Cluster development: Jiangsu moves from “the big textile province” to “the strong textile province”

The upcoming Jiangsu International Fashion Festival has set up a special exhibition area: the textile and clothing characteristic town exhibition area. Focus feature of the town behind the debut, more than a decade of Jiangsu textile industry cluster development insist on results.

From the history of the "sunrise 10,000, the clothing world," Chinese modern history to lead the textile industry today, Jiangsu Textile people along the way fruitful. The scale of Jiangsu textile industry has exceeded 1.5 trillion yuan for seven consecutive years since 2010. In the first half of this year, the textile industry in Jiangsu Province achieved a total industrial output value of 772.11 billion yuan, an increase of 8.6% year-on-year and a year-on-year increase of 12.5%.

Combing the development of textile and garment industry in Jiangsu Province We found that cluster development has become a distinctive feature. The Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government have long proposed to develop industrial clusters. Since 2002, the Jiangsu Textile Industry Association has carried out pilot projects for industrial clusters in the textile industry of the province. “Agglomeration development is a famous economic phenomenon in the process of economic development. Cluster work is an important work of industry associations and closely related to the development of the textile industry,” said Xie Ming, president of Jiangsu Textile Industry Association.

Cluster development, distinctive characteristics of Jiangsu clothing

Today's market competition has evolved from competition among individual companies to competition between industrial clusters with perfect industrial chains and value chains. The internal information sharing of the cluster has a fast response speed, and the channels of production, sales, logistics, and information are closely linked, and it is easy to form a joint force.

Over the years, Jiangsu Textile Industry Association has actively organized, coordinated and served. Through the solid work of various localities, it has organized 14 batches of industrial cluster pilot work and named more than 70 clusters. The effect of cluster development is very significant. Among them, there are four hundred billion-level bases in Changshu, Jiangyin, Wujiang and Hai'an. The industrial characteristics cover the spinning, weaving, dyeing, garment and other aspects, the industrial chain support tends to be complete, the professional division of labor and the degree of collaboration are effectively improved, and the “regional brand” is gradually formed, which has become an important support for the industry.

Entering a factory in Wujiang Shengze, the electronically controlled modern looms and a very small number of textile workers show a new look of the “wisdom era” textile town. Shengze has been a textile town since ancient times, passing through the historical corridor. Today, the town has more than 2,500 textile weaving enterprises, more than 130,000 shuttleless looms, with an annual output of more than 10 billion meters of various textiles. "national torch emerging textile fibers and fabrics industry base", "silk town of China", "Chinese textile town."

In 2015, the wool and cashmere coat industry became an important component of the Changshu “ 13th Five-Year ” garment industry plan for the 100 billion industrial base. As the country's textile industrial city of Changshu, China wool fabric supply base, with a collection of textile, weaving, dyeing, design, production, processing, distribution as one of complete industrial chain. This complete industrial chain structure from upstream to downstream brings unique advantages to Changshu's development of China's cashmere wool coat industry base. Today, wool and cashmere coats have become the backbone of the development of Changshu women's wear, "China cashmere wool coat production and wholesale base" "China cashmere products famous city", has become a resounding new business card in Changshu clothing industry.

"Competitiveness of industrial clusters from open up the downstream industry chain, both to promote industrial restructuring and upgrading and improving efficiency." Xie Ming, president admitted that "development is inseparable from supporting industries and garment industry cluster, the cluster the lower the cost, talents more concentration. by studying the top five global fashion capital, you can get an experience, just say goodbye to small and scattered development of the state, do industrial clusters and the whole industrial chain to the Association as a platform to integrate these garment enterprises, pushing alliance development in order to break them The dilemma of long-term development."

Featured towns, new highlights in the development of textile industry clusters

The characteristic town of textile and clothing is a new bright spot in the development of industrial clusters. President Xie Ming said that there are two standards for producing small towns in the textile and garment industry: first, they must be clustered; second, they are characterized by finished products.

At the Xingwu Wooling Technology Co., Ltd., Chairman Wu Dongbiao took great pleasure to lead us to visit the exquisite fabric exhibition hall. The textile fabrics featuring fine jewels have already moved to many countries around the world. Founded in 1999, Xingwu Woollen is a member of many woollen woolen enterprises in Changchun Town. It is a high-tech enterprise in Jiangsu Province and has the only Chinese well-known trademark in the domestic woolen woolen industry. The 18 years of wind and rain growth made Wu Dongbiao know a truth: "If enterprises want to develop, they must rely on industrial clusters. It is impossible to fight alone."

“In 2013, Changchun Town was awarded “Jiangsu Province Woollen Wool Town”; in 2016, Changchun Town was rated as “Jiangsu Excellent Industrial Cluster”; in 2017, Changchun Town was created as “Chinese Woollen Wool” The town '.' Jiangyin Mayor Zhen Yuzhen, such as the town of Tao Yujun, said that now Changchun Town has a complete industrial chain from "one hair" to "one piece of clothing."

"Wedding one-stop, happy for a lifetime" is a resounding slogan of Suzhou Huqiu Bridal City, and it is also the purpose of Huqiu Bridal City serving the public. With the business and tourism linkage to deepen the industrial connotation, the original single wedding market transformation and upgrade to a one-stop wedding cultural tourism industrial park, Huqiu wedding city has attracted more than 200,000 new couples to buy wedding supplies in recent years.

Changshu Meili Town, a total of 843 textile and garment enterprises above designated size enterprises have more than 60, led to 1.9 million jobs, formed a collection of raw materials, weaving, finishing and end products in one of the more mature industry cluster, is our first knitting industry output value of over ten billion cluster, also China's largest production base velvet, velvet warp formation of a global product largest production base.

