Knowing industrial clusters will be very helpful for importers and buyers to find the right suppliers and manufacturers in China, also to identify whether supplier is a factory or trading company. Textiles and apparels industrial clusters are in Zhejiang province, Jiangsu province, Guangdong province. These 3 provinces have full supply chain in garment industry.
In recent years, with the improvement of people’s living standards, and the development of the market economy. With full local government support, China knitwear industry has continued to develop and grow, the knitwear industrial cluster economy has shown a trend of large-scale, clustered development, and competitiveness.
Knitwear plays a quite important role in clothing industry, we all have at least a sweater. There are several famous knitwear cluster zone China, some of them you may hear before. Today i write 7 knitwear cluster zone here, let’s see where they are.
Puyuan town, Tongxiang city, Zhejiang province 浙江桐乡市濮院镇
At present, Puyuan sweater market covers:
- Total area of 1.5 square kilometers.
- Construction area of 860,000 square meters.
- 10 garment trading areas.
- More than 7,000 sales offices.
- 4 supporting markets of foreign trade market.
Wool spinning raw material market, wool yarn market, knitting machinery accessories market. And a national-level wool knitting technology development center, sweater quality inspection center and logistics center, human resources service center, sweater culture media center and other supporting facilities.
The favorable market operating environment has attracted more than 15,000 manufacturers and sellers from all over the country and even abroad. The annual sales of sweaters are nearly 700 million, accounting for more than 50% of the country’s total production. Every year, thousands of domestic and foreign buyers gather in Puyuan to wholesale sweaters, forming an irreplaceable first-class sweater wholesale market in China. As a result, the Puyuan sweater market has become a Chinese sweater distribution center with annual sales of more than 10 billion yuan and high influence.
Puyuan Town, Tongxiang City, Zhejiang Province is the first batch of towns awarded the title of “China’s Sweater Town” by China Textile Industry Association.
The market management committee is making every effort to create a “brand market, integrity market, ecological market, safe market, and harmonious market”, and gradually build the Puyuan sweater market into a product display, research and development design, information service, business office, wholesale and retail sales, A modern international trade city integrating tourism shopping, standard testing and modern logistics. At present, the market renovation project with a total investment nearly 500 million yuan. The high-grade central business district with an area of 350,000 square meters has begun to take shape, and the modern international logistics and warehousing center of New puyuan, covering an area of nearly 200 acres is under construction. The trading market cluster of China is forming, which provides a strong support for the development and prosperity of China’s wool knitting industry.
The multiple knitwear industrial clusters including many huge wholesale markets located in the district, and I’ll introduce as follows:
1 World Trade Center 世贸大厦
Built in 2003, it is a ten-story sweater trading building. It covers an area of more than 9,000 square meters, with a total business area of 47,000 square meters. The World Trade Building opened in July 2004. There are more than 400 shops, with a daily capacity of more than 10,000 passengers. In 2006, the market total annual output value was about 600 million yuan. It is one of the large-scale markets for high-end wool sweaters in Puyuan.
2 International Trade Famous Port国贸明港城
The 28 floors building started construction in 2006 and officially started operation on August 8, 2008. It is currently the tallest building in Puyuan Town, with functions of trade and residence, business exchange, entertainment and leisure. The International Trade Center is the CBD core market of Puyuan sweater market and the fashion and R&D center of local sweaters. The International Trade Center has four floors and is divided into two areas, east and west, with a business area of nearly 40,000 square meters. There are international brand men’s clothing area, boutique men’s wear area, women’s clothing area and cashmere area, almost all types of knitwear you can find. The top floor is equipped with a star business hotel. Its brand stays as much as the World Trade Center.
3 Central Mall 中央商城
Located in the core area of Puyuan sweater market, it has many functions such as business negotiation, brand display, sweater clothing wholesale transaction, business office, catering and leisure. The total construction area of the mall is 125,000 square meters, the first floor: comprehensive sweater wholesale area (relocated to the old market for sweater wholesale); the second floor: the boutique sweater area (brand sweater display and trading area); the third floor: clothing brand area (Sweaters, clothing, cotton T). Positioned in the low-end wool sweater wholesale trading.
Datang town, Zhuji city, Shaoxing city, Zhejiang province 浙江省绍兴诸暨大唐
If you are looking for knitted socks, you can not miss this. Zhuji Datang Socks industrial development fast in these years, it has formed a complete range of socks including machinery manufacturing, production of various raw materials, mass production, dyeing, shaping, packaging, marketing, logistics, etc. An extremely complete sock industrial supply chain. At present, this small town has developed into the world’s largest socks production base, know as “Hometown of China’s socks industry”. 70% of socks in China, one third of the world’s socks made here.
