To Build A Strong Province Of "Intelligent Manufacturing" Of Clothing, Henan Seizes The Opportunity Of Industrial Transfer

Workshop of Zhengzhou Ruoyu Clothing Co., Ltd

Zhengzhou Yalida Clothing Co., Ltd. ironing workshop

From June 19 to 21, 2023 China's industrial transfer and development docking activity (Henan) will be held in Zhengzhou. This activity will closely focus on building key industrial chain clusters, building a modern industrial system, through deepening regional cooperation, international cooperation and strengthening industrial chain investment attraction, innovation chain investment attraction, supply chain investment attraction, comprehensively promote the quality improvement and development of traditional industries, key cultivation of emerging industries, future industries breaking the ice and seizing the beach, and build an advanced manufacturing chain cluster network, Deeply integrate into domestic and international double circulation.

On June 14, Li Gang, president of Henan Garment Industry Association, said in an exclusive interview with the reporter of Dahe News · Henan Video, that the garment industry is a traditional manufacturing industry in Henan. Now it aims at high-end and intelligent development direction, seizes the opportunity of industrial transfer, deepens regional cooperation, breaks the pattern and reestablishes the direction, and in the tide of undertaking industrial transfer in coastal developed areas, Explore the effective high-quality development path of "Skillful Daughter Project", "Four First, One First" and so on.

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Industrial transfer of garment manufacturing in the province

As early as ten years ago, Chinese women's trousers were all looking at Henan. More than half of the production capacity of women's trousers in Henan is in Zhengzhou. Now, the women's wear industry in Zhengzhou has transformed from single pants to full category women's wear. Yesterday, the video reporter of Dahe News Henan visited Zhengzhou Textile and Garment Industrial Park.

Zhengzhou Yalida Clothing Co., Ltd., as a leader in women's trousers manufacturing, is also a mature brand women's clothing enterprise integrating R&D, design, production, manufacturing, marketing and brand operation. At present, Yalida's product line takes women's trousers as the core, covering the whole range of women's clothing categories, forming a nationwide sales network.

Wen Ming, assistant general manager of Zhengzhou Yalida Clothing Co., Ltd., said that the company's production capacity has reached more than 3 million pieces per year. They will also transfer some of their production capacity to other cities in the province, such as Zhoukou, Zhumadian, Anyang, etc., and cooperate with local processing plants, so that local left behind women can realize their desire to work at home. At present, there are dozens of such processing plants, which can share 15% of the production capacity for the company every year.

Zhengzhou Ruoyu Garments Co., Ltd., as a local garment enterprise in Zhengzhou, which is mainly engaged in ready to wear business for women in all seasons, began to transform into women's clothing in 2015. Up to now, the company's brand Smoothy Women's Wear has more than 500 exclusive stores in various provinces and cities across the country.

Zhao Zhenyu, the general manager of Zhengzhou Ruoyu Clothing Co., Ltd., said that they are also one of the participants in the "Skillful Daughter in Law Project". They have partners in Anyang, Shangqiu and other places to transfer production capacity to places with lower labor costs, and also solve the employment problem of local left behind women. Among them, Shangqiu Yongcheng can share the production capacity of 300000 to 400000 pieces (sets) for them every year.

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Large scale but small brand

Henan's clothing industry ranks higher in the country. Li Gang, president of Henan Garment Industry Association, said in an interview with Henan Video reporter Dahe Daily that in 2021, there will be about 167000 companies, factories, institutions and businesses engaged in garment production, design and trade in Henan Province, with about 4.8 million employees, an annual output of 3.5 billion pieces of various garments, and an annual sales of 330 billion yuan, ranking sixth in China.

China's major garment provinces and powerful provinces are basically in the eastern coastal areas, concentrated in the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta. The top five in the domestic clothing industry are Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong, Fujian, etc. In recent years, thanks to the project of "Skillful Daughter" and other projects promoted for ten consecutive years and the undertaking of industrial transfer from coastal areas, Henan's clothing industry has greatly improved its position in China.

Zhang Xun, executive vice president of Henan Garment Industry Association, said that Henan has formed a relatively complete industrial chain system of textile industry, including spinning, chemical fiber, weaving, dyeing and finishing, clothing, home textile, textile machinery manufacturing and other industries, and has become a major textile and garment manufacturing province in China, as well as an important transfer and undertaking place of textile and garment industry in central China. Although the productivity benefit is not high and the product innovation is not enough, there is great room for improvement and sufficient element resources for improvement.

"Compared with the developed coastal areas, there is still a big gap in Henan's clothing industry." Wen Ming, assistant general manager of Zhengzhou Yalida Clothing Co., Ltd., said that although Henan's clothing industry has scale, the cluster effect is not enough, the brand development is also relatively lacking, and the added value of products is not large. In terms of research and development of new materials and products, as well as digital transformation and intelligent manufacturing of production lines, the gap between Henan garment industry and coastal areas is obvious.

