Tongzhou's home textile industry started in the 1970s and 1980s. It is the leading industry in Tongzhou that started early and developed rapidly. After more than 20 years of development, it has grown from small to large, from a family workshop to a modern enterprise. It is famous at home and abroad for its large scale, complete varieties, complete supporting facilities, and strong research and development capabilities, forming a comparative advantage in market competition. In December 2007, it was awarded the title of "China's Famous Home Textile City" by the China Textile Industry Association.
First, the overall advantage. In 2007, the home textile industry achieved sales of 50 billion yuan, making it the largest home textile production, sales and export base in the country with the highest market share. Chuanjiang Town, one of the main gathering places for home textiles, has been named "China's Characteristic Town for Home Textiles and Embroidery". There are more than 1,500 enterprises engaged in and related to the production of home textiles in the city, employing more than 145,000 people, including 342 enterprises above designated size. There have emerged 29 companies with sales exceeding 100 million yuan, including Jiangsu Ziluolan, Jiangsu Jiabao, Jiangsu Yalun, Jiangsu Golden Sun, and Tongzhou Lansiyu.
The second is the supporting advantages. With the market as the guide and industry as the center, there are thousands of industrial and commercial enterprises with supporting services and tens of thousands of family industrial and commercial households, forming a unique and huge production and operation group with companies and farmers, and products sold to tens of thousands of households; forming a corresponding It has a relatively complete production division of labor and collaboration system for spinning, weaving, printing and dyeing, finished product manufacturing, finishing, packaging, and research and development. The home textile industry has more than 10,000 water-jet and air-jet looms, more than 30,000 computer embroidery machines and computer multi-needle quilting machines, more than 200 spray-coated cotton production lines, printing and dyeing and finishing production lines, and other related large-scale equipment. With more than 3,000 sets, technological progress has become an inexhaustible driving force for the development of the home textile industry.
The third is market advantage. An important reason for the rapid development of Tongzhou's home textile industry is its reliance on the radiation and driving force of a large modern professional market. After years of cultivation and improvement, Tongzhou Home Textiles Market has become the most important distribution center and price information center for home textiles in the country. At present, the market covers an area of ??more than 2 million square meters, distributes 20,000 designs and varieties, exports to more than 100 countries and regions, and ranks among the top 40 in the country's similar market share in sales. China's Nantong Home Textile City, which is under construction, covers an area of ??1.2 million square meters and has a total investment of more than 2.4 billion yuan in ground infrastructure. It is the third largest home textile trading center in the world.
The fourth is technological advantage. At present, the industrial structure of Tongzhou's home textile industry is accelerating towards modern home textiles, and the corporate structure is accelerating to transform into a pattern dominated by large companies. Resources, talents, and market share are constantly concentrated in advantageous enterprises. A number of well-known domestic and foreign enterprises, such as large companies with Shanshan, Mengjie, Hengyuanxiang, Luolai and other brands, have set up production and sales bases or offices in Tongzhou; Xiamen International Trade acquired A textile company in our city established Jiangsu Baoda Textile Co., Ltd., which played an active role in promoting the development of Tongzhou's home textile industry.
Tongzhou home textile industry has been included in the Jiangsu Province Industrial Cluster Cultivation and Development Plan, and is extremely dynamic and developing in domestic and foreign market competition. The plan for industrial positioning and development in the next five years is to: give full play to comparative advantages, accelerate scale expansion, broaden, thicken, and lengthen the industrial chain, enhance core competitiveness, and strive to increase the average annual sales of home textiles to 27 by 2010 ; Build Tongzhou home textile industry into a well-known R&D and manufacturing base, product trade and exhibition center at home and abroad, and become the largest and most complete super-large home textile product trading market and logistics distribution center in the country. Create 1 national home textile research and development center and 5 to 8 provincial enterprise R&D institutions. Efforts will be made to build a series of home textile product brands, and create 3 to 5 well-known trademarks and 3 to 5 Chinese famous brands to form brand advantages. Concentrate efforts to accelerate the construction of Nantong Home Textile City in China, and ensure that the second phase of the project is completed by the end of the year.
2. Textile and Garment Industry
Tongzhou’s textile industry has a long history and has a history of a hundred years. It has given birth to a profound textile culture and is a traditional characteristic industry. Now it has become the largest domestic textile and apparel production industry. One of the bases, it was awarded the "China Textile Industry Base".
Tongzhou's textile and garment industry is accelerating its transformation into a modern textile pattern. Looking at the development history of the textile and apparel industry, the coordinated advancement of technology, brands, markets and industries is an important factor in its vitality and vitality.
First, the degree of extroversion is high. In 2007, the textile and garment industry achieved sales of 40 billion yuan and is an important pillar industry in Tongzhou. The textile and garment industry has established many specialty stores and sales points at home and abroad, with an export volume of more than 1 billion US dollars, and a number of large companies with annual exports of more than 10 million US dollars have emerged. It is one of the important textile and garment export bases in Jiangsu Province. The products are exported to Southeast Asia, Europe, North America, the Middle East and other places, building a new platform for economic, trade and cultural interaction between Tongzhou and the outside world, showing the distinctive characteristics of openness, compatibility and fashion.
The second is the strong degree of agglomeration. Tongzhou vigorously promotes the agglomeration development of the textile and garment industry, with more than 1,000 textile and garment enterprises employing 80,000 people, including 356 enterprises above designated size. It has cultivated 20 enterprises with sales exceeding 100 million yuan, including Jiangsu Variety Show, Jiangsu Diao, Nantong Hengxiang, Nantong Shunye, Nantong Zhongjin, Nantong Shengtang, and Nantong Huawei. We vigorously implement the brand strategy and develop thousands of new products every year in recent years. More than 100 products have won the title of new product at the provincial level or above. Among them, the "Violet" home textile product is a well-known trademark in China. The development of the industry has led to the extension and improvement of the industrial chain. Tongzhou's textile and garment industry has formed a complete system integrating chemical fiber, weaving, dyeing and finishing, and garment production. Its products range from raw silk, fabrics, raw and auxiliary materials for garments to garment products.
Third, the equipment is better. In the process of industrial development, Tongzhou enterprises have always attached great importance to independent innovation, actively introduced advanced adaptive technologies, and improved the level of process equipment. According to incomplete statistics, the textile and garment industry has 500,000 cotton spinning spindles, 30,000 air-end spinning heads, 50,000 advanced looms of various types, and nearly 100 printing, dyeing, finishing and garment production lines. It has an annual production capacity of 100,000 tons of yarn, 1.5 billion meters of gray fabrics, 1 billion meters of printed and dyed fabrics, and 300 million pieces (sets) of complete sets of garments.
The industrial positioning and development plan of the textile and apparel industry in the next five years is: based on the existing foundation, promote the upgrading of the industrial structure, expand the overall scale, accelerate the cultivation and expansion of the textile and apparel industry cluster, and by 2010 the city's textile and apparel industry The industry's average annual sales growth is striving to reach 28%, making it one of the national textile and clothing production and sales bases. The industrial structure has been significantly optimized, and the proportion of mid-to-high-end products has increased to about 50%. Increase investment in the production of gray fabrics, increase the self-sufficiency rate of clothing fabrics from about 10 to about 60, and increase the proportion of textiles in new fields such as decorative fabrics, industrial fabrics, and medical and sanitary fabrics to about 15. Promote technological progress, focusing on the introduction of clear steel links, combing machines, air-jet looms, etc., to increase the proportion of knot-free yarn to more than 80, and transform to the goal of "shuttle-free". Cultivate 10-15 provincial famous brands, 3-5 Chinese famous brands, and more than 3 international famous brands.