A Pair Of Socks Goes All Over The World

Beijing was very enthusiastic in August. The latest design socks displayed by the models are as pleasant as wearing the beautiful summer on your body.

This time, the 2023 / 2024 Chinese sock fashion trend release show, jointly organized by China Knitting Industry Association and Datang sub district office of Zhuji Municipal People's government, has four series: sprouting, co developing, extending and guarding. The show gathers the popular products of many enterprises in Datang socks industry, and combines the international popular hot spots and the core R & D products of Datang socks industry.

Zhuji City, Zhejiang Province, "steady progress and quality improvement" series of activities promotion conference was held in Beijing. The meeting announced that the 16th China Datang International socks Expo will be held in Zhuji, the beautiful hometown of Xishi, from September 6 to 8. It is understood that in addition to presenting the future trend of China's sock industry, this year's sock Expo will show the transformation of Datang's sock industry from "sock industry" to "sock art" with more diversified exhibition contents.

　　 A pair of socks goes all over the world

Socks industry covers half of the towns and streets in Zhuji, which is the dominant industry and competitive product of Zhuji, accounting for 70% of the national output and 35% of the world's annual output. The center of Zhuji socks industry is located in the southwest of Zhuji in the Tang Dynasty. At present, Zhuji City has formed an industrial chain with Datang street as the center, radiating around 9 towns and streets, integrating manufacturing intelligence, design customization, cluster collaboration and marketing networking, which can provide "one-stop" design, manufacturing and procurement services for global hosiery suppliers.

The world socks industry looks at China, and China looks at Datang. Datang Hosiery Industry originated in the early 1970s. After more than 40 years of development, from "hand hosiery machine, basket Hawking" to rush to buy, from imitation to innovation, from the minimum of less than 10 cents to the regional brand value of 110 billion yuan, Datang socks industry has grown from a lumpy industry to a collection of raw materials, hosiery machines, hosiery weaving, hosiery weaving, etc Market and other complete industrial chain of modern industrial clusters. Datang street has a registered population of 76000, attracting more than 110000 migrant workers, of whom more than 80% are engaged in the sock industry. At present, the per capita income of employees is more than 150000 yuan.

How is the sock industry known by more people? Since 1999, China Datang International socks Expo has become an important window for Datang socks industry to show its image to the world, and it is the longest large-scale exposition of socks industry.

Chen Dapeng, vice president of China Textile Industry Federation and President of China Garment Association, said that since the 14th sock Expo, Datang sock Expo has been constantly improving its functional orientation, constantly carrying out market-oriented exploration, constantly improving its professional service level, promoting exchanges and docking between entrepreneurs and designers in the sock industry at home and abroad, and steadily walking at the forefront of fashion and fashion trends, It provides opportunities for well-known enterprises and buyers at home and abroad to understand and open up the Chinese market, and also helps to improve the independent innovation ability and the overall level of China's socks industry.

Hong Dongying, President of Zhuji socks industry association and founder of Zhejiang socks industry Co., Ltd., admitted that the successful holding of previous sock Expo not only attracted businessmen from all over the world, but also brought high-quality customers and large orders to sock enterprises, and promoted the high-quality development of socks industry in Zhuji.

　　 Exhibition promotes the image of Sox City

"In the first half of the year, the economic growth of Zhuji City was higher than that of the whole country and the whole province, and a high score answer sheet was handed over to strive for excellence." Zhang Kunlun, mayor of Zhuji City, announced at the press conference that Zhuji City will hold 2022 World pearl conference, 2022 Shanghai (summer) jewelry exhibition (Zhuji station), 16th China Datang International sock industry expo, 2022 Zhuji Development Conference and other activities in succession this year, In order to create high-quality development in Zhejiang Province and build a common prosperity demonstration area, Zhuji model helps to empower.

How to deal with the challenges of the new era? From September 6 to 8, the 16th China Datang International socks Expo will be held in Zhuji international trade city. This year's Sox Expo integrates the flow resources of all parties and gives full play to the advantages of specialized exhibition. Both the scale and the flow of exhibitors are the highest in all previous years. With an area of 15000 square meters and more than 500 booths, the exhibition is expected to attract nearly 200 high-quality exhibitors and more than 10000 visitors.

