The country's largest production base of sweater

After engaging in the seventies township to do,learning and research," a combination of,
engage in joint venture eighties, nineties engage instrengthen basic research, new product
private three stages of development, the city'sdevelopment, new technology applications as well
sweater industry is developing rapidly, and formedas the transformation to enhance scientific and
a fan-centered cross-regional cluster developmenttechnological content of products, an increase of
trend, the success of building sweater industry,value-added products. Product R & D Center
the economy of the plate.in the service of product development for SMEs
First, sweater status of cluster developmenthas played a larger role.
(A) "swarming" development, begun to take3, create a great brand strength. Operation can
shape.increase the brand value-added products from the
Wujiang City, sweater industry began in the lastbrands profits more than 30%, while production is
century, 70's, mid-and late 90's large-scaleonly 10-15% processing fee. Hengshan Town, to
development, the recent three years, surgingencourage enterprises to register the product
wave of private capital investment to furthertrademark. Has also organized special personnel
accelerate the accumulation and development ofcollected prizes trademark symbol, trademark of
the industry. Wujiang sweater industry has now aa good reward. For creating jobs, corporate
considerable overall size, with flat knitting machinestrademarks to give key support to help striving
45093 Taiwan, employing more than 40,000, ofto provinces, municipalities and brand, or
which more than 20,000 migrant workers. Onlywell-known trademarks, well-known trademarks.
Hengshan Township, which have a horizontal planeA registered trademark of the company now
nearly 30,000 units, electric knitting machine,applying for up to 18 home and emerged red
computerized flat knitting machine of more thanroses knitted clothing, Kinmen and Matsu sweater,
2000 units, of which more than 300,000 yuanknitted garment such as a large number of Sanli
price of computer flat knitting machine nearly 100sweater scale enterprises, and established the
units, more than 7,000 households in the townthree benefits, Kinmen and Matsu, Hongshun, the
there are more than 3600 families directlyMenorah, Lin Fang, snow-capped mountains, BMW
engaged in sweater production, more than 1,000and some other brand sweater, "123" project
households in sweater industry-related supportingbear fruit.
services. As of August 2003 million yuan in4, large export-oriented development efforts.
investment of more than 5 sweater enterprises,Investment Hengshan Town, has reinforced its
500 million or above are 11, 100 million or aboveefforts, through preferential policies and to
are more than 500, Ultra 100 million annualstrengthen efforts to attract Guangdong
sweater, the average daily have hundreds ofProvince, Wenzhou and other places merchants,
thousands of sweaters on the market, theand Japan, South Korea and Taiwan businessmen
products are exported to all over the country andto the city settled in the town of sweater
the United States, Russia, the Czech Republic,production centers, but also to attract enterprises
Spain and other countries and Hong Kong region,to invest in supporting factory, or set up offices.
with annual sales exceeding 1.5 billion.Created a better fit sweater good atmosphere
(B), along the related industries, and economicfor industrial development, so that to further
prosperity.strengthen Wujiang sweater industry advantage.
Sweater industry development led to a leap inThird, the development of industrial clusters
cross-fan industrial economy, and now the townsweater Forecast
has formed a cross-pin fan textiles, jet weaving,(A), a huge potential demand for products
dyeing chemicals, machinery, casting a number ofBusiness Information Center, according to national
characteristics of the industry, tertiary industrykey large-scale retail enterprise commodity sales
also will continue to develop. Sweater industry hasstatistics, in 2002 annual sales of cashmere and
also led to the rapid development of the localwool sweater 16.557 million, an increase of 7.3%.
farmers become rich. 2002 Hengshan Town,Although the rise of cashmere sweater to
annual per capita income of 8,000 yuan per capitasweater market, a big impact, but the original
deposits, more than 17,000 yuan, the town iscashmere cashmere production is low, yarn
currently 30% of households household assetsstrength is not enough, do not wear, easy care
more than 1 million yuan, farmers villa rate ofand the price is high, not easy to become a mass
35%. In the famous village of Leaf sweaterproduct, so it is no substitute for sweaters.
professional home port, all port, She HarborSweater Market is still a not yet fully tapped, and
Village, the peasants per capita income reachedthe largest market in the ascendant. In addition,
20,000 yuan each year, there is one in every twoChina is a populous country, consumption,
households has played a villa built.diversification, and rural clothing high demand.
(C), pay attention to the scale of development,Existing market is not, "15" period average annual
and to build a carrier.growth of 12 million people nationwide each year
At present, the Wujiang Hengshan the sweaterthere are 40 million rural laborers to cities, levels
industry, already constituted by the cottage toof consumption continue to improve, and carries a
the large-scale development, from manual tohuge market potential. Coupled with China's textile
mechanized evolution, from materials processingproducts in the international arena more
to enhance the brand a new trend, and fromcompetitive, export channel for smooth, textile
Italy, Japan, South Korea, the introduction ofexports. As the domestic and international market
advanced computer knitting machine upgrade itshas great potential, as long as low-cost basis, to
products. In order to further enlarge andfurther improve quality, expand the assortment
strengthen the economic section sweater,to maximize meet customer needs, sweater
expanding concentration effect, Hengshan Town,industry outlook remains very broad.
