China TextileCity, founded in 1988, is the first professional market named “China”. At present, it has basically formed four (south, north, centre and west) distinctive textile trade platforms, i.e. Traditional Trade Zone in the north part and Textile Raw Materials Trade Zone in the west part. Covering an area of 2.69 million square meters, ChinaTextileCity has more than 15,000 business rooms and over 12,000 operators. It makes transact for more than 30,000 kinds of fabric; the tide of patronage is over 100,000 people, there are 532 permanent representative offices of foreign companies and over 2,500 resident foreign purchasers, goods here are sold to 187 countries and regions; In 2007, China Textile City achieved the market turnover of 57,498 billion Yuan.
Location Advantage
ChinaTextileCity locates at Keqiao, ShaoxingCounty, which is 20km away from HangzhouXiaoshanInternationalAirport, 230km away from ShanghaiPudongInternationalAirport, and 150km away from NingboPort. It is in the transport circle of Hu-Hang-yong AND Huang-Jin-Qu Highways and with 104 and 329 national ways cross the whole area. After the completion of HangzhouBayBridge, it will only take one and half hours to get to Shanghai. Obviously, it has location advantage and strong market radiation force.
Markets Concentration Advantage
◆◇Traditional Trade Zone of China Textile City
With a total area of 820,000square meters, the traditional trade zone of China Textile City consists of old market, east market, north market, united market, Tianhui Square, west market, no.6 north market, no.7 north market, no.8 north market and exclusive products market, Development Buiding, grey cloth market, Jinggong Plaza, Dongsheng Road Market etc. The Traditional Trade Market, which is the main market of ChinaTextileCity is displaying the wealth legendary of China Textile CIth along with the advance of upgrading reconstruction in the market region.
(1) The Fabrics Market of ChinaTextileCity at Dongsheng Road
The fabrics market at Dongsheng Road is the birthplace of ChinaTextileCity. It is located in the south core area of ChinaTextileCity. It has occupational land area of 41,000 square meters, construction area of 232,000 square meters and total investment of RMB 1.26 billion Yuan. The upgrading reconstruction of this market will be implemented by three phases. The first phase and the second phase will be completed and put into operation in Sep. 2008 and the third phase will be completed and put into operation in June 2009.
Based on the “wholly-owned by the government, a mature reconstructed market”, the fabrics market at Dongsheng Road aims at “upgrading taste, dividing and classifying market, reducing costs and keeping continuous prosperity” and attracts a large number of well-known domestic and overseas textile and garment fabrics manufacturers and distributors to settle their business here in a way of bringing in foreign companies and selecting domestic companies and meanwhile establishes franchised zone for foreign and Chinese brands. The market is now making efforts to create an excellent business district for international textile fabric trade.
(2) United Market of ChinaTextileCity
United Market of China Textile City is the first phase of upgrading and reformation reconstruction of Traditional Trade Zone of China Textile City, which is construction according to the requirement of internationalized development and modern mode. It is a very modern new market which has the commercial features of professional market such as high technology, informationization, human-orientation and specialization etc.. The market has an occupational land area of 30,800 square meters, construction area of 160,000 square meters, and total investment is more than RMB 1 billion Yuan. Integrating with commercial shops, finance, E-commerce and parking, the market has perfect facilities and functions.
◆◇International Trade Zone of China Textile City
International Trade Zone of China Textile City aims at “Modernization, Company-approach and Systematization”. Catering to the company-approach demands, It has been shaped as a modern market integrating sample exhibition, trade discussion, business office, e-commerce etc. The first phase of international Trade Zone has a construction area of 600,000 square meters, consisting of TimesPlaza, WonderPlaza, YongliMansion, InternationalTradeMansion, Qinye Square, FengyiBusinessCenter and ForeignTradeMansion which are in operation with 90% settlement rate. The second phase of the International Trade Zone has a construction area of 350,000 square meters, including CentralMansion, FortuneMansion, DiamondMansion and OrientalMansion which are all completed and in operation.
With the operating concept “trading in company mode, internationalized operation mode, globalized trading entity and around-the-clock trading”, the international Trade Zone starts the new age of online trading and overseas textile transaction.
◆◇Market Innovation Zone of China Textile City
Market Innovation Zone of ChinaTextileCity is positioned as “the main market of ChinaTextileCity and a professional domestic market of the highest quality and price ratio” to build a brand new system of modern market. The first phase of Market Innovation Zone is Garment, Accessories & Home Textile (Finished Product) Market of China Textile City> The construction of Textile Machinery Market, Grey Cloth Market and Daily Commodities Market in China Textile City is in full swing.
◆◇Garment, Accessories & Home Textile (Finished Product) Market of China Textile City
Garment, Accessories & Home Textile (Finished Products) Market of China Textile City has a construction area of 310,000 square meters and total investment of RMB 1,1 billion Yuan and will be put into operation in September 2008. Under the new innovation and development mode “government guidance, cost reducing, auxiliaries extension, multi-direction exploration, market operation and standard management” and with new commercial distribution concept “site goods trade as base, commercial exhibition as main tool, and brand cultivation as core”, it will become a international modern professional market integrating garment and accessories trade, commerce and trade exhibition, R&D, brand incubation, information distribution, and electronic commerce etc. Global textiles and garment purchaser can have one-step purchase in the market which is an international commerce and trade platform for global garment sales with lowest purchase cost.
◆◇Textile Raw Material Trade Zone of China Textile City
Established in 1993, Qianqing Textile Raw Materials Market of China Textile City is one of the ten largest textile raw materials markets in China. Meanwhile, it is also the biggest distribution center of textile raw materials in Asia. In 2007, its transaction volume reached RMB 24.28 billion Yuan. It becomes the “barometer” for the materials market across China, and affects the prices fluctuation and demand-supply balance in the world. It is designated as the No. 1 Textile Materials Town of China.
