Take Shenzhou International Group Holdings Limited, for example, which operates the world’s largest garment processing facilities, producing about 2 million pieces of ready-made garments a day in its factories in China’s Anhui and Zhejiang provinces and is factories in Southeast Asian countries, making the company a key OEM producer for major sportswear brands globally.
So even today, the textile industry is a typical labor-intensive industry. China, as the world’s largest producer of cotton, has a thousand-year history of textile production and has been providing the world with a constant supply of cheap and qualitative clothing thanks to its demographic characteristics, a strong labor force and the opportunities created by reform and opening-up policies in the late ’70s, and especially China’s entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001.
Widely used in high-grade clothing, home textile fabrics, high-performance filtration materials, clean materials, high-end automotive interiors and other areas, ultra-fine fibers have become a key component in the development of the industry. Synthetic fibers are playing strategic importance.
Shenghong has invested nearly $15 billion over the past 10 years to open up the upstream and downstream industrial chain of synthetic fibers. It maintains an average annual growth rate of more than 10 percent in the number of new technology products and also leads the establishment of a national innovation center for advanced functional fibers.
How to meet the diverse and personalized needs of an increasingly wealthy consumer? Longsheng Fashion, a company that started out as a designer and manufacturer of green leather garments, is a key supplier of leather garments to the European and American markets, with an annual output of over 1.1 million OEM leather orders. The company has pioneered in intelligent production and a one-person-one-version model for customized clothing, from remote measuring.