China Dieshiqiao International Home Textile City is the largest and the only modern and internationalized home textile market in the world. Zhao Yonggen, head of planning department of Jiangsu Dieshiqiao Market Management Committee, said that the Dieshiqiao home textile industry has formed a complete industrial chain covering weaving, dyeing, printing, finished products, R&D and logistics, covering more than 200 square kilometers. More than 6,500 production enterprises and super-home textile industry clusters that drive more than 500,000 people, the annual production capacity exceeds 200 billion yuan.

Zhenze Town, Wujiang District, Suzhou City, is now gathering more than 100 silk enterprises such as Taihu Lake Snow and Silk Cube, accounting for 40% of Suzhou City, and forming the entire industrial chain of silk home textiles. The annual output value of silk industry cluster is over 1.4 billion, with an annual growth rate of nearly 30. %; Changshu Ella town of clothing enterprises accounted for 72% of enterprises in the region, involving all aspects of the clothing chain, which has 81 garment production enterprises, 41 enterprises of creative fashion design, 686 commercial enterprises, led 1.2 Ten thousand people are employed, operating income is 1.5 billion yuan, and tax is 35 million yuan...

Talent + capital, expand industrial cluster

Why is the cluster generated? In Xie Ming's view, it is necessary to meet the three conditions of a large total, a group of leading enterprises, and the government to promote support.

Haishu and Sunshine are the leaders of the two major groups in Xinqiao Town. They have the textile and garment industry cluster supported by Jingya Group, Zhenxin Industry, Good Luck, Longyang and other advantageous growth enterprises, and become the world's largest woolen garment production. base. New Town deputy mayor Tang Zhenwei introduced in 2016, the town wool garment industry to achieve sales of 79 billion yuan billing, into the town's total exports reached $ 180 million, wool apparel products exported to five continents, and with 60 countries and regions Many well-known customers have established long-term, friendly and stable cooperative relations, most of which are international top or well-known clothing brands, such as Armani, LV, Clariani, Jenniya, BOSS, Uniqlo and so on.

As a small town, Xinqiao has such a huge industrial clustering capacity? Tang Zhenwei gave the answer: First, talent is intensive. In recent years, Haishu Group and Sunshine Group have successively implemented the “Phoenix Plan” and the “Professional Flying Plan”, and continue to introduce talents, and give good status to the status and the highest-grade houses to build their nests and attract talents. The second is capital intensive. The biggest role of capital is to expand the scale of the company. Xinqiao is a forerunner. In addition to the existing listed companies such as Haishu Home, Jiangsu Sunshine and Sihuan Bio, Xinqiao is still cultivating the listed echelon, the first big enterprise, the latter. small companies. Third, strong scientific and technological innovation. Xinqiao encourages key key enterprises to take the lead in undertaking major national science and technology projects as well as major national and provincial key scientific and technological projects, and promote enterprises to increase technological innovation and enhance their core competitiveness. In turn, the more clusters in the region, the more attractive the talents, capital and technology will be, and the greater the concentration of industries.

In addition, industry associations are also an important driving force for the development of industrial clusters. The knitted underwear industry is the traditional pillar industry of Gushan Town, Jiangyin City. As early as the late 1970s and early 1980s, there were people in Gushan Town who started underwear workshops. With the continuous deepening of reform and opening up, Gushan's underwear enterprises have achieved a leap from nothing, from small to large, from scattered to gathering. The town currently has 78 underwear enterprises, with an annual production capacity of 60 million pieces (sets) and invoice sales of 3.206 billion yuan.

However, for a period of time, “one high and two low” (high labor costs, low product value, low technical content) has deeply plagued Gushan underwear enterprises. Due to the low barriers to entry, low-level redundant underwear more; at the same time, as a labor-intensive enterprise, with the implementation of the "Labor Law", increased labor costs, profit margins underwear getting smaller and smaller. In order to compete for labor and market, some vicious competition will inevitably occur between peers. In 2008, a sudden global financial crisis completely changed the idea that Gushan underwear company “peer is a family”, and peer companies no longer compete against each other because of competition, and begin to sympathize, understand and support each other.

The development status of Gushan underwear has attracted the attention of the town party committee and government. At the same time, more and more entrepreneurs have turned their attention to the establishment of industry associations. The ship is resistant to risks. “In order to avoid disorderly competition and information non-interoperability of various enterprises, Gushan Town established the Underwear Industry Association in 2009 to guide the industry to develop and develop the road, to guide the scientific development of the underwear industry in the town, and to form a large-scale enterprise, large, medium and small. The benign development trend of enterprise symbiosis has effectively promoted the scale, intensive and professional development of the garment industry,” said Chen Wenqi, deputy mayor of Gushan Town.

Looking back on the past, the rapid development of the Jiangsu textile industry cluster is because the cluster area has created and exerted many comparative advantages. In the current situation, although some comparative advantages such as low wage costs have ceased to exist, there are still many advantages to continue to support the development of cluster economy, such as the local party committee government's support in policy measures and unique specialization. Production, upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, mutual promotion of industry and professional markets, rapid dissemination of professional information in the region, and gradual improvement of public services. Looking forward to the future, under the encouragement of growth engines such as “three to one, one reduction and one supplement”, “mass entrepreneurship, innovation” and “ Made in China 2025”, I believe that Jiangsu textile industry cluster will usher in a new breakthrough!