Thailand builds ASEAN fashion hub

Atty, Director of the National Industrial Promotion Department, said that the National Industrial Promotion Department has urgently formulated an emergency strategic plan to support domestic small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to prepare for the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), mainly including training to improve management awareness, Three major plans include production capacity and promoting enterprise growth.
Atty said that the National Industrial Promotion Department supports domestic small and medium-sized enterprises in preparing to join the ASEAN Economic Community and promptly formulates emergency strategic plans. There are three main plans, including: First, through a number of activities to help enterprises in various industries prepare, such as helping Business owners have made relevant preparations to cope with the establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community. Last year, 7,094 business owners and industrial human resources were helped to participate in relevant training courses; secondly, the three main industries of domestic fashion products were helped to increase production capacity, including textiles and garments, For the leather, jewelry and jewelry industry, training courses include developing human resource management skills and skills, cultivating and developing design talents, developing fashion products, establishing fashion industry alliances, and improving the efficiency of production processes; the third is to develop business owners to become a new generation owners, and promote the growth and soundness of operations. This year’s plan targets 1,890 people to participate in training and improvement courses.
As for the strategy to promote Thailand’s fashion product industry to become the center of ASEAN’s fashion industry, the Department of Industry Promotion will take the lead in piloting the textile and garment, shoemaking and leather, and jewelry and jewelry industries. These three industries generate economic income of 600 billion baht for the country every year. and bring 2.2 million jobs. Last year, the Department of Industry Promotion worked hard to provide convenient conditions for the development of the fashion industry, including organizing product exhibitions to support designers’ products to meet domestic and foreign consumers, helping factories improve production processes and increase production efficiency, and organizing projects in Pratunam, Shanglong, Sukhumvit, Chatuchak Festival, Mare and other commercial centers have established fashion product alliances, etc.