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Dalang Wool Weaving: The Whole Town'S Sweater Production Accounts For 1 / 6 Of The World, And Technology Leads The Industrial Cluster To Explore New Ways

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Dalang Town, located in Dongguan, a famous manufacturing city, has many "labels", one of which is not familiar to the outside industry: wool weaving. In 2020, the market turnover of the whole industrial chain of Dalang wool will reach 60 billion yuan, with an annual output of 800 million sweaters, accounting for 18% of the national output. "One out of every six sweaters in the world will be produced.".

"The gorgeous transformation of Dalang wool textile industry from scratch to existence, from existence to excellence, from excellence to strength has become a wonderful miniature of Dongguan, an international manufacturing city." on September 25, Fang Dejia, deputy secretary of the Party committee and mayor of Dalang Town, said at the 2021 Dongguan textile and clothing industry high quality development forum Dalang sub Forum (hereinafter referred to as the forum).

Dongguan is an excellent window to observe the development process of China's manufacturing industry. Each town and street has its own distinctive manufacturing characteristics, among which Dalang is an important model for the development of China's wool textile industry. In 1979, Hong Kong businessmen set up the first wool weaving enterprise in Dalang. They also brought the first loom and the first batch of skilled craftsmen into Dalang. Through the most advanced processing technology at that time, they led the development of Dalang wool weaving industry chain.

In the new era, as a traditional advantage industry, dalangmao also faces the challenges of rising costs, reducing profits and intensifying global competition. Focusing on the long-term competitiveness of Dalang wool weaving industry, "technology" has become a key word repeatedly mentioned by many experts, scholars and entrepreneurs on the forum. During the "14th five year plan" period, the increase of product added value brought by advanced R & D and manufacturing technology will still be the key to activate new development space.

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From the first hand loom to 100000 computerized flat knitting machines

With the help of technology, in the past 40 years, dalangmao industry has developed from scratch, from weak to strong, from dispersion to cluster, which has become a typical sample of regional industrial cluster development.

Zhang Wei, vice president of Yishang Chuangzhi pop global trend, divides the causes of industrial clusters into four types: business driven, technology led, raw material extension and policy capital. "Dalangmao is a typical technology led industrial cluster. Through the most advanced processing technology, it gradually attracts the upstream and downstream cluster development of yarn, logistics, trade market and other industrial chains.".

In May 1979, Hong Kong Union weaves Co., Ltd. opened Dalang No.1 wool weaving factory, the first wool weaving enterprise of Dalang in Dajingtou village in the form of "three supplies and one supplement". More than 100 hand looms and 7 technicians were brought into Dalang for the first time, thus opening the prelude to the development of Dalang wool weaving industry.

In the early stage of reform and opening up, these more than 100 Handlooms were undoubtedly the "first generation engine" to promote the start of the dalangmao weaving industry at that time. In the following years, more and more Hong Kong funded wool weaving enterprises settled down in Dalang. Many Dalang local people entered the wool weaving factory and gradually grew into skilled workers under the training of skilled workers.

Advanced machinery and equipment, skilled workers and industrial talents have laid a solid foundation for the vigorous development of Dalang wool weaving industry.

With the production technology and management experience of the Hong Kong funded wool weaving enterprises, Dalang local residents began to leave the factory and set up a family workshop wool weaving factory in Dalang. In the early 1990s, Dalang developed nearly 1000 private wool weaving enterprises.

In 1995, Guangdong wool market opened in Dalang. The professional woolen streets and villages dominated by private enterprises have gradually formed a climate, attracting well-known raw material manufacturers from all over the country, forming a relatively complete industry system integrating sweater production, raw materials, accessories, machinery, washing, dyeing, printing and trade.

Dalang wool industry is a vivid sample of the rise of China's textile industry in the past 40 years of reform and opening up. In 1978, China's total fiber processing capacity was only 2.76 million tons, accounting for less than 10% of the world's total. By 2017, China's fiber processing capacity has reached 54.3 million tons, nearly 20 times that of 1978, and the output of yarn, cloth and chemical fiber has also reached 17, 8 and 173 times of 1978.

In 2017, China's textile and clothing export volume reached 267.39 billion US dollars, 115 times that of 1978, accounting for 36.8% of the global total. China has become the world's largest textile producer, consumer and exporter.

Xu Yingxin, vice president of China Textile Industry Federation, said that according to incomplete statistics, at present, the number of textile and garment private enterprises in China accounts for 98%, and the number of direct employment in the whole industry exceeds 20 million, which promotes the employment of upstream and downstream about 100 million.

With the change of times, technological innovation has always been an important engine driving the development of Dalang wool industry. As one of the first batch of "China's famous woolen sweater towns", Dalang town government began to promote enterprise technological innovation and "machine replacement" as early as 2008. According to the disclosure of Dalang town government, as of 2020, Dalang town has 100000 computer flat knitting machines, forming a "CNC loom professional Street" with a length of about 1.3km, which has become the most widely used and concentrated area of CNC looms in the world.