Henan wants to build a world garment factory and realize trillions of industries, which has both advantages and disadvantages. Li Gang, president of Henan Garment Industry Association, said that the per capita GDP of Henan is lower than the national average, and the net loss of population is very serious, so the demographic dividend of Henan has not been released. The most fundamental task for Henan to develop the clothing industry is to integrate human resources and solve the structural contradiction of human resources.

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Give play to advantages to undertake coastal industrial transfer

According to the introduction, in 2013, Henan officially launched the "Skillful Daughter Project". Through guiding the sinking of production capacity, it has integrated and trained 700000 "Three Noises" (helpless left behind, boring idleness, helpless poverty) rural left behind women. The training has become a major force in the clothing industry, driven 200000 poor families out of poverty, and formed 150 billion yuan/year of high-quality production capacity.

Henan video reporter from Dahe News learned that as a bridge connecting the government and enterprises, Henan Garment Industry Association has solidly promoted the "Skillful Daughter in Law Project" to help poverty alleviation and rural revitalization; Steadily implement the "settling down project" and create a model for rapid construction and completion of the park; Continuously expand the "emerging market project" to promote the prosperity of "two businesses"; Vigorously carry out the "brand promotion project" to create a well-known brand; Efforts should be made to build an "industrial marriage project" to serve the transfer of industries.

At present, the garment industry in coastal areas has been in the late mature period, facing problems such as aging of technical talents, reduction of staff resources, rising factor costs, and weakening competitiveness. It is a general trend for the industry to move to the source of labor and underdeveloped areas.

"The demand side of the clothing industry continues to expand, while the supply side continues to shrink. Henan's advantages in location, market, transportation, policy and other aspects have also become the most competitive place for Henan to develop textile and clothing." Li Gang said that Henan's clothing industry should give full play to its own advantages in undertaking industrial transfer from the eastern coastal areas.

Ten departments, including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the National Development and Reform Commission, jointly issued the Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Orderly Transfer of Manufacturing Industry, which proposed to promote the domestic gradient transfer of industries. We will guide the focus of labor-intensive industries to shift to areas in the central and western regions with abundant labor and convenient location and transportation.

The "Fourteenth Five Year Plan" for Investment Promotion and Undertaking Industrial Transfer in Henan Province proposed that Zhoukou, Shangqiu, Zhumadian, Luohe and other traditional agricultural areas, relying on the advantages of consumer markets and labor resources, actively undertake labor-intensive enterprises such as food, footwear, textile and clothing in Zhejiang, Guangdong, Shanghai and other places, and accelerate the introduction of processing trade, R&D design and supporting industries.

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Create the whole industrial chain of clothing industry

"When the wind blows, it will wrinkle the spring water." Undertaking the industrial transfer from the developed coastal areas will bring many impacts to Henan's clothing industry.

Wen Ming, assistant general manager of Zhengzhou Yalida Clothing, said that after the clothing enterprises in the coastal developed areas landed in Henan, they will also bring development impetus to local clothing enterprises like them, which can better promote the high-quality development of the clothing industry and boost the creation and promotion of clothing brands in Henan.

Zhao Zhenyu, general manager of Zhengzhou Ruoyu Clothing, said that talent is the core factor restricting the development of enterprises at present. If Zhengzhou can not provide a better platform for high-end talents in the clothing industry, high-end talents are more willing to develop in developed coastal areas. Henan will also bring local capital and talents after undertaking the coastal clothing industry transfer, which is also conducive to the high-quality development of local enterprises in Henan.

Clothing industry is a typical labor-intensive manufacturing industry. Li Gang said that Henan should increase its efforts to undertake the transfer of the clothing industry, and actively carry out industry chain oriented investment attraction and cluster oriented investment attraction. We will develop and expand industrial clusters, foster leading enterprises, and accelerate the cultivation of a number of advantageous industrial clusters with distinctive characteristics, large, small and medium-sized enterprises, upstream and downstream cooperation and complementation, complete industrial supporting facilities, and significant agglomeration effects.

In this regard, Wen Ming suggested that the relevant departments of the Henan Provincial Government should strengthen policy support, play its leading role, retain foreign enterprises, let local enterprises play their local advantages, strengthen the construction of the clothing industry chain, supplement and strengthen the chain, open up the collaborative development channels of upstream and downstream enterprises, and finally achieve cluster development.

Song Xiangqing, vice president of the Institute of Government Management of Beijing Normal University and director of the Industrial Economy Research Center, suggested that at present, Henan needs to seize the strategic opportunity of a new round of garment industry transfer to build a strong province of garment manufacturing. On the one hand, based on its own advantages, we will integrate human resources and strengthen production and manufacturing. On the other hand, we should attach importance to product research and development, innovation, and intelligent production, so as to achieve high-end and intelligent clothing industry, improve production efficiency and enterprise benefits, and build a trillion industry.

(Source: Dahe News)