Wujiang City, has also developed an knitwear(B) changes in market demand, greater
Science and Technology Park, foreign investmentThe face of increasingly fierce competition in the
zone, flag the north private development zone,industry and the great potential of product
export-oriented Agricultural Comprehensivedemand, market competition cardigan way the
Development Demonstration Garden and otherchanges in response to market demand, raw
"Big Four park, "for economic development tomaterial from the fight, that price into a fight
build a new carrier. Such as needle Textile Sciencecraft, fight style, and to fashion, personalized
and Technology Park, focusing on thedevelopment.
development of high-grade wool sweater, textileChanges in the market the opportunity to nurture
processing park at the present have been settledthe business, as people's living standards continue
more than 10 enterprises, investment of hundredto improve and continuously improve the
million. And covers an area of 33,000 squareaesthetic point of view, clothing fashion trend
meters, invested 31 million yuan in Jiangsubecomes increasingly obvious. Sweater as a
horizontal fan sweater Mall, is also graduallyclothing product, its consumer focus is gradually
becoming a production base for cross-sellingshifted from the technical content of the fashion
sweater fan window and convergence of nationalcontent. Coat-oriented, fashion-oriented,
bond markets for the sale sweater.personalized, diversified, practical, serialization is the
(D), the Government's strong support, marchingsweater market development trend. Sweater
forward despite difficulties.pattern design, fabric choice is particularly
Cross fan sweater manufacturers who wish toimportant, while low-volume, multi-variety
engage Although many, but the scale is not large.production will gradually replace the mass-type
In the more than 3600 households in Hengshanindustrial production. With the popularity of apparel
Town, sweater manufacturing enterprises, 90%fashion trends, consumer more value the brand
or more with only dozens of flat knitting machinesweater, the pursuit of brand-name effects.
is the "front shop, back factory" type of family(C), the increasingly fierce competition in the
workshops. This cottage-style enterprise technicalindustry
force is relatively weak, the product grade is notAt present, some cashmere sweaters and
high, in the fierce market competition are losingprocessing enterprises by virtue of its brand
the battle. In addition, the horizontal fan sweaterstrength and production base, equipment and
out of their own production more than 90% areother advantages, began to have entered the
shipped to the field to sell, mainly in Zhejiang andfield of sweater. Such as the Tianshan textiles,
Changshu, China is now the largest distributingJinyu Group, Shengxuerong and Ordos through
center of Zhejiang Puyuan cardigan sweaterthe listing and placement of shares to raise a lot
market, which 70% of the sweater is horizontalof money, have an extension of the sweater
fan production. The production part of the profitsmarket. Inner Mongolia Erdos sweater in addition
of much less than sales of links, rather than as ato the current production base of production, the
production base for knitted sweater distributionZhejiang many enterprises are still OEM. At
base, horizontal fan sweater is often more of thepresent, China's sweater market demand, but the
profits of producers to sell business retention.collection of a large number of medium and low
Potential Xiaoli thin, so that cross-fan sweaterbrand, many well-known brand cashmere industry
industry in facing the dilemma of sustainablewill no doubt be further exacerbated sweater to
development.join competition in the market, it is bound pattern
In view of this situation, Hengshan Town Party,sweater market in 3-5 years redrawn. At the
the Government launched in 2002 to "start asame time as the imported goods to reduce
market, focusing on support for 20 mid-rangetariffs, more foreign brands wool knitted
scale enterprises, enlivening the 3000 supportinggarments to enter the Chinese market.
enterprise" as the main content of the "123"Therefore, in future the pattern of domestic wool
project. Know the real situation in the queue,knitted apparel market is bound to change,
based on a number of listed companies have ameaning competition will become more intense.
certain strength training as a key target, andDomestic wool knitted apparel, wool, wool blend
actively guide them onto the scale, brand-oriented,products the proportion of large, big demand for
export-oriented development path, and strive towool, while wool mainly rely on imports. Present
build 10 of a certain scale and global brandworld wool prices up, supply has decreased a
awareness, product quality to the high growthgreat impact on the industry.
company, and through these enterprises to4, sweater cluster development related to the
improve their market reputation horizontal fanproposed
sweater to upgrade the whole industry grade.(A), to strengthen scientific and technological
The Government has also selected 20research and development and training
medium-sized family-owned enterprises, efforts to1, established R & D center. Quality is the life
support the company allowed to change theof the product, the product is the enterprise's life.
