During the 2009 Keqio Spring Expo, 32 textile enterprises, including Shandong Huafang Co., Ltd. Shandong Ruyi Group, Zhejiang Dongfang Huaqiang Textile Co, Fulida Group Holding, Wujiang Haicheng Textile Co, signed the agreements with China Textile Information Center, to become the first batch of core members of CTIC Keqiao Branch. This also indicated the startup of National Textile Fabric Sample Pool project. This project is also the first one of this kind in the branch.
The primary stage of this project covers a storehouse with 4,800 square meters and is going to accomplish the construction in one year. 1000 key textile enterprises will join in and bringing one million pieces of samples. The e-Commerce platform is also under construction. The operation is based on membership system.
The major functions of this sample pool include:
1. product search. The buyer would search every piece of sample in this pool through Internet;
2. sample standard and management. A unifrom standard for those sample is drafted. Each smaple will match a unique code, which tell the buyer the information such as manufacturer, speficiation, color, size and so on;
3. match-making. The CTIC will participate the major trade fairs world wide with the sampls from its members and help the match-making between suppliers and buyers;
4. the protection of intellectual property rights. Each sample has its own code. If the fake copy happens, it is easy to find evidence to protect the owner’s intellectual property rights.
