Recently, Zhangjiagang City held a promotion meeting for the high-quality development of the high-end textile industry. At the meeting, 20 high-end textile projects with a total investment of more than 7.1 billion yuan started construction and 3 towns--Tangqiao, Leyu, and Fenghuang—received plaques as cluster areas for textile printing and dyeing industries.
The high-end textile industry is Zhangjiagang’s traditional advantageous industry. The city has gathered over 3,100 textile enterprises, more than 380 of which are enterprises above designated size. The annual revenue of its wool spinning industry exceeds one-sixth of the country’s total. At present, Zhangjiagang is accelerating the development of a modern industrial system integrating R&D, design, production, and sales.
Zhangjiagang will make continuous efforts to promote the digital transformation of local enterprises and the building of smart factories, according to Wang Xi, director of the Zhangjiagang Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology. The city is going to invest 10 billion yuan to support technological transformation and cultivate one 10-billion-level enterprise, five 3-billion-level enterprises, and six “specialized, sophisticated, distinctive and innovative” SMEs in three years.
Local authorities and relevant departments will make concerted efforts to ensure the high-end textile projects to be completed and put into operation as soon as possible. Targeted measures will be taken to assist 100 enterprises to grow into industrial enterprises above designated size, whose output value is expected to increase by 5 billion yuan. And in the following 3 years, 3 billion yuan will be invested for the relocation and transformation of some printing and dyeing enterprises.
In addition, Zhangjiagang City plans to build 2 to 3 public platforms within 3 years to promote school-enterprise cooperation in developing environmentally friendly fashion products to seize opportunities brought by the development of the outdoor sports industry and snow-and-ice economy. Meanwhile, it will step up efforts to boost livestreaming e-commerce and cross-border e-commerce, with the goal of cultivating one or two 100-million-level live-streaming e-commerce enterprises and help local textile enterprises to achieve an on-line sales volume of 5 billion yuan by 2027.
