On October 25, the 4th China Suzhou Jiangnan Culture and Art International Tourism Festival, The 11th Jiangsu (Shengze) Textile Expo and the 2022 China National Apparel Conference unveiled its curtain in Wujiang High-tech Zone (Shengze Town). This three-day Shengze Textile Expo will showcase "originating, original and popular" Shengze fashion textile products to the world, and build a three-dimensional platform for domestic and foreign merchants through promotional exhibitions, investment and financing cooperation, investment transactions, and learning exchanges, aiming to jointly facilitate the "technology, fashion, and green" development of the textile industry, showcasing the world the latest achievements of high-quality development and modernization of the fashion capital Shengze in an all-round way.
Ruizhe SUN, Chairman of International Textile Manufacturers Federation and Chairman of China National Textile and Apparel Council said in his speech that Shengze Textile Expo has become a place where Shengze conveys its industrial strength and local charm to the world. As a business card, the leap-forward development of Shengze Textile Expo highlights the charm of the times as an ancient silk town and a famous textile city. As the epitome of the practice of Chinese-style modernization in the textile industry, Shengze has continuously contributed wisdom, value and strength to the development of the textile industry in China and even in the world, and has been at the forefront of the industry with high-quality development. Ruizhe SUN hopes that at the new historical starting point, Shengze can insist on focusing on the real economy, based on the new development pattern, and promote the high-quality development of the textile industry with a higher vision and position. Shengze should strengthen innovation drive, digital empowerment, and green transformation, promote the high-end, integration and sustainable development of the textile industry, creating a world-class high-end silk textile industry innovation cluster.
At the opening ceremony, Jin Jie, Member of the Standing Committee of the Suzhou Municipal Party Committee and Minister of the Propaganda Department, and Li Ming, Party Secretary of Wujiang District delivered speeches respectively through video record. Shen Chunrong, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of the District, Secretary of the Party Committee of Shengze Town, and Secretary of the Party Working Committee of China Oriental Silk Market, presided over the opening ceremony. Mario Boselli, Honorary Chairman of the Italian National Fashion Chamber of Commerce, Jan Higer, Executive Director of the German Intertextile Industry Association, and Melissa Schleich, President of the French Branch of the European Fashion Institute, sent congratulatory videos as well.
Achieving carbon peaking and carbon neutrality is related to the sustainable development of the Chinese nation. The Wujiang District of Suzhou City White Paper on Climate Innovation Action with Dual Carbon Targets for Textile Industry was released at the opening ceremony. This is Shengze's first time in the world to release the regional industrial dual-carbon action plan at the textile industry level, promoting low-carbon transformation of energy consumption, building a green and low-carbon industrial system, enhancing green technology innovation capabilities, cultivating a green and low-carbon brand matrix, with "green" The "face value" is superimposed on the "golden value", and the Shengze action is the first to unlock the "carbon code" of the development of the textile industry, and build a world-leading zero-carbon textile industry cluster.
In recent years, Shengze has adhered to the concept of green, low-carbon and sustainable development, focusing on environmental protection and sustainability on the manufacturing side, and pursuing fashion and re-innovation on the design side. At the opening ceremony, Shengze and China National Textile and Apparel Council jointly established the first batch of "sustainable innovation offices"， which will support enterprises to deepen exchanges and cooperation, pilot creation, capacity enhancement and comprehensive services under the guidance of sustainable development goals, so as to release new kinetic energy and stimulate new vitality for the transformation and upgrading of the silk textile industry.
At the opening ceremony, Shengze signed contracts with Kaos Industrial Internet, Fuhui Technology, Honghua Digital, Lingdi Technology and other companies to lead Shengze's textile industry to multiply "numbers", empowering "wisdom", and pressing innovation economy. The "fast-forward key" of the textile industry has continuously spawned new highlights of improving the quality and efficiency of the textile industry.
This year's Textile Expo will accelerate the interaction and integration of the upstream and downstream of the textile and garment industry chain with super cohesive force, and create a full fashion industry chain from raw materials, machinery, fabrics, research and development, design to ready-to-wear, customization, and procurement, for the development of the industry. Inject a steady stream of power and revitalize development. This textile expo will also hold the 4th China (Shengze) International Textile Machinery and Printing Industry Exhibition in 2022 at the same time, with a total exhibition area of about 25,000 square meters and nearly 650 booths. Among them, the first floor of the main pavilion of the exhibition area is mainly for industrial chain exhibition and transaction, with seven exhibitions, and the second floor of the main pavilion holds fashion-themed exhibitions and has eight exhibition areas, which inject power and vitality into the development of the industry.
This year's Textile Expo will continue to hold the "Cloud Exhibition", relying on the four themed exhibition areas of "Talking the East", "The Future", "Women's Beauty" and "Sustainability" to conduct "Cloud Live Broadcast", focusing on displaying tens of thousands of domestic and foreign fashion, boutiques, For popular fabrics, buyers can freely choose the exhibitors and exhibits they want to watch to participate in the interaction, and communicate with exhibitors online at zero distance; for fabrics of interest, buyers can enter the details through the daily special live broadcast portal, and can also purchase online with one click. Convenient. Use digital technology to help the efficient connection between industries, realize online and offline two-way linkage, and better show "Shengze fabrics" to global buyers.
Among the series of event activities held during the current Shengze Textile Expo, the "Splendid Chinese Silk Rhythm Jiangnan" series of activities will carry out the traditional weaving, dyeing and embroidery art and life exhibition and the "Splendid Chinese Fashionable Silk Capital" to revitalize the traditional crafts forum to stimulate the modernization of silk culture. Vitality, expand the brand influence of Shengze silk culture; "The era of new opportunities and confidence to cast the future" 2022 China Garment Conference will discuss new ideas and new measures for enterprise development in the digital economy era from multiple angles and in-depth levels, and promote the innovation chain and industry. The precise connection of the chain will push the industrial transformation of the new era into depth; the 2022 Shengze cultural and tourism consumption season will set up a stage display area, a cultural intangible cultural heritage display area, a silk block, a food block, an entertainment block, and a cultural Blocks, etc., activate the vitality of the consumer economy, and dazzle the "fireworks" of Shengze.
During the current Shengze Textile Expo, there will also be a series of fashion and creative activities such as the final and award ceremony of the 5th China Eco-friendly Fabric Design Competition in 2022, and the final and award ceremony of the 2022 "China Cup Fashion Shengze" Digital Art Application Design Competition. , to help Shengze accelerate the creation of a more influential "origin" of design achievements and a "source" of fashion innovation.
After years of development, Shengze Textile Expo has become a world-class silk textile fashion "show, exhibition, competition, meeting, business" platform, effectively promoting the Shengze textile industry to accelerate the upgrade from "fabric" to "material", from production Extend to creativity, and enhance the "gold content", "green content" and "new content" of the industry with "fashion empowerment". This year's Textile Expo will be built into an industry vane and a professional exhibition with insight into new trends in industry development. It will achieve continuous enrichment of connotation, continuous improvement of quality, and continuous expansion of scale. It will play an important role in promoting business cooperation, strengthening cultural exchanges, and boosting industrial development.