Local Industry: Henan Xiping Clothing Has Become A Big Local Industry

In recent years, Xiping County actively inherits and carries forward Leizu culture, takes "science and technology, fashion, and green" as the guide, actively integrates into the "Belt and Road", adheres to the "one zone and multiple parks" model, vigorously undertakes industrial transfer, vigorously extends the chain and supplements the chain, and continues to cultivate and expand the development trend of textile and clothing industry clusters. The "Golden Scissors" brand is growing, and the "dance" of Chinese clothing and neon clothes is thriving.

Up to now, Xiping County has more than 50 textile and clothing production enterprises, more than 5000 workers in the clothing industry, including 15 enterprises above designated size, which can produce 20 million pieces of various clothing throughout the year, with an annual output value of more than 3 billion yuan. It has successively won the honorary titles of National Textile Industry Transfer Pilot Park, National Smart Textile Industry Park Pilot, China's Famous Garment Manufacturing City, and Henan Province's Famous Garment Industry City.

Xiping's garment industry shines brilliantly

　　 Where is the "Hometown of Clothing"

The legend of Lei Zu, the "God of Silkworm", the first imperial concubine of the Yellow Emperor of China, is widely known. In particular, her first invention of sericulture, silk reeling and silk weaving has become the beginning of world silk culture and clothing civilization.

Where is Lei Zu's hometown? According to the Records of the Historian, Lei Zu, the humane female ancestor who helped the Yellow Emperor unify the world and started the civilized life of farming for men and women, was born in Xiping, Henan Province 5000 years ago. She was called "Xianchan" because she educated people to plant mulberry, raise silkworms, and make silk and clothing. This is the earliest "source" of clothing culture in China.

As the hometown of Lei Zu, the "God of Silkworm", the long-standing clothing culture gene has long been deeply integrated into the blood of Xiping people for thousands of years, and the reputation of "Xiping Tailor" was once known throughout the country.

It is understood that as early as the 1980s, Xiping was famous in the Central Plains and the whole country for its production and sales of clothing. Xiping people led the establishment of hundreds of clothing enterprises, such as Lingxiu, Zhuoda, Lehuatian, and created many clothing brands, such as Lingxiu, Mengshuya, Luoli Spring, and more than 10 international trade cities Tangxi Garment City is a leading garment processing wholesale and retail market, radiating over 20 provinces, cities and counties around, and becoming an important clothing distribution center in southern Henan.

"Under the influence of Leizu culture, the clothing industry is a traditional industry that started earlier and developed faster in Xiping." Zhu Xiaoyan, the executive deputy director of Xiping County Industrial Cluster, said that Xiping "Golden Scissors Tailor" had been rated as the national excellent labor brand, and now there are more than 20000 "Xiping Tailors" starting their businesses across the country.

　　 From workshop "tailor" to fashion "craftsman"

In the intelligent production workshop of Lingxiu Mengshuya, a famous women's trousers brand in China, more than 400 workers orderly carried out flow production on more than 20 production lines in Leizu Garment New Town, Xiping County

"This workshop sends 2 million pieces of women's trousers of all kinds to all parts of the world every year, with an output value of nearly 1 billion yuan." Chen Yonggang, the head of the company, said that as a leading brand of women's trousers in China, design is the core competitiveness, and his hometown Xiping, as the birthplace of Leizu culture and the cultural origin of silk reeling and clothing making, gave him a lot of inspiration and inspiration.

With the iterative upgrading of the clothing industry, Xiping County, relying on the rich cultural accumulation, has effectively done a good job in the organic "grafting and marriage" between Leizu culture and the development of the clothing industry. It has planned to build a 5.3 square kilometer smart industrial park in Leizu Garment New Town, which uses lean and modern management mode to realize the advantages of low cost and high efficiency of the industry, Strive to build the largest transfer base of China's clothing industry.