mode of operation. For a wide range of smallOne is necessary to guide enterprises to establish
amount of more than 3000 families supportingtheir own R & D center, to formulate
home-based production households, Hengshanappropriate policies to support them, and gradually
Township proposes to change family workshopsextend it to expand, so that key enterprises
for the joint household production, supporting thehave this kind of institution, and constantly
production of corporate production in variousenhance its development capabilities. Two
forms so as to win the market.townships in the backbone of the establishment
Second, sweater industry cluster analysis of theof R & D center, the center of the
characteristics of the development offormation of joint-stock, township organizations,
(A), family-run workshop, is developing rapidlycivil society-based, the city support, self-financing.
The late 70s of last century, cross-townColleges, universities and scientific research linked
hardware factory fan purchased three setsto new compensation for the use, the city rating
knitting machine, and from Shanghai invitedincentives to promote the stable development of
"technical aid" and started to set foot in sweaterR & D center, and gradually to reach in order
production, build a new Knitting Factory openedto guide product development, market
since then for the horizontal fan who opened theconsumption purposes.
door to prosperity . Sweater industry, with less2, create a staff training center. The steady
investment and quick results to build a newdevelopment of an industry and the steady
Knitting Factory in the success of converting theimprovement of skills of workers is closely related
second year in succession a number of villagesto. As the Wujiang Silk industry, like Suzhou Silk
have played a number of organized collectiveInstitute of Technology and the Wujiang Silk
nature of the sweater factory. In 1988 the townWujiang secondary to the development of silk
had four township and sweater factory, villageindustry, a lot of talent, effectively promoted the
sweater factory 14, 540 employees, when thesilk industry. It is therefore recommended by the
horizontal fan sweater bring 1.06 million profit. TheGovernment allocated some funding to Wujiang
sweater industry to really take in the transversevocational secondary schools as a base for
fans "swarming", but also due to involvement ofschool-enterprise linked to the backbone for the
private capital. The late 80s, a number ofsweater business enterprise training to carry out
collective enterprises of the supply and marketingvarious forms of technician training courses to
staff, managers have to seek out ofimprove the quality of workers to meet growing
enterprise-development, and run from the privateproduction needs.
woolen sweater factory. Arrivals into a horizontal(B), to achieve 4 to enhance
fan sweater major industrial force in the1, vigorously strengthen technological innovation,
development of the scale from the initial one orefforts to improve the equipment level. Hand
two sets of flat knitting machine and gradually rollKnitting Machine exhaustion due to large,
growth and expansion into the dozens, whilelabor-intensive, while the electric knitting machine
these people bring friends and relatives, neighborsprecision is poor, the flexibility is not enough, so
sweater with the development of production andthe application of computer flat knitting machine
processing. There are "sweater first village," saidhas become an inevitable trend of development
the leaf village, home to Hong Kong more thanof the industry sweater. The introduction of
90% of rural households engaged in production orcomputerized flat knitting machine has many
to engage with the cardigan sweater industry,advantages: (1) to improve the staff working
related industries, the village has more than 3,000environment; (2) reduce the labor intensity of
types of flat knitting machines, annual output ofworkers; (3) improve the weaving efficiency; (4)
wool T-shirt 10 million, per capita annual income ofsignificantly reduced labor costs; (5) to improve
20,000 yuan Chao. This cottage type of sweaterproduct quality and grades. In addition, with
production line in the transverse fan since theadvanced computer flat knitting machine
sweater industry, through this way, and horizontalequipment, easy to pass, including the ISO9000
fan in people with a wide range. Sweater industry,quality system, ISO14000 environmental
the "sparks" in the town and eventually became aprotection system, and the international system
"Liaoyuanzhishi."of certification, for the horizontal fan sweater to
(B), low-cost mode of operation, competitiveremove barriers to the export trade, and pave
Represented by Wujiang Hengshan sweaterthe way; around the horizontal plane of the
industry, mainly based on cottage industrytechnological transformation, dyeing equipment
developed. Although a weak foundation, poormust also be increased accordingly. Advanced
foundation, but there are also some uniqueequipment to be used to achieve the same inside
advantages, namely low cost, low cost, a similarand outside the foreign package dyeing, there is
sweater than other companies low 2 - 4 Yuan.no color difference levels, to meet the future
Others can not do business at a loss, they notneeds of yarn-dyed; into a T-shirt dyeing and
only can do can make money, which has afinishing should be enhanced at the current level.
considerable competitive edge. Facts have provedFor shrinkage strictly controlled within the
that sweater industry, Wujiang City, the productallowable range to prevent uncontrolled, loose and
positioning in the middle and low this level, relyingtight.
