Not long ago, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced the 2022 "three products" strategic demonstration city list of consumer goods industry, Qingdao is on the list, among which, textile and garment as a characteristic and advantageous industry has become an important support for Qingdao's consumer goods industry.

Qingdao is one of the birthplaces of modern textile industry in China. More than 70% of Qingdao textile and garment industry is concentrated in Jimo District. The district has more than 3,800 textile and garment enterprises, the annual output value of 62.1 billion yuan, annual output of all kinds of clothing about 800 million pieces, ranked the fourth in the national children's wear, knitting industry cluster, was awarded by the China Textile Industry Federation "China knitting city" and "China children's wear city" title.

However, with the acceleration of industrial ladder transfer, the competitiveness of the previous large-scale and low-cost development path is weakened, and the development of textile and garment industry faces pressure. The textile and garment industry in Jimo District has the problem of insufficient development momentum.

How to make this traditional advantage industry "new", Jimo District has been exploring. Han Meiyan, deputy director of the Industry and Information Bureau of Jimo District, said: "We must face up to the problems and face up to the weaknesses, among which digital transformation is the main means of industrial upgrading."

Ruihua Group is a beneficiary of digital transformation, from a traditional garment processing enterprise that can only receive orders of more than 10,000 pieces to a flexible production enterprise that can customize every piece.

Since its establishment 30 years ago, Qingdao Ruihua Group Co., Ltd. has accumulated not only the vast market in Europe, the United States, Japan and Southeast Asia, but also the chronic problems faced by most traditional textile and garment enterprises -- the small and customized business is unbearable, the production cost cannot be reduced, and the production efficiency cannot be improved. Cheng Xianyu, the chairman of the company, told reporters that Ruihua had made many attempts and changed the equipment from generation to generation, but the benefit was not obvious.

The turnaround comes in 2020. Some representative enterprises in Jimo District were selected for one-to-one transformation by the ten "double-span" platforms selected by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. This activity focuses on the digital upgrading of the whole process of enterprises to create more leading demonstration projects. Among them, the government subsidizes 40 percent of the renovation funds. Participating in the transformation of textile and garment enterprises are Jifa, Ruihua, Snow Da, Tanyi Melo.

The cooperation with Ruihua is Kaos, which has many industrial Internet enabling cases. Based on the actual pain points of the garment industry and the actual needs of Ruihua, Kaos relies on the comprehensive upgrade of intelligent automation equipment and information system, and tailors for Ruihua the flexible, fast reverse, intelligent, customized clothing intelligent manufacturing overall solution.

In six months, Ruihua successfully upgraded from a traditional garment factory to a benchmark of intelligent transformation in the garment industry. "After the transformation, Ruihua has realized the flexible production of 'small order fast reverse' which can be customized even with 1 piece. The daily production capacity has been increased from less than 9,000 pieces to 12,000 pieces. The production cycle of products has been reduced from 20 days to 7 days, and the management efficiency has been increased by 80%." Cheng Xianyu told reporters that many domestic head clothing brands also cast an olive branch to Ruihua, enterprise orders increased by 30%, orders added value increased by more than 150%. At the same time, through the platform built by Kaos, Ruihua Company can connect with fabric supply data and brand sales data, and produce according to demand, reducing inventory and logistics costs and saving 30% to 40% of costs for brand owners.

Ruihua is an epitome of the digital transformation of Jimo clothing enterprises. With the help of the local government, more and more enterprises are joining the ranks of intelligent manufacturing. According to reports, Jimo district has established a technical transformation and industrial Internet transformation project cultivation database, rolling cultivation into the database project. In 2022, 28 technological transformation projects of more than 5 million yuan have been put into storage, and more than 2 billion yuan has been invested in leveraging technological transformation, and more than 37 million yuan has been obtained for industrial Internet transformation and other support funds for more than 90 textile and garment enterprises.

In addition to the manufacturing method of "new", Jimo textile and clothing enterprises in the material innovation also spare no effort.

Recently, a batch of orders in the production workshop of Qingdao Jifa Group Co., LTD. The company's new fabric research and development technician, the national technical expert Yang Fan holding a piece of fabric told reporters: "This is the use of old grain corn, straw and other crops made of polylactide fiber material, this new fabric is skin friendly, warm, breathable, the production of this fabric can not only solve the problem of crop treatment straw, but also after use for biological decomposition."

In the textile industry, material is fundamental, fabric is the key. According to Yang Fan, Jifa Group develops more than 1,000 kinds of new fabrics and carries out nearly 100 innovative projects every year.

Qingdao Xueda Group product exhibition hall, a variety of clothing fabrics dizzying: can "breathe" composite silk fabric, anti-static antibacterial graphene fabric, can adjust the body temperature according to the environmental temperature of the phase change "air conditioning fiber" fabric.

Material innovation in Jimo textile and garment industry shows a trend of concentrated outbreak: Henni Manufacturing and Qingdao University cooperate to develop seaweed fiber blended yarn, and take the lead in formulating seaweed fiber knitted garment industry standard; Motes Home has developed a number of functional and fashionable home textile products using self-developed physical mite repellent and 3D multi-color fabrics.

"Although the textile and garment industry is a traditional industry, it is also a sunrise industry, a fashion industry and a creative industry. Through the change of new technology, new equipment, new materials and new models, it will continue to add vitality and power to the industry." Han Meiyan said that Jimo District will focus on the positioning of "technology, fashion and green" in the textile and garment industry, take promoting high-quality development as the main line, brand building and industrial innovation as the focus, and digital transformation as the main means to promote the development of traditional industries and create new competitive advantages in the textile and garment industry.

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