperation with many industry leaders and representatives of large enterprises. So I cherish every opportunity to attend the conference, thank the organizing committee for its hard work, and look forward to meeting more old and new friends during the conference." Said Xiao Xingshui, general manager of Shaoxing Qianyong Textile Co., Ltd. As a specialized, special and new small and medium-sized enterprise in Zhejiang Province, "Qianyong Textile" is a national research, development and production base for nylon (nylon) digital direct printing. It has appeared in the Paris Olympic Games, Hangzhou Asian Games, Beijing Winter Olympic Games and other top international events for many times. The holding of the World Cloth Merchant Conference undoubtedly provides a broader platform for the company to strengthen upstream and downstream cooperation and exchange, and helps enterprises grow rapidly.

Meet Keqiao and start a new chapter. From October 23 to 26, "Keqiao Time" will be opened again, gathering multiple forces for the development of new quality productive forces that are widely concerned by all parties at present, so that the textile industry can better benefit people around the world, and bring Keqiao textile's views on science and technology, fashion, and green to the world.