The 13th session of Straits Textile & Clothing Fair and 2010 Casual Wear Expo will be ceremoniously held in Shishi City of China from April 18 to 21, 2010.
Introduction of STCF
STCF is English abbreviation of Straits Textile & Clothing Fair and Casual Wear Expo. STCF is organized by Fujian Provincial People's Government, China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, China National Textile and Apparel Council, China National Garment Association, China Fashion Association, Taiwan Textile Federation, co-organized by People's Government of Quanzhou Municipality, Shishi People's Municipal Government, which is held on April 18 each year in Shishi City of China. Until now, it has continuously been held for 12 sessions, the amount of sales with intentions accounted to 37.466 billion Yuan. The exhibition area is 45,000 square meters, mainly exhibiting business casual wear, sports and casual wear, outdoor functional clothes, children's wear, pants, casual fabrics, functional fabrics, textile and garment machinery and equipments. With more than 1,000 exhibitors,it is one of the largest local shows in China which attracts a large number of guests from all over the world every year.
STCF Venue - Brief Introduction of Textile & Garment Industry Groups in Shishi City, a Famous City of Casual Wear in China
Shishi is a forefront city with the most energy in the west side of Chinese Taiwan Strait, also one of the earliest birthplaces and distribution centers of Chinese textile and garment industry, the central city of Fujian clothes, as well as one of the first groups of "Famous City of Casual Clothes in China" granted by China Textile Industry Association and China National Garment Association. Under its jurisdiction, Lingxiu Town, Hanjiang Town, Baogai Town and Hongshan Town are respectively granted with the titles as "Famous Town of Sports & Casual Clothes in China", "Famous Town of Western Trousers in China", "Famous Town of Garment Accessories in China", "Famous Town of Casual Fabrics in China" and "Famous Town of Children's Wear in China", which symbolizes integration, industrialization and standardization of division of Shishi textile and garment industry. Shishi .textile and garment industry is the backbone of Shishi City. In 2008, the city's textile and garment production and operation enterprises actively overcame the influence of international financial crisis and achieved output value of 32 billion Yuan, that increased by 20%, accounting for 65% of total industrial output value. This year, the textile and garment industry maintains its growth of 14%,and the expected industry output value will reach 36.5 billion Yuan, which shows great vigor and ability to resist stress.
The textile and garment industry chain is complete in Shishi, and garment production is the core of the chain which covers chemical fiber, textile, dyeing and finishing, fabrics, accessories, footwear, fashion information, research and development design, production, processing and marketing for a synchronous prosperity. Each process in the industry chain closely collaborates with each other. With a national first-class production base and specialized market, it has fast and high efficient industry cycles. After nearly three decades of development and accumulation, it can be said that the textile and garment industrial groups in Shishi is now difficult for a simple replication. The group's features are as follows:
1. The industry's scale is big and its overall competitiveness is strong. As viewed from garment: Shishi is not only a famous city of casual wear in China, but also one of top three national children's wear bases as well as a production base of trousers in China. There are more than 10, 000 garment production enterprises in Quanzhou textile and garment zone where surrounds Shishi, the center, which has formed a huge garment industry groups, with nearly 8,000 pieces of clothes with registered trademark, and its total brand amount is listed the third in the county-level cities in China. Its clothes annual turnover achieves more than 20 billion Yuan, more than 10 billion Yuan for children's wear. All kinds of casual fabric account for more than 50% of the same species in the nation, with accessory's annual turnover nearly 10 billion Yuan.
2. It has strong capacity of independent innovation and R & D. At present, most textile fabric and accessory companies have R & D centers here, and a group of national-level R & D centers have settled in Shishi, the level of scientific and technological research up to the national and the world's advanced level. As viewed from clothes: A huge professional design team is in Shishi, including many local trained designers such as Kabin, Zeng Fengfei, Liu Xiaofei who are among China Top Ten Garment Designers. Kabin gained the exclusive design award for men's wear in China in 2008 and 2009, and Liu Xiaofei was selected as No.1 of the Top Ten Garment Designers. As viewed from fabrics: Shishi is "the Fashion Trends Release Base of Textile and Garment", "the Developing Base Of Casual Wear Fabrics in China", "the Research Center of T-shirt Fabrics in China", with a group of fabric production enterprises identified by Chinese Textile Industry Association. Now casual fabric of Shishi is no.1 in the country, at the aspect of fabric dyeing and finishing, the manufacturers focus on both environmental protection and technology and repeatedly solve the difficulties.
3. It has well-developed market system. Shishi is known for its "small town, big network". As viewed from clothes: in large and small commercial streets of Shishi, there are total 18 professional markets in wholesale malls where have always been the famous clothes distribution markets in southeast coast and even the whole country. One of the National Top Ten Professional Garment Markets - Shishi Garment City invested 1.5 billion Yuan, with an area of 1110 Mu (740,370 square meters). As viewed from fabrics: there are nine professional fabric markets in Shishi, and the famous ones are Yuanyang Chi, Jinhui and Fufeng. Among which, Yuanyang Chi market has annual trading value of more than 10 billion Yuan, among Top Four Fabric Markets in China.
4. It has cutting-edge fashion information center. The core of fashion elements in Shish is "leisure", and the garment industry chain in Shishi is run through by Fujian's casual features, especially its innovative ability of the "casual" style product in the chain always maintains the advanced level in the whole country.
5. It has strong industry cohesion. The rapid expansion of the size of various industries gave birth to provincial and municipal Top Ten Industry Associations related to textile and garment which include clothes, casual pants, children's wear, fabrics, accessories, dyeing and finishing, sewing equipment and footwear., etc.
Contact:
Miss Gao Peirong 0595-88703999 (Tel) , 0595-88703999 (Fax), 13,600,719,525 (mobile phone), E-mail: 853769696@qq.com
Website: http://www.stcf.com.cn/english/
