On the eve of New Year’s Day, the groundbreaking ceremony for the whole line of the Xing Wu-Deqing section of the Hu-Hang Expressway was held in Zhili Town, Wuxing District. After the completion of the project, it will bring the people in the eastern towns of Huzhou a travel experience of “getting on the expressway in 15 minutes and quickly reaching all directions”.
This is the first move for Zhili Town to start the new journey of the 14th Five-Year Plan. As the “Children’s Wear Capital of China”, it has developed from a small shoulder pole street in the past to a modern town with a population of 450,000 all over the country. The butterfly change in Zhili is obvious to all, and it has been included in the pilot town of small city cultivation in Zhejiang Province, and has been selected as one of the top 100 towns with comprehensive strength in China for many years.
Standing in the spotlight again and again, Zhili is full of confidence. During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, the international forum on “The World Significance of China Governance” was held in Zhili, and the symposium of main leaders in the Yangtze River Delta region was taken as an important inspection point. In this “extremely extraordinary and challenging” year of 2020, Zhili’s children’s wear industry went against the trend, turned crisis into opportunity, and was successfully approved for the national market procurement trade mode pilot.
Looking back, it is all a preface. In 2021, Zhili Town will focus on the implementation of the “320” project to promote high-quality economic and social development. The entrepreneurial new city on the south bank of Taihu Lake is accelerating its rise …
Children’s wear industry catch up with international express train
When it comes to weaving, you have to mention children’s clothes. This local characteristic industry has made a batch of new and old Zhili people’s entrepreneurial dreams and formed the largest children’s wear industry cluster in China. In October last year, Huzhou (Zhili) Children’s Wear and Consumer Goods Trading Center was successfully approved as a pilot of the national market procurement trade mode. Now, children’s wear here is also sold all over the world on this “international express”.
“As the only national market procurement trade pilot in Huzhou, Zhili will use this new trade method to connect with the international community and open up a bigger market.” The main leaders of Xing Wu District Committee said that this not only injected new kinetic energy into Zhili, but also into Wuxing District.
The smooth channel also makes Zhili children’s wear enterprises feel excited. “In the past, due to the industrial chain settlement method and other reasons, our children’s wear could not be exported smoothly. Now the convenient service of the pilot has helped our children’s wear enterprises solve big problems.” The relevant person in charge of Zhejiang Buyi Caoren Clothing Co., Ltd. said that the scope of the trading center is located in Zhili, which means that children’s wear in Zhili can be sold around the world conveniently and quickly like small commodities in Yiwu.
“Cloth Grass Man” is one of the first enterprises in Zhili to try cross-border e-commerce. The relevant person in charge of Zhili Town said that with the operation of the pilot, the willingness of Zhili enterprises to “go global” is getting stronger and stronger, which will further promote the integration of cross-border e-commerce, market procurement trade and foreign trade comprehensive services, and accelerate the creation of a global procurement base for children’s wear and daily consumer goods.
Going abroad for children’s wear sales is both an opportunity and a challenge for Zhili. Standing at the forefront of fashion, Zhili children’s wear industry has been going forward bravely-
In 2019, it was approved to become an innovative service complex for children’s wear industry, and was listed in the provincial creation list to build an innovative pattern of “one city, two parks, three centers and five platforms”. Up to now, the innovative service complex for children’s wear industry has gathered 74 innovative service institutions, introduced 8 famous cooperative colleges and introduced nearly 1,000 design talents.
In 2020, we will work together to overcome the epidemic difficulties. The Party Committee and Government of Zhili Town actively explored the new path of “breaking the ice” in the children’s wear industry, and promoted the policy of “children’s eight articles” to help children’s wear enterprises to improve their regulations. From January to October, the total sales of children’s wear industry reached 54 billion yuan, of which online sales of children’s wear reached 14.87 billion yuan, all of which achieved contrarian growth.
In the relay race, from the 13th Five-Year Plan to the 14th Five-Year Plan, Zhili Town has innovatively implemented the “five major projects” to upgrade the children’s wear industry, and is gradually “moving from dream to reality”: the headquarters park of listed children’s wear enterprises gathers superior resources and attracts the headquarters of well-known children’s wear enterprises in China to settle in; China Children’s Wear College will be built into an influential training center for children’s wear professionals at home and abroad. China children’s wear brand operation center currently has 200 enterprises operating; The children’s wear industry demonstration park will build a spiritual exhibition base for children’s wear production craftsmen; Children’s wear smart logistics park is accelerating construction …
Emerging industries speed up and run hard.
In Zhili Town, where the industry is booming, children’s wear is just one of them. Looking eastward from the lake city, Zhili Town, as an important group of Huzhou’s modern ecological lakeside metropolis, has made a “big move” in the new period: focusing on building Zhidong platform, expanding 12 square kilometers, speeding up the construction of road framework infrastructure and forming a new platform for high-tech industrial parks.
“Zhili is a hot spot for the development of private economy, but the existing urban framework can no longer meet the needs of economic development. The major adjustment of urban planning will continue to expand eastward to win space, and the future development potential will be more sufficient.” The main leaders of Zhili Town said that this also added enough horsepower for the speed-up running of emerging industries in Zhili.