It is understood that after the completion of the first phase of Leizu Garment New Town, front-line enterprises such as Gejin, Huazhinuo and Xinsiwei have been attracted to settle in Zhishang Industrial Park in a short time. The first brand of Chinese women's trousers, Mengshuya, a large garment export enterprise, Cathay Pacific Clothing, a leading brand of Chinese underwear, foreign trade production enterprises Arben, cotton doll and other projects have also been completed and put into operation, And it has become a processing site for many famous brands such as Disney, Uniqlo, Jiumuwang, etc.

"The agglomeration effect of the textile and clothing industry in Xiping has basically taken shape." The comrade in charge of the Development and Reform Commission of Xiping County introduced that the government and enterprises cooperated to promote the economy and employment of 10000 people in the clothing industry, which further improved the sustainable development ability of the clothing industry and created the development characteristics of "Xiping speed, Xiping experience, Xiping mode".

　　 Clothing industry takes the stage to sing "economic drama"

"When we came to Xiping, we were greeted with enthusiasm and civilization. This is the hometown of Lei Zu, the 'silkworm god'. It is the birthplace of clothing civilization, and has the traditional cultural advantages of developing the textile and clothing industry." Teng Haijun, general manager of Zhongzhe Clothing Technology Co., Ltd., told reporters that it took less than 4 months for Zhongzhe Clothing to start construction and put into production, Once again confirmed the "Xiping speed".

Development is the absolute principle and project is the hard carrier. With the steady implementation of the second phase project of Leizu Garment New Town, Xiping County's leading textile and clothing industry has further strengthened its ability to extend the chain and supplement the chain, and has attracted many well-known enterprises, such as Zhongzhe Group, one of the top 500 private enterprises, the promotion of the second phase project of Leizu Garment New Town, and Yunbat Group, one of the top 100 export enterprises in the industry, the first listed brand of women's clothing, Golith Garments.

Why did these major garment industry projects choose to invest in Xiping? "Xiping has an unparalleled long history and profound cultural heritage. The leaders of the four leading groups in Xiping have unparalleled confidence in supporting and developing the clothing industry. The political and ecological environment in Xiping is unparalleled. The various preferential policies that Xiping supports industrial development are unparalleled across the country." Li Gang, president of the Henan Garment Association, proposed Xiping's "four unparalleled advantages" The answer is given, which is the prelude to the development of the textile and clothing industry.

From "wild geese flying to the south" to "phoenix returning to the nest", earning money and caring for the family are "two things". In order to help garment enterprises solve the problem of difficult recruitment and employment, Xiping County firmly establishes the concept of "attracting investment and providing service when recruiting", deeply implements the projects of "attracting phoenix to return to the nest" and "sewing plates to the countryside" to guide them to return to their hometown for employment, vigorously implements the "training plan for 10000 garment industry workers" and the construction of "everyone with certificates and skills in Henan", Ensure that the workers needed by garment enterprises can be recruited, used and retained, and truly achieve the goal of "enterprise efficiency, worker income and economic development". At present, nearly 100000 people in Xiping County are employed at home.

Photographed by Chunyu, Leizu Clothing City, Zhishang Industrial Park, Xiping County

From "hard power" to "soft environment", polish the "golden signboard" of service. Xiping County actively increased investment, further improved infrastructure construction, and strengthened the bearing capacity, service capacity and attraction of the industrial cluster; Establish a small and micro enterprise loan seed fund management committee in the industrial cluster to help enterprises solve financing problems; The "nanny style" service and the whole process agency system are implemented, and the systems of "one time", "one network" and "time limited" are implemented to create a high-quality development environment.

"At that time, 'Xiping Tailor' created a huge industry with one knife and one cut; now, 'Xiping Garment' leads the fashion trend with a strict craftsmanship spirit." The person in charge of Xiping County Government said that with unparalleled advantages, solid industrial foundation and increasingly complete industrial chain, Xiping textile and garment industry is moving from "intelligent manufacturing" to "brand", Strive to move forward towards the goal of ten billion level clothing industry cluster.

Author: Ding Yan Correspondent Tian Chunyu