Ningbo Clothing: Enhance Independent Innovation &Nbsp; Enhance Core Competitiveness

According to statistics, from 1 to August this year, Ningbo's textile and garment industry achieved 58 billion 930 million yuan in total industrial output value, 56 billion 820 million yuan in sales value, 30 billion 330 million yuan in export delivery value, 5 billion 244 million yuan in profits and taxes, 17.88%, 17.54%, 16.12% and 16.17% respectively over the same period.

Textile and garment industry is the traditional dominant industry in Ningbo.

There are nearly 4500 textile and garment production enterprises in the city, nearly 500 thousand employees, and textile products account for 3% of the country's total, with 20 "Chinese famous brands" and 25 "China famous trademarks". Ningbo has become a famous clothing city in China.

It is understood that, in order to vigorously enhance the level of independent innovation of textile and garment enterprises and achieve a leap from textile and garment market to strong textile and garment market, the Ningbo municipal government has clearly defined the development of high-grade textile and apparel as one of the 5 pillar pillar industries in the future. It encourages the combination of advanced and restricted, backward and backward industries, guides the direction of social investment, and promotes the optimization and upgrading of the textile and garment industry structure.

The Ningbo textile industry readjustment and revitalization action plan put forward that by 2011, we should build up domestic advanced textile and garment manufacturing bases, R & D bases and international textile trade centers with 3 distinctive textiles in clothing, decoration and industry.

Relying on exhibition to promote the textile and garment industry to improve the level of independent innovation and pformation and upgrading is a successful practice in Ningbo.

In line with the aim of "relying on industry, service industry and upgrading industry", Ningbo has held international garment festivals and costumes Fair every year since 1997.

According to Lin Keyu, director of Ningbo economic and Trade Commission, this year's Expo will play a leading role in boosting pformation and upgrading of industries and building a platform for garment development. It will help and support Ningbo textile and garment enterprises to strengthen the construction of upstream creative design and downstream channels, and further enhance the market competitiveness of Ningbo's clothing.

The Ningbo Clothing Fair will also hold a series of activities such as the release of the fashion trend, the release of new products, the matching of buyers and manufacturers on one to one, and strive to cultivate Ningbo into a fashion and creative publishing base in China.

At the same time, it encourages enterprises to make gradient pfer to simple manufacturing links, and focuses on developing headquarters economy such as R & D, design and marketing in order to promote the pformation of textile and clothing from traditional industries to creative industries.