Thanks to this plan, at present, the “New Materials Headquarters Base Project” of Zhejiang Chuangte New Materials Co., Ltd., which is located on Zhidong Platform, is accelerating, and the new factory building is just around the corner, and the whole enterprise is fully motivated. “After moving to Zhidong Platform for more than a year, with the expansion of new factories, enterprises have more room for development.” The main person in charge of the company introduced that as a supplier of Bosch, Apple and Huawei, it is expected that the company’s orders will maintain a 50% annual growth, and it is actively preparing for listing.
The private economy “blooms at many points”, and Zhidongpingtai has increasingly become a hot spot for the transformation, development and growth of emerging industries.
The new factory building of the electronic information intelligent science and technology industrial park project with a total investment of 2 billion yuan has been basically completed, and it is expected to be put into production in the second quarter of this year. The investor of the project is Huzhou Jiuding Electronics Co., Ltd., a local enterprise in Zhili. It is understood that the project mainly builds ultra-high frequency ultra-precision data lines, ultra-precision coaxial data lines, wireless charging and other products, which coincides with the development orientation of strategic emerging industries such as digital economy and new materials in Zhili Town.
“Zhili gives priority to policy support in terms of capital and land use, and’ escorts’ for enterprises to take off.” Zhang Chen Hui, director of the Economic Development Office of Zhili Town, introduced that Zhili Town has highlighted the development of industrial quality and efficiency, and actively built two “100 billion-level” industries. Among them, the efforts to attract emerging industries such as electronic information have been increasing, and a number of benchmark enterprises in the electronic information industry have emerged, such as Tony Electronics, Jiuding Electronics, Longying Optoelectronics and Chuangte New Materials.
Expand new growth points and form a new engine for development. In 2020, Zhili Town introduced 27 contracted projects with a total investment of over RMB 22 billion, including 3 projects with a total investment of over RMB 2 billion. Four industrial projects, such as Dongliang, Tony, Chuangte and Keyang, were successfully recognized as major industrial projects in the province, among which the second phase of Green Smart Industrial Park was recognized as a particularly major industrial project in the province.
The fertile ground for emerging industries is also a highland for talent gathering. In 2020, Zhili Town newly introduced 46 top, leading, professors and young people, Tony and Jiuding were selected as the provincial leading innovation team, Dongliang Aluminum and Mihuang Cashmere were selected as the innovation team of the elite plan of South Taihu Lake, and the cooperation between schools and places was strengthened. 4,742 college students were newly introduced, including 13 doctors and 77 masters.
Quality improvement towards a better life
“See beautiful China in Huzhou and feel a better life in the weaving.” As a large town with a population of 450,000, Zhili always takes people’s livelihood as the foothold in promoting social governance, and constantly enhances the sense of acquisition and happiness of ordinary people.
“Mom and Dad work here, my brother and I are both studying here, and we have settled our home in the weaving.” Recently, I walked into the East Campus of Zhili Experimental Primary School Education Group. Xia Shuo, a class of 305 students, was distributing homework to other children. She followed her parents from Anhui to Zhili. She entered this school in the first grade and became the monitor this semester.
Let the children of new residents study happily in Zhili. Over the years, the Party Committee and government of Zhili Town have continuously increased investment in education. Xing Wu Experimental Primary School and Huzhou Peiwen Experimental School have been put into use successively. The eastward expansion of Zhili Experimental Primary School has been promoted in an orderly manner, and the reconstruction and expansion of Shengshe Primary School has been put on the agenda. At present, the enrollment problem of more than 10,000 new residents has been solved.
There is a good school at home. In the process of integration of production, city and people, the small town of Zhili constantly gathers the “standard” of big cities-
The newly-opened Wuxing District People’s Hospital is built according to the standard of a comprehensive third-class hospital with a size of 900 beds, so that new and old Zhili people can enjoy urban medical services and health protection. At the same time, the hospital also works closely with Shanghai Red House Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital and Shanghai Children’s Hospital to increase communication and exchanges in personnel training and scientific research, and continuously improve the medical level.
Zhili Town Cultural and Sports Center, which will be opened in 2021, has a total investment of about 1.289 billion yuan, focusing on the construction of functional venues such as youth training center, fitness center, library and swimming pool, and also has an outdoor activity venue of about 25,000 square meters, providing more choices for enriching people’s spiritual and cultural life …
Focusing on the goal of creating a pilot area for social governance and a better life, today, Zhili Town has continuously improved the “Smart Zhili” network, used high-tech means to form smart platforms such as smart security, smart fire fighting and smart population management, and fully cooperated with social forces such as “Sister Ping” and “Veteran Post Station” to comprehensively, timely and effectively manage the social order of the town, so that new and old Zhili people can be here.
Qi Xin made concerted efforts to build a city. Zhili Town also started with spiritual and cultural guidance to build a brand of “Zhili Zhili”, so that the role models around it could stand in the spotlight and enhance the sense of belonging and identity of people in Xinzhili. In the past four years, 1,390 good people of all kinds were selected, of which more than 75% were new residents, and social integrity was constantly promoted.
Ride the wind and waves and start a new journey. Standing at the historical starting point of the first year of the 14th Five-Year Plan, 450,000 new and old residents of Zhili Town will make concerted efforts to create a pilot area of social governance and a better life, and stride forward towards the goal of “China International Children’s Wear Capital and a new entrepreneurial city on the south bank of Taihu Lake”.
(Source: Zhejiang Daily)