on Tongxiang Puyuan, Changshu strokes and2, and actively support key enterprises to greatly
other mall-based sweater market for the sale ofenhance enterprise scale. Hengshan Town,
this strategy was successful. Cross fan sweaterWujiang City, Wuzhong District Tomura are two
currently sells mainly, accounting for about 80%different types of sweater production base. 2
of the total, located in small cities and rural areastown started similar joint venture with Shanghai
of this country's largest consumer group. Tothe same way, but nineties began to develop
meet the different materials, different grades andways to start is different. Zhejiang Hengshan to
the various seasons of the productionthe line to further develop family sweater
requirements, horizontal fan sweater andproduction in full swing to develop industry,
processing enterprises to configure 5-pin to 14 pinoverwhelming large-scale development. And
flat knitting machines and many otherTomura collective industry was mainly horizontal
specifications of raw materials from the originalfan can not compete, so run port, engage in
acrylic, rabbit wool to the current all-wool worstedforeign trade, improve the level of development.
ice hemp, cashmere and many other types ofSo far, the cross-fan device called the three "3":
low-level popular with consumers.that is more than 30 high-end computerized flat
(C), cluster development, integrated high -knitting machine, 3000 electric knitting machine,
With a series of cases of the introduction of30,000 hand-knitting machine. And Tomura 8000
relevant policies, Wujiang Hengshan sweaterhand-knitting machine, sweater more than 20
industry "cake" bigger and bigger, before andenterprises, more than 10 backbone enterprises.
after the matching sweater manufacturingThe results of two towns is almost sold, but the
enterprises gradually formed. Hengshan Town, onsharp annual interest vary widely, cross-fan's
the point of view, has now formed from thelargest sweater company handed over 500,000
spinning, dyeing, sand wash, printing, knitting,yuan revenue, Tomura largest enterprises handed
packaging, production, supply and consignment toover 5 million yuan tax revenue. Therefore, the
the sale of one-stop service system, and theneed to do larger and stronger city's sweater
supporting facilities have improved, so that theindustry, promoting the sweater industry cluster
owners of those engaged in sweater productiondevelopment, we must cultivate a number of
achieved sales of both finished products from rawprofit and tax of 100 million yuan of the
materials to be able to "stay at home." Atbackbone, making them driven export of
present cross-town fans a woolen mill,products to drive small businesses and cottage
polyurethane-coated factory 2, printing and dyeingindustries go hand in hand, the formation of large,
processing enterprises 5, sweaters retail outletmedium and small three levels of development,
operated ultra-100, the town most of the peoplehas become imperative.
engaged in the production associated with the3, efforts to expand markets and enhance
sweater work. Wujiang's sweater industry has toproduct grade as soon as possible. In order to
form a horizontal fan-centric, a temple in Hongchange the city's sweater domestic and export
Kong, Ping Wang, Mei Yan, eight are, Taoyuan andlow-end products and high-end products are a one
other towns echoes a regional trade blocks,leg shorter leg length the status quo, we must do
showing the characteristics of the regionalthe following three tasks. A need to vigorously
economy, there are also quite well-known acrossdevelop the international market, the
the country. Wujiang sweater industry is currentlyestablishment of new sales platform; 2 to
on the basis of its own characteristics, take thedetermine the new consumer goals, brands and
brand, large-scale development. "123"create brand names and create a new consumer
implementation of the project will allow bothlevel; 3 to speed up product development efforts,
horizontal fan sweater industry, "aircraft carrier",and actively guide the market consumption, and
also "joint fleet", and change the original loose,efforts to change raw materials, styles , printing
"fragmentation" in a loose cluster of closeand dyeing the three "old faces" as soon as
enterprise "joint operations" strategicpossible to enhance product grades.
alliance-based enterprise cluster , so that horizontal4, emancipating the mind and the difficulties, and
fan sweater market competitiveness greatlycomprehensively improve the quality of personnel.
enhanced.First of all, building owners, we should emancipate
(D), the work of a solid forceful, obvious effectour minds, to overcome the "little wealth that is
1, support for greater efforts in technicalfull", "chipping away" of small-thinking, open-minded
innovation. Municipal enterprise technologicalto continue to accelerate development; 2 to "dare
progress in the establishment of a support fundto vie with one another" and accelerate the
to the introduction of advanced technology, totechnological transformation, to snatch the market
give a certain percentage of interest paymentshigh ground ; 3 to "press ahead despite
on loans. All relevant departments to activelydifficulties," focus on improving the quality of the
seek up various preferential policies to supportowners. Secondly, we must strive to improve
enterprises and effectively promoted thestaff quality, strengthen the introduction and
cross-fan sweater cluster development.cultivation of talents, it would be difficult to adapt
2, greater efforts in research and development.to high-end products for export and production
Hengshan Town, is currently R & D centerneeds.
has been established through the "production,