In recent years, Xiping County has actively inherited and carried forward Leizu culture, guided by “technology, fashion, and green”, actively integrated into the “Belt and Road”, adhered to the “one district, multiple parks” model, vigorously undertaken industrial transfers, and strongly extended the chain Replenish the chain, continue to cultivate and expand the development trend of textile and garment industry clusters, the “Golden Scissors” brand is growing day by day, and the “dance” of Chinese clothing and clothes is full of vitality.
To date, Xiping County has more than 50 textile and garment manufacturing companies and more than 5,000 workers in the garment industry, including 15 enterprises above designated size. It can produce 20 million pieces of various types of 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 Industrial Park Pilot, China’s Famous Garment Manufacturing City, and Henan Province’s Famous Garment Industry City.
Where is the “Hometown of Clothing”
The legend of Lei Zu, the “Goddess of Silkworms” and the ancestor of China, the Yellow Emperor Yuanfei, is well-known to every household, especially her invention of sericulture, silk reeling and weaving. Silk has become the beginning of world silk culture and clothing civilization.
Where is Leizu’s hometown? “Historical Records” records: Leizu, the humanistic female ancestor who assisted the Yellow Emperor to unify the world and started a civilized life of farming and weaving for men and women, was born in Xiping, Henan 5,000 years ago. She was known as the “ancestor” because she taught people to plant mulberry, raise silkworms, and reel silk to make clothes. Silkworm”. This can be called the earliest “source” of China’s clothing culture.
As the hometown of Leizu, the “Silkworm God”, the long-standing clothing cultural gene has been deeply integrated into the blood of Xiping people for thousands of years. 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 nationwide for its production and sales of clothing. Xiping people led the establishment of hundreds of clothing stores such as Lingxiu, Zhuoda and Lehuatian. Clothing enterprises have created multiple clothing brands such as Lingxiu, Mengshuya, and Luoli Chunchun. They have also formed more than 10 clothing processing wholesale and retail markets led by International Trade City and Tangxi Garment City, radiating to more than 20 surrounding areas. Provinces, cities and counties have become important clothing distribution centers in southern Henan.
“Under the influence of Leizu culture, the garment industry is a traditional industry that started early and developed rapidly in Xiping.” Zhu Xiaoyan, executive deputy director of Xiping County Industrial Cluster Zone, introduced that Xiping’s “Golden Scissors Tailor” once It has been rated as a national outstanding labor service brand, and there are still more than 20,000 “Xiping tailors” working hard in entrepreneurship across the country.
From workshop “tailor” to fashion “craftsman”
Enter Leizu Clothing New Town in Xiping County, in the intelligent production workshop of Lingxiu Mengshuya, a well-known Chinese women’s trousers brand. , more than 400 workers carry out assembly operations in an orderly manner on more than 20 production lines…
“This workshop sends 2 million pairs of women’s pants of all kinds to all over the world every year, with an output value of nearly 1 billion yuan.” The company is responsible for Mr. Chen Yonggang introduced that as the leading brand of women’s trousers in the country, design is the core competitiveness, and his hometown Xiping, as the birthplace of Leizu culture and the cultural origin of silk reeling and garment making, gave him a lot of inspiration and inspiration.
With the iterative upgrading of the clothing industry, Xiping County relies on its rich cultural heritage to effectively integrate Leizu culture and the development of the clothing industry, and plans to build a 5.3-square-kilometer Leizu clothing store. Xincheng Zhishang Industrial Park uses a lean and modern management model to achieve the advantages of low cost and high efficiency in the industry, and strives to build the largest transfer and undertaking base for China’s garment industry.
It is understood that after the first phase of Leizu Garment New City was completed, it attracted first-line companies such as Gejin, Huazino, and New Thinking to settle in Zhishang Industrial Park in a short period of time. It is the number one brand of women’s pants in China. Projects such as Lingxiu Mengshuya, large clothing export company Cathay Apparel, China’s leading underwear brand Aimer, foreign trade production company Alban, and Cotton Doll have also been completed and put into production, and have become the processing centers for many well-known brands such as Disney, Uniqlo, and Jiumuwang.
“The agglomeration effect of Xiping’s textile and garment industry has basically taken shape.” The responsible comrade of the Xiping County Development and Reform Commission said that the government and enterprises cooperated, and the garment industry stimulated the economy and promoted the employment of tens of thousands of people, further enhancing the viability of the garment industry. The ability of sustainable development has created the development characteristics of “Xiping speed, Xiping experience, and Xiping model”.
The garment industry sets the stage to sing “economic drama”
“When I came to Xiping, the atmosphere of enthusiasm and civilization hit my face. This is the hometown of the ‘Silkworm God’ Leizu, and it lives up to its name. It is the birthplace of clothing civilization and has the traditional cultural advantages to develop the textile and clothing industry.” Teng Haijun, general manager of Zhongzhe Clothing Technology Co., Ltd., told reporters that from the start of construction to the launch of production, Zhongzhe Clothing only took less than 4 months. Once again, It confirms the “Xiping Speed”.
Development is the hard truth, and projects are the hard carrier. With the steady implementation of the second phase project of Leizu Garment New City, Xiping County’s leading textile and apparel industry has further strengthened its chain extension and repair capabilities, and has attracted top 500 private enterprises Zhongzhe Group, the textile and garment Leizu Garment New City phase II project and industry Well-known companies such as Yunbat Group, one of the top 100 export companies, and the first women’s clothing brand to be launched on the market, Elles Clothing, have come one after another.
Why did these major garment industry projects choose to invest in Xiping? “Xiping’s long history and profound cultural heritage are unparalleled. The four leaders of Xiping have unparalleled confidence in supporting and developing the garment industry. Xiping’s political ecological environment is unparalleled. Xiping’s various preferential policies to support industrial development are unparalleled across the country.” Henan Li Gang, President of the Provincial Garment Association, proposed the “Four Unparalleled Advantages” of Xiping”” gave the answer, singing the prelude to the “big drama” of the development of the textile and garment industry.
From “goose flying south” to “phoenix returning to the nest”, making money and taking care of the family “do both things right”. For To help garment enterprises solve the problem of difficulty in recruiting and employing workers, Xiping County has firmly established the concept of “recruitment is investment and recruitment is service”, and has thoroughly implemented the “returning phoenixes to their nests” and “sewing plates to the countryside” projects to guide people returning to their hometowns to find jobs nearby, and vigorously Implement the “Ten Thousand Garment Industry Workers Training Plan” and the “Everyone Holds a Certificate and Skilled Henan” construction to ensure that the workers needed by garment enterprises can be recruited, used and retained, and truly achieve “increased enterprise efficiency, increased workers’ income, “Economic Development” goal. Currently, nearly 100,000 people in Xiping County are employed at home.
From “hard power” to “soft environment”, polish the “golden sign” of service. Xiping County actively increases Invest to further improve infrastructure construction and strengthen the carrying capacity, service capacity and attractiveness of industrial clusters; establish a small and micro enterprise loan seed fund management committee in industrial clusters to help enterprises solve financing problems; implement “nanny-style” services and full agency handling system, implement systems such as “one-time processing”, “one-stop processing” and “limited time processing” to create a high-quality development environment.
“In those days, ‘Xiping Tailor’ created a huge industry with one knife and one cut; now , ‘Xiping Clothing’ leads the fashion trend with strict craftsmanship. “The person in charge of the Xiping County Government said that with its unparalleled advantages, solid industrial foundation and increasingly complete industrial chain, the Xiping textile and garment industry is moving from “intelligent manufacturing” to “brand” and is striving to become a tens-billion-level garment industry cluster. The goal is moving forward.
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