Qinghe’s cashmere industry has achieved rapid development in the 1990s. The Qinghe County Party Committee and County Government have taken advantage of the situation and promoted the cashmere industry to achieve unprecedented glory. The cashmere industry’s economic proportion in the county has increased to more than 70%. , becoming a veritable pillar industry.

Since 2000, the competition in primary processing, mainly cashmere carding, has been fierce, the market has been ups and downs, and the market has been good and bad. As a result, the majority of cashmere carding households have meager processing profits and their development confidence has been hit. Qinghe County promptly The call was put forward to "consolidate and improve primary processing and vigorously develop deep processing", and realized the expansion towards serialization and refinement of knitted sweaters, cashmere pants, fabrics, clothing products, etc., ushering in a broad world for the development of the cashmere industry. Eight cashmere brands in the county have been rated as provincial famous trademarks. Since 1994, Qinghe has held fifteen International Cashmere and Down Products Expo, attracting merchants from all over the country and the world to come to Qinghe to invest and purchase cashmere products. After years of joint efforts by the people of the county, the cashmere industry has now undergone major changes in four directions: The raw materials required for the Qinghe cashmere industry are: goat raw cashmere, sheep raw wool, yak raw cashmere, and camel raw cashmere. The initial procurement method was for enterprises to spontaneously go to pastoral areas to purchase goods door-to-door. Subsequently, professional purchasing companies were born in pastoral areas, and local companies entrusted purchasing companies with procurement. At the same time, the army of individual purchasers is also growing rapidly, directly cooperating with herdsmen to send raw materials to Qinghe for sale. As a result, the market is a mixed bag, and disputes over quality, grade, payment recovery and other issues often occur.

However, in recent years, with the increasing development of information and transportation, a large number of herdsmen have come to Qinghe to sell raw materials, and Qinghe’s unique landscape-Cashmere Inn came into being. The inn is responsible for the accommodation of herdsmen, safe storage of raw materials, transactions, and payment recovery. At present, there are more than 40 cashmere inns in Qinghe, and more than 50% of the raw materials required by Qinghe every year are collected and distributed by cashmere inns. The processing of raw materials into finished velvet must go through several steps: sorting, washing, and carding. In the 1990s, every household engaged in carding, and the processing quality and quality could not be guaranteed. At present, Qinghe has formed a specialized production pattern, with large and medium-sized households carding cashmere, and small households carding short cashmere, sheep cashmere, cow cashmere, and camel cashmere. More than 200 villages specializing in down carding have emerged. The county has nearly 20,000 carding machines and 100,000 employees.

On this basis, a relatively complete market purchase and sales system for raw cashmere, non-plush cashmere and wool residue has been formed. The purchasing tentacles of raw cashmere have also penetrated into Afghanistan, Outer Mongolia, Iran, Kazakhstan and other countries. More than 100,000 merchants come to Qinghe every year, and nearly 10,000 tons of raw cashmere are traded annually. Improving the industrial chain and developing deep processing are effective means to strengthen and expand the cashmere industry. In recent years, Qinghe has proposed the concept of developing "big textiles". On the basis of vigorously developing cashmere products, it has actively expanded the development of sheep's cashmere, cotton, silk and cashmere blended products, and guided the cashmere industry's deep processing to develop in a diversified direction. At present, there are more than 280 cashmere deep-processing enterprises in the county with fixed assets of more than 1 million yuan, and 32 cashmere joint ventures and cooperation projects have been established, which has greatly promoted the development of the cashmere deep-processing industry.

After the baptism of the market commodity economy, the majority of enterprises have emerged with a number of famous brands, such as Hongye, Donggao, Yagosidi, Yiluodi, Rongzhijie, etc. More than 80 enterprises in the county have obtained self-operated import and export rights, and their foreign exchange earnings from exports have ranked among the best in the province for four consecutive years. Qinghe cashmere industry has developed in the direction of industrial clusters in recent years, and the degree of industrial agglomeration is increasing day by day. Qinghe County complied with the requirements of industrial development, assessed the situation, and planned and constructed the Cashmere Science and Technology Park, covering an area of ??12 square kilometers. It has attracted 150 companies to settle in the park, and the investment scale is generally more than 3 million yuan, of which the investment scale of Hongye Company reached 560 million yuan.

With its distinctive industrial advantages, advanced planning, and reasonable layout, Cashmere Science and Technology Park has been rated as one of the top ten private science and technology parks and provincial economic and technological development zones in the country.

The improvement of industrial agglomeration, the refinement of division of labor and cooperation, and the establishment of the country’s largest cashmere specialty cashmere industrial park have led the Qinghe cashmere industry into an intensive development model, responding to the proposals put forward by the Party Central Committee and the State Council. The scientific outlook on development has well implemented the sustainable development strategy.