Market Trends: The Yangtze River Delta Is Busy With Textile Production And Marketing, And The Integration "Weaving" Creates A Real Picture

Textile and clothing is one of the traditional advantages and economic pillar industries in the Yangtze River Delta. With obvious product features, significant cluster effect, active market enterprises, and strong employment drive, it has been listed in the Outline of the Yangtze River Delta Regional Integration Development Plan as one of the top ten areas for building a world-class manufacturing cluster. Today, with the acceleration of the integration of the Yangtze River Delta, textile trade between "three provinces and one city" is increasingly close. The big data of Manbang freight transport shows that the ton weight of textile transport in the Yangtze River Delta has increased by 14.7% year on year in the past year, and the year-on-year growth at the beginning of 2024 will reach 53.8%. The textile transport in "three provinces and one city" (Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui) has made a good start.

　　 "Su Daqiang" delivers more and heavier goods, and "Suzhou Textile" products lead the market

As one of the important birthplaces of China's textile industry, Jiangsu's textile industry has formed a complete industrial chain from fiber, spinning, weaving, printing and dyeing to clothing, home textiles, industrial textiles, and textile machinery and equipment. Among them, Suzhou, Wuxi and Nantong are particularly outstanding in terms of industrial chain completeness, and the number of leading enterprises is leading in the country.

Thanks to the advantages of online sales, intelligent manufacturing and stable industrial chain supply chain, Jiangsu's textile industry will perform well in 2023. Recently, Manbang released a textile freight data report, which shows that at the beginning of 2024, the tonnage of textile shipments in Jiangsu will rise by 44.5% year on year, 22.29% year on year in 2023, and the total weight of textile shipments will rise by 5.2% year on year, realizing "two wings flying together". At the same time, with the development of freight logistics, Jiangsu textiles take "silk" as the medium, and "trade" and "line" lead thousands of miles. Today, textiles from Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, are even transported to Ali, Xinjiang, more than 5000 kilometers away.

In Suzhou, a major city in the textile and clothing industry, there is not only a complete textile industry chain of "from a drop of oil to a piece of cloth" and "from a piece of silk to a brand", but also the birth of the world's top 500 enterprises. The local China Oriental Silk Market has gathered more than 7000 enterprises engaged in fabric production and trade. Every day, trucks full of goods come in and go out, which is the epitome of the "boom in supply and demand" of textiles.

According to relevant data in the report, Suzhou continues to lead the top five cities in the list of Jiangsu textile shipments and Jiangsu textile receiving cities: the tonnage of shipments far exceeds Nantong and Wuxi, the second and third largest in the province, which is three times the fourth and fifth largest in the province; On the list of destinations for Jiangsu textiles, Suzhou also outperformed Shaoxing and Nantong, almost the sum of the receipts of Jiaxing and Linyi.

　　 Industrial synergy and integration, "front-line leading" in trade exchanges

In any integration plan or scheme of the Yangtze River Delta, "industrial collaboration" is an important chapter.

The year 2023 marks the fifth anniversary of the integration of the Yangtze River Delta into a national strategy. Over the past five years, "three provinces and one city" has been closely linked to integration and high quality, constantly promoting the "blueprint plan" to become a "reality picture", and the textile industry has become a beneficiary of this strategy.

According to the report data, the Yangtze River Delta region occupies three seats in the list of "Top Tonnage Shipped by the Departure Province", with Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui ranking first, second and fifth respectively. At the same time, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces also took the "No. 1" position of "the province with the largest month on month increase in the tonnage of textile shipments" and "the city with the largest month on month increase in the tonnage of textile receipts" respectively. Among them, Jinhua, Wuxi, Nanjing, Changzhou and Suzhou ranked the top five cities with the largest month on month increase in the tonnage of textile receipts, which respectively belong to Zhejiang Province, Jiangsu Province and Anhui Province. Three ranking lists of fine products show the prosperity of the textile industry in the Yangtze River Delta.

In addition, the data shows that for textiles originating from Jiangsu, among the cities with the largest year-on-year growth in the number of tons of goods received, Suqian, Hangzhou, Jinhua, Anqing and Nantong are the top five cities in the Yangtze River Delta region. The number of tons of goods received in Jinhua, Zhejiang and Anqing, Anhui increased by 69.9% and 73.7% year on year. In the top five list of "the main cities where Jiangsu textiles come and go", Shaoxing and Jiaxing of Zhejiang Province broke into the top three, directly catching up with Suzhou, the first city in Jiangsu Province.

Spring River Water Warms Duck Prophet. When talking about the past year, Master Zhu, a truck driver who often travels in the Yangtze River Delta, felt that he was "too busy". "Starting from Jiangsu, there are more orders going to Anhui, Zhejiang and Shanghai. We used to travel far, but now many goods are transferred between the" three provinces and one city "." Numerals confirm his feelings. Manbang freight data shows that the average transport distance of textiles sent out by "three provinces and one city" has decreased in varying degrees in the past year. The shorter journey reflects not only the convenience of transportation, but also the concentration of textile production and sales points in the Yangtze River Delta.

It is worth noting that among the data released by the platform, the top four "popular textile transmission routes" are "Wuxi Shaoxing", "Nantong Jiaxing", "Shaoxing Jinhua" and "Jiaxing Shaoxing", all of which travel between Jiangsu and Zhejiang; On the ranking list of "platform textile receiving weight", Zhejiang Shaoxing, Jiangsu Suzhou, Zhejiang Jinhua, Shanghai, and Jiangsu Nantong rank among the top five... The close industrial ties among three provinces and one city in the Yangtze River Delta are highlighted through this series of ranking.

(Source: Yangtze Evening News)