If we summarize the innovative development model of the textile industry cluster in the past three years, Zhejiang Lanxi should be the leading example of intelligent manufacturing upgrading. In terms of promoting the industrial development of clusters, Lanxi changed the previous “high-end” model of “intelligent manufacturing” and used effective upgrading of small and medium-sized enterprises to leverage the transformation of clusters, allowing the development of Lanxi’s textile industry to release new energy and brilliance.
After three years of intensive “intelligent reform and upgrading”, Zhejiang Lanxi has become one of the textile industry clusters that has the deepest understanding of “intelligent manufacturing” and the most effective actions. This upgrade battle has affected almost all of Lanxi’s industrial resources and has also resulted in new development for the cluster.
Rebirth of Lanxi
As a cluster that mainly focuses on cotton textiles and has gradually formed a relatively complete industrial chain such as spinning, weaving, printing and dyeing, and garments, Lanxi has the title of “China’s Famous Weaving City” “, “China Textile Industry Base”, “China Denim Fabric Export Co-construction Base” and other 11 national and provincial gold business cards, the industrial characteristics and advantages are very obvious. In 2021, the output value of enterprises above designated size in the cluster will be approximately 26 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of approximately 20%, with a profit of 466 million yuan, an average tax revenue of 130,000 yuan per mu, 5 “specialized, special and innovative” small and medium-sized enterprises, and 1 “little giant” enterprise.
It is understood that Lanxi City currently has more than 500 private textile enterprises, and a number of group-type leading enterprises such as the “Wanzhou Series”, “Yingqi Series”, and “Weichen Series” have emerged, and in Segments such as spinning, weaving, printing and dyeing, clothing and home textile end products, and industrial textiles have gradually formed new advantages. Lanxi has entered a new development pattern featuring cotton textiles and using clustering as a competitive advantage.
In 2021, 13 companies including Wanzhou, Lima Yunshan, and Jinsuo were on the list of the top 100 companies in the national cotton textile industry in 2020. The number of Lanxi companies shortlisted for the top 100 list this year was higher than that of the previous year. 2 new ones were added. The rankings of Wanzhou Textile, Xinhai Textile, Qixing Textile, and Weichen Textile in the top 100 list in 2020 have all improved significantly compared with the previous year. At the same time, three companies, Jinsuo, Xinlan, and Tengma, have also been successfully shortlisted. In 2020, the list of the top 15 companies in the country in terms of main business income of denim products ranks 2nd, 3rd and 11th respectively. Currently, there are 56 companies in the cluster with operating income of more than 100 million yuan, and 13 companies with operating income exceeding 1 billion yuan.
Today’s Lanxi textile industry has shown a healthy development state of “small businesses, large groups”, “small products, large industries”. The scale of the regional industrial economy is increasing year by year. The output of pure cotton stretch casual fabrics ranks among the top in the country, the output of denim ranks first in Zhejiang Province, and the total output of various towels ranks among the top counties and cities at the same level in the country. Lanxi has demonstrated the coordinated development of the textile industry on a large scale. new advantages.
Strong advantages based on characteristics
Lanxi is comprehensively promoting the transformation and upgrading of the regional textile industry, from diversifying products, to upgrading equipment technology in point, line and surface, to building R&D and innovation capabilities , the sustainable development capabilities of Lanxi textile industry continue to improve.
In terms of product innovation, we continue to introduce new products. Our products have evolved from a single cotton fabric in the past to the current parallel development of cotton, elastic, casual and other specialty fabrics. It is understood that Lanxi’s cotton casual elastic fabric currently occupies a very high share in the domestic market, and has formed a cluster brand effect of “Look for Lanxi for stretch fabrics” in key fabric markets such as Guangdong and Fujian. In addition, Lanxi has also made new improvements in yarn-dyed fabrics, industrial fabrics, functional fabrics and other products. At the same time, in terms of raw material selection, from the original pure cotton to the widespread use of linen, Tencel and other fibers, the cluster’s product categories have also been greatly enriched.