According to Chen Yifeng, vice mayor of Zhuji City, the content of this sock Expo is diversified, including six activities, including the third "Datang Cup" international socks industry machinery equipment competition, Zhuji socks industry belt cross-border e-commerce development seminar, yunshang sock Expo, Shaoxing cross-border e-commerce industry development forum, socks industry brain app release activities, socks industry supply chain products exhibition and sales Industrial digitization, equipment automation, sales diversification and other aspects show the development achievements of socks industry in Zhuji.

In addition, another highlight of the 16th China Datang International socks Expo was the first time that Shanghai International socks industry procurement fair was held at the same time. Shanghai International socks Trade Fair is a well-known professional trade fair at home and abroad. It has always been committed to serving global sock industry enterprises and building an efficient and convenient trade exchange platform for exhibitors and purchasers.

Chen Dapeng said that the joint exhibition will effectively integrate the two platforms and achieve information exchange and resource sharing. It will provide more opportunities for exchanges and cooperation between the sock industry at home and abroad, further promote the vigorous economic development of sock industry, and enhance the beautiful image of Zhuji as an "international sock city".

　　 "Socks industry brain" advantage

In recent years, Zhuji City has accelerated the digital transformation of the whole process from design, proofing to weaving, sewing, shaping, packaging, etc., and continuously improves the level of Intelligent Manufacturing in the industry. It has set up a banner of transformation and upgrading of traditional industries in China.

Hong Dongying, President of Zhuji socks industry association and founder of Zhejiang socks industry Co., Ltd., said that Datang socks industry has accumulated three advantages after several generations' efforts. The advantage of industrial chain is synergy. The core competitiveness of Datang socks industry is the complete industrial chain. The world's largest socks production base, the world's largest socks logistics center, the world's largest intelligent equipment production base for socks industry, and global socks art design center can provide "one-stop" procurement services for global customers. The second is the number intelligence advantage of the production chain. At present, Datang is the largest production base of knitting, sewing and turning hosiery machines in the world, with an annual production capacity of more than 10000 sets. Next, there is the in-depth construction and application of socks industry brain to ensure that Datang socks industry will continue to consolidate its global leading position in the future development. The third is the incubation advantage of innovation chain. With the in-depth construction and application of the socks industry brain, the continuous improvement of the socks industry innovation service complex, and the continuous improvement of the role of socks industry engineers in Collaborative Innovation Center, Datang socks industry will form an increasingly powerful think tank for the sock industry, and the incubation strength advantages in innovation, R & D and design of Datang socks industry will become more and more obvious.

"The implementation of digital intelligent transformation has brought three obvious benefits to the traditional sock industry. One is the improvement of production efficiency, the second is the reduction of production loss, and the third is the obvious enhancement of market competitiveness." Hong Dongying gave an example to reporters that the order change needs to be changed. Originally, the machine needs to be changed one by one. Each hosiery machine needs more than 10 minutes, and 300 sets means 300 10 minutes. Now, after the digital and intelligent transformation, because it is online, 300 machines can be modified at one time, which greatly saves labor costs and improves production capacity. In addition, the error rate is significantly reduced and the production is more accurate after digital intelligence is involved in all stages of production and inventory. In addition, the priority of order delivery is fast delivery. After the implementation of digital intelligence, the response speed of order delivery is accelerated.

"Now many enterprises in Datang socks industry have embarked on the road of digital intelligence development, and the next step is the deep integration of the entire industrial chain." Hong Dongying told reporters that at present, "socks industry brain" has been successfully selected into the second batch of industrial brain construction list in Zhejiang Province. It is believed that with the opening of application scenarios such as design collaboration and shared factory, the continuous improvement of digital intelligence structure of "socks industry brain + enterprise cerebellum", Datang socks industry's whole industry chain advantages and joint strength advantages will be more obvious.

Danyang, China