Apparel / Textiles & Accessories

Zhou Shizhi, Deputy Mayor of Guigang City, Guangxi and Secretary of the CPC Pingnan County Party Committee, introduced on the 20th that Pingnan County is actively building a modern high-end textile and clothing innovation cluster that radiates ASEAN. The textile and clothing industry has risen rapidly and has attracted 244 enterprises to settle in China (Guigang) Textiles. The new clothing and fashion zone has a total investment of 31 billion yuan (RMB, the same below).

u3000u3000 From November 18th to 22nd, the 2021 Maritime Silk Road Textile and Apparel Fashion Conference was held in Pingnan County. Through holding fashion summits, investment negotiations, fashion exhibitions and other activities, the conference drove global fashion resources and industries to pay attention to the development of China's textile and apparel industry and China's (Guigang) new textile and apparel fashion district, and create an influential and creative area along the “Belt and Road”. An international fashion textile exchange platform.

u3000u3000 The textile and garment industry is a traditional pillar industry in China, an important civilian production industry, and an industry that creates new international advantages. According to the China Home Textile Industry Association, from January to July 2021, China's textile industry has maintained steady growth as a whole, and ASEAN has become China's second largest export market for textile products.

u3000u3000As the only province in China that is connected to ASEAN by land and sea, Guangxi is building a textile and garment industry chain with the help of its location advantage adjacent to ASEAN. The core and main parks of China (Guigang) New Textile and Apparel Fashion Zone are located in Pingnan County, with a total area of 60.58 square kilometers. It is one of the largest textile and apparel industry chain bases in China, and 108 projects have started construction.

u3000u3000 Wannan Group President Zhou Jianhua has been engaged in the wool weaving industry for more than 20 years. Driven by him, more than 100 textile, garment, finishing and dyeing and wool weaving equipment manufacturing companies from Dongguan, Guangzhou, Wenzhou, Kunshan and other places have settled in Pingnan County. "Guangxi is the frontier for connecting the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and ASEAN. It has great advantages in industrial undertaking and production capacity aggregation, and the development of the textile and garment industry has a promising prospect." He said.

It is reported that Guangxi’s silkworm cocoon and mulberry silk production accounted for more than 50% and 30% of China’s total respectively, and raw silk exports accounted for 50% of China’s total. Currently, Guangxi has 5 national textile and garment industrial bases and nearly 300 textile and garment enterprises above designated size. Production enterprises and more than 7000 trading enterprises.

u3000u3000 Currently, Guangxi is concentrating on building China (Guigang) Textile and Apparel Fashion New District, Yulin (Fumian) Ecological Textile and Apparel Industrial Park, Fangchenggang Dongxing Cross-border Economic Cooperation Zone Textile and Apparel Industrial Park, etc.