Ningbo is China's largest production base of clothes

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Category: Ningbo Business

Published: Monday, 15 October 2012 09:09

According to Ningbo Municipal Economic Information Commission, Ningbo at present has over 3,000 producers of various clothes, producing about 1.5 billion clothes every year, covering over 13% of the total production of China. Ningbo is now China's largest production base of clothes, the largest base of clothes brands and the largest base for clothes export. It has 26 China Well-known Trademarks and 20 Chinese Brand Names including Youngor, Firs, Romon, TONLION, Rouse, Peacebird and Progen.

On the list of 2010-2011 Top 500 China Textile and Clothes Enterprises there are Ningbo enterprises like Shenzhou, Youngor, Veken, Beyond, Zhongxin, Bridge, Kanger, Yongnan, Aiyimei, Seduno and Sanbang.

The clothes industry is a name card of Ningbo. It is No.1 in China for its comprehensive strength. It has China's largest producers of suits and shirts and it is the most powerful and influential in China for its three industries of clothes, knitwear and household textiles.

In the last year, the total industrial output value made by the large clothes enterprises amounted to 124 billion yuan, increased by 3.3% year on year. An initial estimation shows that Ningbo has 2.4 large clothes enterprises (those whose income of the primary business is above 20 million yuan a year) and the total income reaches 19.424 billion yuan, up by 9.06% year on year. In the last year, economic returns of the clothes enterprises kept increasing, with the profit totaling 1.989 billion yuan, increased by 11.6% above the same period of the previous year.

In the circle of clothes industry, Ningbo International Fashion Festival is very influential, thanks to the powerful clothes producing groups. The 16th Ningbo International Fashion Fair is to open from 25 to 28 in October.