"We have never directly connected with Dandong clothing brand before. This is our first step to enter this market. The on-site interaction between garment enterprises and us is very positive. Du Jiexin, general manager of Shaoxing Jialilong Textile Co., Ltd. was full of confidence to further develop the Dandong market at the "Silk Road Keqiao · Cover the whole World" meeting held on March 9.

At the event site, nearly 30 well-known enterprises in Keqiao, such as "Zhongduo Holding", "Xinayanlong Textile", "Yangshi Textile", and nearly 100 Dandong clothing brands, clothing processing plants, designers and fabric wholesalers, such as "Huayang Textile", "Xinfei Clothing" and "Kunji Clothing", carried out accurate on-site docking, accelerating the interaction and cooperation between the two major clusters of industries in the north and south, and further smoothing the domestic textile cycle.

As one of the "Top ten garment enterprises" in Liaoning Province, Dandong Huayang Textile mainly purchased knitted, woven and sweater fabrics in this meeting. Yu Wenfu, general manager, said that the company has been working closely with Keqiao, and nearly 70 percent of the suppliers in the knitting department alone are Keqiao enterprises. "Because we have fixed partners for a long time, we rarely participate in matchmaking meetings. This time, we also focus on the innovation ability and development potential of Keqiao market. Business managers of different departments on site are actively docking with Keqiao enterprises."

In recent years, Keqiao is speeding up the construction of more modern, more open, more fashionable, more competitive "international textile city", adhere to the open promotion as a magic talisman, strive to cultivate the textile "market + industry + scientific innovation" three advantages into "three heights", build "five centers" in the textile field, continue to promote the "Silk Road Keqiao · the whole world" action. Build a high-quality platform for communication, exhibition and promotion with the national textile cluster and the world's important textile countries.

Cluster development is the prominent feature of Liaoning textile and garment industry. In recent years, Dandong, known as the "southern part of the North", aims to revive the prosperity of the famous light industry, and speeds up the transformation and upgrading of the traditional advantageous industry of textile and clothing. It is gradually transforming from the single processing of imported materials and OEM production to the cooperation with well-known brand enterprises and the initiative to build its own brand. The whole industry is at a key stage of upgrading and transformation.

At present, Keqiao and Dandong north and south clusters have complementary industrial advantages, and there is an urgent need for collaborative upgrading. During this trip to Dandong, the two sides are moving from a single business negotiation to a multi-dimensional communication between the industry, the university and the research institute. The two sides are driving each other and innovating each other, committed to bursting out a 1+1 > 2 collaboration effect. At the event site, China Textile City Construction Management Committee and Dandong Textile and Garment Association jointly signed the strategic cooperation agreement, China Textile City West Market Development and Operation Co., Ltd. signed the university-enterprise comprehensive cooperation agreement with the clothing and Textile College of Liaodong University.

"The trip to Dandong is an important stop of our 'Silk Road Keqiao · Cover the whole World' action this year. Next, we will continue to lead Keqiao enterprises into Zhengzhou, Chongqing, Wuhan and other domestic textile industry clusters, further accelerate cluster cooperation, further accelerate domestic circulation, and continue to promote the construction of modern 'international textile capital, Hangshaoxing Star City'." China textile city construction management Committee relevant person said.