Phnom Penh (FN), Oct. 26 – At present, it is the peak period for the delivery of woolen fabric. At Nuolan Clothing Co., Ltd. located in Pingnan County, Guigang, Guangxi, white woolen looms are running, and workers are skillfully operating various machines in their positions. "80 per cent of our products are exported to the European market, and we are fully booked up this year." said Li Zhen, the deputy general manager of Guigang Nuolan Clothing Co., Ltd. on the 26th.

Guigang Nuolan Clothing Co., Ltd. invested by Oujiate Clothing Co., Ltd. of Dongguan, Guangdong Province, was established in September 2019 and officially put into operation in October 2022. Li Zhen said, "Our main products are various types of knitted clothing for women, with a monthly production of 250,000-300,000 pieces of clothing. This year's exports are expected to reach 3 million pieces and the output value will be RMB150 million yuan."

The China (Guigang) Textile and Clothing Fashion New Area (hereinafter referred to as the "Fashion New Area") where Guigang Nuolan Clothing Co., Ltd. is located, with a total area of 60.58 square kilometers, is one of the largest textile and clothing industry chain bases in China. Fashion New Area is composed of "One Core and Six Parks", namely Zhenlong Headquarters Core Area, Dacheng Green Ecological Park, Wulin Intelligent Manufacturing Park, Da'an Workwear Customization Park, Linjiang Brand Innovation Park, Daxin High-quality Children's Clothing Park, and Mule Athleisure Clothing Park, forming a one-stop production line for printing and dyeing, sweater ironing, and accessories market.

The core and main parks of the Fashion New Area are located in Pingnan County. Pingnan County, located in the center of the Pearl River-Xijiang River Economic Belt, has the unique location advantage of undertaking the industrial transfer of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and coordinating with Guangdong-Guangxi textile supply chain. Moreover, it is rich in land and labor resources.

Pingnan County actively guides eastern enterprises to achieve win-win cooperation in creating the upgraded version of "East-to-West Relocation of the Textile Industry" through technology upgrades, equipment updates, and process upgrades. Most of the enterprises that have settled down at the Fashion New Area are transferred from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Many of the enterprises that have been put into operation have realized technology and process upgrades, rather than transfer of outdated equipment and process from the Greater Bay Area to Pingnan. Industrial transfer is also an industrial upgrade." said He Zhongwu, the director of the Pingnan County Textile and Clothing Industry Development Center.

The first phase of the Zhongjian Sports and Leisure Clothing Intelligent Factory Project, located in the Fashionable New Area, was completed for trial production in September this year. "Our entire project is based on industry-leading automation, digitization, and intellectualization. Currently, we have installed 10 clothing hanging production lines. After the factory is put into production, the planned annual output value is RMB 250 million yuan, and the annual sales revenue is expected to exceed RMB200 million yuan." said Yang Hao, the assistant general manager of Guangxi Zhongjian Sports and Leisure Clothing Co., Ltd.

According to He Zhongwu, "the Fashion New Area is guided by green functional dyeing and finishing, supported by technological textile fabrics, with a focus on high-end fashion manufacturing. In order to vigorously develop the textile and clothing fashion industry covering an entire industry chain, it concentrates on building a modern high-end textile and clothing innovation cluster, an green demonstration zone for industrial transfer from Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao, and a pilot zone for the development of the ASEAN International Corridor.

" At present, the park has introduced 259 enterprises such as Shifang Investment Group and Guannan Investment Group, with an investment amount of approximately RMB 34.5 billion yuan. A total of over 100 enterprises began to be constructed, 47 enterprises have been completed and put into operation, 53 projects are under construction, and 7 enterprises are above designated size. The development of industrial agglomeration is taking shape.

Zhou Jianhua, the president of Guannan Investment Group, has been engaged in the wool weaving industry for more than 20 years. With him in the lead, more than 100 textile, clothing, dyeing, and wool weaving equipment manufacturers from Dongguan, Guangzhou, Wenzhou, Kunshan, and other places have settled down in Pingnan County. "Guangxi is a cutting-edge position connecting the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and ASEAN, with great advantages in industrial undertaking and production capacity aggregation. The development of the textile and clothing industry has promising prospects." said Zhou Jianhua.

The textile and clothing industry is a traditional pillar industry in China, an important livelihood industry, and an industry that creates new advantages in internationalization. In recent years, Guigang has prioritized the textile and clothing industry as one of the five 100 billion-yuan industry clusters, actively promoting the transformation, upgrading, and healthy development of the textile and clothing industry. A new textile and clothing city is emerging.

According to the officials of Guigang, the city is currently making every effort to build three textile and clothing industry clusters: the Fashion New Area, the Mule Athleisure Clothing Production Base, and the Gangnan Qiaoxu Down Industry Base. Among them, the Mule Athleisure Clothing Production Base in Guiping has more than 500 textile and clothing enterprises, with an annual production of over 300 million sets of sports clothing, as the largest athleisure clothing production base in Guangxi; the Gangnan Down Industry Base, one of the three down and feather processing bases in China, has over 150 down processing enterprises, with an annual output of 67,000 tons of feather and 15,000 tons of down, accounting for 28 per cent of the down and feather processed in China.

In recent years, the Maritime Silk Road Textile and Clothing Fashion Conference and the 15th Global Textile and Apparel Supply Chain Conference have been held in Guigang, further expanding Guigang's "circle of friends" and injecting new momentum and bring new vitality to the accelerated development of regional industrial chain supply chains.
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