The international socks capital is making big moves!
Zhuji City is located in the north-central part of Zhejiang Province. It is famous for its socks production and is known as the “International Sock Capital”. Datang Street in Zhuji City has the most complete sock industry chain in the world and is the world’s largest sock production base. Sock production accounts for about 35% of the world’s and 70% of the country’s.
This spring, the exhibition economy across the country has accelerated its recovery. From March 21st to 23rd, the Shanghai International Socks Purchasing Fair (hereinafter referred to as the “Shanghai Socks Fair”), which has been held for 16 consecutive years, will be held at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center. Zhuji socks companies are rushing to register, with 205 companies in total. Occupying “half of the country” in Shanghai Socks Fair.
At present, Datang Street has more than 10,000 enterprises of various types, including 208 industrial enterprises above designated size, covering the entire industry chain of the sock industry such as design, raw materials, weaving, packaging, and logistics. In 2022, Datang Street will achieve industrialization above designated size. The total output value was 21.01 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 8.2%; self-operated exports exceeded the 10 billion mark for the first time, a year-on-year increase of 7.95%.
“In the past, Datang sock machines mostly relied on imports. In order to solve the ‘stuck neck’ problem, Zhuji has established cooperative relationships with more than 30 universities and scientific research institutes. “Grade key core technologies and achieve domestic substitution of imported key equipment.” Lou Zhengsan, secretary of the Party Working Committee of Datang Street, said that the annual production capacity of the knitting and seaming-turning integrated machine of Zhuji Sock Machinery Enterprise now exceeds 10,000 units (sets), accounting for the largest share in the country market share, and are also exported to Japan, South Korea, South America, and countries and regions along the “One Belt and One Road“.
People are diligent and spring comes early. For Zhuji, the Shanghai Socks Fair is a big arena for competition among sock production bases across the country, and also a big stage to get started. The exhibition covers an area of 25,000 square meters and brings together leading companies in socks and related products from Zhuji, Yiwu, Haining, Dongyang, Jilin, Liaoyuan and other industrial clusters in Zhejiang. The scale of exports and the number of registered companies have exceeded those in the past.
Lou Zhengsan said that this time Zhuji organized 205 companies to pack high-speed rail trains and form groups to participate in the exhibition, making it a concentrated appearance of the Datang socks industry cluster.
Yao Yongqi, Party Secretary of the Zhuji Municipal Commerce Bureau, introduced that Zhuji will carry out a series of activities during the Shanghai Socks Fair, including the International Socks Fashion Trends Release Show, 2023 Sock Industry 3D Digital design and digital industry application seminars, order matching meetings for overseas buyers and merchants, and Datang Socks Industry Image Display, etc.
It is worth mentioning that in order to effectively help Zhuji socks companies connect with the international market and consolidate and improve export performance, it has currently connected more than 20 channel buyers from key overseas markets such as Europe, the United States, and the Middle East to participate in orders from overseas buyers and merchants. Matchmaking.
“Participating in this conference will not only bring orders to the company, but also further enhance the visibility and reputation of Datang Socks Industry.” Yao Yongqi said that Zhuji is blowing the clarion call to fight for the economy and promote development with all its strength. Next, there will be more Will host or participate in more exhibition activities.
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