With a large cloth bag on his shoulder and a stack of sample cards in his hand, Tan Yufan was walking quickly through the store. When he entered the store, he asked, “Do you have this kind of fabric at home?” After communicating efficiently with the dealer and recording information such as fabric name, model, specification, unit price, usage, etc., he hurried to the next shop.
The urban area of Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province is a global textile distribution center. Its annual textile export volume exceeds 100 billion yuan. Its trade covers more than 190 countries and regions around the world. Its annual transaction volume reaches 300 billion yuan, accounting for a quarter of the world’s total. .
Tan Yufan’s job is as a fabric “sample finder”. This is a new profession that has emerged in recent years, and most of the practitioners are young people. They have nimble legs and good memory, are better at using various new communication methods, are familiar with international business platforms, and quickly get started in the textile industry. After accumulating certain resources, many sample seekers moved to the market and started the fabric business.
Now is the peak season for textile foreign trade. Tan Yufan goes to and from the Textile Dongsheng Road Market, East Market, North Market, United Market, etc. every day to efficiently solve the problem of sample finding for local companies and buyers.
The golden autumn of October is busy with production and sales. On the Kehai Highway, there is a constant flow of loading trucks, which is a spectacle: from south to north are white gray fabrics transported to Lanyin Town for printing and dyeing, and in the opposite direction are colorful textile fabrics, scattered to the lower reaches of the industrial chain.
In the first eight months of this year, the region’s exports were 85.414 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 28.0%. Looking at different markets, exports to countries along the “Belt and Road” were 49.808 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 29.8%; exports to members of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) were 18.125 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 40.2%.
Zhejiang Fantesi Textile Co., Ltd. is a leading textile foreign trade enterprise. In the first three quarters of this year, the company’s exports reached US$230 million, a year-on-year growth rate of more than 15%. Fu Guangyi, chairman of the company, said that there are tens of thousands of market operators with sensitive tentacles and a complete textile industry chain. The advantages of the textile industry have been continuously consolidated through transformation, upgrading and organic renewal, and the international status and comparative advantages have been continuously improved.
In 1992, “Shaoxing Light Textile Market” was renamed “Shaoxing Light Textile Market”, becoming the first professional light textile market in the country to be named “China”. Over the past 30 years, from the “cloth market on the water” with rowing boats, to the bold opening of the “road market”, to the construction of a modern “international textile capital”, the textile industry has risen from the ground and is full of vitality.
According to the Shaoxing Municipal Commerce Bureau, 15,000 new market entities have been established since this year, a net increase of nearly 10,000, indicating that the textile industry is still full of vitality.
The government and enterprises collaborate to weave a “piece of cloth”. In Zhejiang Duokan Information Technology Co., Ltd., multiple online live broadcast rooms were launched simultaneously to rapidly expand textile sales channels. Zhu Qiujun, a retired district cadre, is the company’s resident instructor. His responsibility is to help the company understand the live broadcast talent settlement policy, and coordinate with the village community to establish a live broadcast “shared wealth workshop”.
“The company-based instructors have been a big help!” Zheng Long, general manager of the company, said that the company-based instructors use their expertise to help understand policies, coordinate management, and strongly support the company team to go all out to develop the business.
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