By 2020, there are 17243 wool weaving enterprises in Dalang Town, including 168 Enterprises above Designated Size, with an industrial population of 200000 and an annual output of 800 million sweaters. Wool and yarn enterprises have more than 200 relevant patents. The annual market turnover of clothing, yarn and textile machinery in the whole industrial chain reaches 60 billion yuan.

Over the past 40 years, the textile industry has entered a new stage of development. The deepening integration of digital, information and intelligent technologies with the textile industry is promoting the improvement of the quality and efficiency of the textile industry chain and supply chain. A new round of scientific and technological revolution has also brought new development opportunities for the textile industry.

Building public science and technology innovation platform and strengthening technology leading advantages

With the blue ocean market of national textile and garment industry gradually becoming "red" in the competition, the dividend of "the first to eat crab" began to weaken in the early stage of reform and opening up, and industrial self upgrading has become the only way to reshape the advantages of Dalang wool.

In the new stage of development, it is important to strengthen the technical advantages of Dalang wool industry to highlight the tight encirclement and sustainable development. "In the case of rising costs of land, labor and other production factors, the next step is to make an article on the added value of products, improve the labor output value by optimizing the equipment, and increase the unit price by increasing the added value." Liu Yanwei, vice president of China textile construction and planning Institute, said.

As a representative local wool weaving enterprise in Dalang, Liu Jianbo, chairman of Dongguan Yaqi Garment Co., Ltd., also said that Dalang textile enterprises should transform their technical advantages into product advantages and gradually establish product competitiveness. "For enterprises, only technological transformation and technological precipitation can establish the core competitiveness of enterprises and the new advantages of our industrial cluster".

However, Dalang wool weaving enterprises are mainly small and medium-sized private enterprises, and their bearing capacity for R & D investment is relatively limited.

"The upstream R & D investment is very large and experimental, and most enterprises can't afford it for industrial clusters dominated by small and medium-sized enterprises." Guo Ruiping, Professor of Beijing Institute of fashion and director of China knitted apparel design and Research Center, said that the government should support the industry to establish upstream R & D institutions, "The government needs to leverage the relatively high-quality enterprises in the industrial cluster to generate R & D strength and lead the R & D development of the whole industrial cluster."

"What enterprises lack most in developing new materials and new products is testing equipment. Many enterprises can't afford the cost of purchasing and maintaining materials R & D equipment. If a park can establish a public service platform and a large scientific research system, it will be of great help to the further development of enterprises." Hu Junyan, chief technical officer of Dongguan Chaoying Textile Co., Ltd., said.

It is worth noting that Hu Junyan said that in recent years, the Songshan Lake materials laboratory in Dongguan has provided a good research and development platform for textile enterprises. "For enterprises, there are ideas, but without good equipment, there is no way to carry out material screening. Now the opening of Songshan Lake material laboratory provides us with such a platform."

It is reported that Songshan Lake materials laboratory was registered in April 2018 and is one of the first batch of provincial laboratories in Guangdong Province. At present, it has four core plates, namely, frontier scientific research, public technology platform and large scientific devices, innovation model factory and Guangdong Hong Kong Macao cross science center.

Among them, "public technology platform and large scientific device" plate is a systematic, world-class and comprehensive user open platform for material design, preparation, processing, characterization, measurement and simulation construction, including neutron science platform, material preparation and characterization platform, micro processing and device platform, material computing and database platform, and "material intelligent manufacturing" To provide universal technical services for universities, scientific research institutions and enterprises around Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao.

In terms of infrastructure, Dalang has also worked with China Textile Construction Planning Institute to upgrade and transform the Xiangtou 500 mu continuous Woolen Textile Industrial Park, striving to build an advanced five in one park of "production, teaching, research, industry and trade". Among them, Xiangtou fashion science and technology creative park plans to build a national enterprise technology center, and build national textile testing center, national textile clothing shoes and hats trade platform, postdoctoral research station and other innovation platforms.

In addition, Dalang town government said that in the next step, Dalang will further improve the public service platforms such as Dalang Textile Network and Jingwei fashion network, and provide public service projects such as information inquiry, supply and demand release, enterprise promotion, product display, talent recruitment, cooperation and exchange, and at the same time, it will focus on improving the public service capacity of textile, clothing, shoes and hats industry, We will promote the gathering, opening and sharing of resources such as R & D and design creativity, and develop innovative network-based public service modes such as maker space.

From the first sweater in 1979, to the accelerated agglomeration of the whole wool industry chain in the 1990s, and then to the open and diversified industrial platform ecology, Dalang wool industry has gradually explored a path of evolution led by science and technology.

 

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