Hengshan town, Wujiang City, Jiangsu province江苏省吴江市横扇镇
The Hengshan knitwear industry originated in the 1970s, started in the 1980s, and developed in the 1990s. At present, a distinct knitwear industrial cluster has been formed. Among the more than 7,000 residents in Hengshan Town, more than 3,500 households are directly engaged in wool sweater production. Among the 2,059 enterprises in Hengshan, there are 2,024 wool sweater enterprises. With 4,500 manual flat knitting machines, 5,000 electric flat knitting machines and 120 computer flat knitting machines. Among them, 62 computerized flat knitting machines are imported from Japan and Italy. HengShan Town has an annual output of 120 million sweaters.
Hengshan sweaters are mainly low grade to medium grade products. At present, 80% of the products are sold in the domestic market(about 10% of the total domestic market share), and 20% of the products are exported to more than 20 countries and regions such as the United States, Russia, and Italy.
Hengshan is famous for wool sweater production in China and other countries. Now it has become the largest wool sweater production base in China, becoming the “hometown of wool sweaters”.
Hengshan Town is currently accelerating the strengthening and expansion of the knitwear economic cluster zone, expanding the agglomeration effect, and enhancing the overall strength and competitive advantage.
The first is to expand the scale and strength of the industry, focusing on supporting 20 enterprises and invigorating 3,000 supporting processing enterprises.
The second is to lengthen the industrial chain. Vigorously attract and develop raw material production enterprises, so that the annual consumption of 30,000 tons of wool yarn can achieve most of the self-sufficiency in the gathering area.
At the same time, some knitting machinery enterprises will be developed to realize local production and sales of machinery and accessories. In addition, Hengshan Town will also introduce foreign advanced equipment and technology, develop a group of finishing and packaging enterprises, improve the grade and appearance of products, and increase the added value of products.
In the process of upgrading the sweater industry in Hengshan Town, it will bring many business opportunities to foreign-funded enterprises engaged in wool yarn, knitting equipment and packaging.
Dalang town, Dongguan city, Guangdong Province 广东省东莞市大朗镇
From the first hand loom to 100,000 computerized flat knitting machines. Starting with technology, in the past 40 years, the Dalang knitwear cluster industry has grown from nothing, from weak to strong, from scattered to cluster, and has become a typical sample of regional industrial cluster development.
Dalang Town, Dongguan City, Guangdong Province has more than 2,000 individual and private woolen knitting companies, with more than 100,000 employees, more than 200,000 mechanical looms, and nearly 300 international most advanced computer knitting machines, forming a relatively complete industrial system for sweater production.
Dalang sweaters are mainly mid-range, taking into account both high-end and low-end. More than 40% of the products are sold to Europe, America, Japan, Australia, Southeast Asia and other international markets. On the basis of building a characteristic woolen sweater town, Dalang Town will strive to build Guangdong’s largest wool knitting product and raw material distribution center—Guangdong sweater knitting market, and build a logistics center and wool knitting trade city. Dalang Town hopes to recreate the advantages of the wool sweater industry with the advantages of a modern professional market.
Waisha town, Shantou city, Guangdong province 广东省汕头市外砂镇
Waisha town mainly making thicker sweater, it’s the best Complementary with Dalang town, Dongguan, The products involve hand hooks, stick needles (hand-woven) and various needle computers, beaded embroidery, hats, scarves, shawls, cloaks, gloves, sleeves, all kinds of computer machines are complete, good at the whole hand crochet, stick needles, beading, embroidery, crafts and other Chaoshan characteristics, enjoy a good reputation in the domestic sweater industry.
Nanan city, Quanzhou , Fujian province 福建泉州南安
“The overall scale of Fujian’s knitting industry ranks fifth in China, after Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Shandong.
They pay more attention to the design, Mainly producing own brand and OEM sweaters, specially in men’s sweater and kid’s sweater.
Ordos, Inner Mongolia 内蒙古鄂尔多斯
Famous city know for cashmere, we know that the cashmere wool raw material from Inner Mongolia, so the local sweater production mainly are wool sweaters and cashmere wool sweaters.
Development direction and characteristics: Take advantage of the unique advantages of goat breeding, cashmere textile with early history, and proximity to capital of China Beijing, etc., to develop northern china markets such as Beijing, and export to overseas markets.
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Different knitwear cluster zone have their advantages and disadvantages, if your order quantity is low, i will suggest you to buy directly from the wholesale markets, they are available in style, color and size. If your order quantity can meet the MOQ, you can ask the sweater factory for a quote, also you can contact us for free quote.