In terms of equipment upgrading, the level of automation, digitization and intelligence of the equipment in the spinning, weaving and other production links of the cluster enterprises has been continuously improved, and many world-class equipment have been widely used in the cluster. Taking Toyota air-jet looms as an example, there are nearly 20,000 units in the region, accounting for a very large proportion of Toyota’s domestic sales of air-jet looms. In the spinning process, Lanxi Spinning Enterprise currently employs less than 20 people per 10,000 spindles, which is at the advanced level in the country.
In terms of cultivating innovative capabilities, Lanxi has signed industry-university-research cooperation agreements with 8 major domestic textile research institutions such as Donghua University, Tianjin University of Technology, and Zhejiang Sci-Tech University; it has also established cooperation agreements with the Zhejiang Textile Engineering Society. Lanxi Textile Industry Association Enterprise Consortium; established Lanxi Textile Research Institute in cooperation with Zhejiang Science and Technology University. At present, Lanxi Textile Industry has 38 national-level high-tech enterprises, 17 provincial-level high-tech enterprise R&D centers, 5 provincial-level enterprise research institutes, 65 provincial-level technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises, and 4 provincial-level enterprise technology centers. Zhejiang Heyi Weaving Co., Ltd. was selected into the second batch of national-level specialized and new “little giant” enterprises by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology; in 2021, Zhejiang Xinlan Textile Co., Ltd. and Zhejiang Jiushun Textile Co., Ltd.’s “key technology for the preparation of vortex-spun warp-stretch denim fabrics” and Industrialization” project won the first prize of Science and Technology Progress Award of China Textile Industry Federation.
Lanxi Textile Industry relies on the continuous upgrading of regional characteristic industries to strengthen the industrial advantages of the cluster.
Strengthening and replenishing the chain and optimizing the industry
In order to enhance the comprehensive strength of the Lanxi textile industry, the cluster has adjusted and optimized the industrial structure, from the original weaving industry to one with both industry chains. The end-to-end extension will increase the improvement of spinning and terminal product links, and the cluster industry chain will gradually become more complete and the industrial structure will become more reasonable. The regional government aims at the shortcomings of the development of the cluster textile industry and carries out the extension and differentiated development of the textile industry chainThere are more than 20,000 machines and equipment.
Second, create the brain of Lanxi weaving (cotton textile) industry. Focusing on the goal of “based on Lanxi, covering the entire province, and serving the entire industry”, relying on the government industrial governance platform, enterprise digital empowerment platform, and public service value-added platform, we will create an industrial brain 1.0 for the weaving (cotton textile) industry, tailor-made for Lanxi enterprises Digital solutions promote the enterprise’s core business and key equipment on the cloud platform to achieve intensive, efficient, dynamic optimization, safety, reliability, green and low-carbon production processes, empowering the high-quality development of Lanxi industry.
Third, accelerate the construction of the textile supply chain platform around stabilizing supply, reducing costs and financial innovation. On the one hand, we should build a platform centralized procurement model and establish platform advantages by positioning mid-to-high-end yarn brands, profit-sharing enterprises, fast warehousing and logistics, etc., so that the platform can truly be implemented in the physical business model; on the other hand, reduce corporate operating costs and carry out Inventory pledge, bill pool, letter of credit and other financial services should optimize corporate payment methods and reduce comprehensive production costs; thirdly, promote financial innovation and explore credit finance models based on the establishment of industrial data platforms to achieve real operating conditions of enterprises. based financing model.
Fourth, accelerate the construction of the fashion textile technology (printing and dyeing) industrial park. Give full play to the advantages of the platform, and on the basis of comprehensively sorting out the Lanxi textile industry chain, open up the breakpoints and blocking points in the printing and dyeing and other links of Lanxi City’s textile industry chain, effectively promote the iterative upgrading of Lanxi City’s textile industry chain, and ultimately realize the cluster textile industry chain Solid and strong link goals.
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