World textile sees China, Chinese textile in Keqiao.
Keqiao started with “a piece of cloth” and created a hundred billion level industrial cluster relying on “a piece of cloth”.
Founded in the 1980s, China Light Textile City is the first professional market named “China” in China. Since its development, it has become a “golden card” of Zhejiang’s reform and opening up, an important window for Shaoxing textile to go global, the industrial base and the foundation of Keqiao, and plays an important role in the overall economic and social development of the whole region.
China Light Textile City is located in Keqiao street, Keqiao District, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province. The market gathers all kinds of textile and garment fabrics, home textiles and industrial textiles. It is currently the largest textile distribution center in the world with the largest business varieties.
It covers a total area of 778000 square meters, with a total construction area of 3.26 million square meters, more than 16000 shops. There are more than 50000 on-site operators, more than 30000 kinds of fabrics, 100000 passengers per day, and a daily turnover of 180 million yuan. 1/4 of the fabrics in the world are traded here every year, and nearly half of the textile enterprises in the country have established production and marketing relations.
Market transactions continued to flourish, with the annual turnover jumping from 76 million yuan in 1988 to 63.453 billion yuan in 2008 (of which the foreign trade turnover was 1.282 billion US dollars), ranking first in the national textile professional wholesale market for 17 consecutive years. It is currently the largest textile distribution center with complete facilities and the largest variety of business in China, and also the largest light textile professional market in Asia.
The traditional trading area of China Light Textile City, with a total area of 1.02 million square meters, mainly includes 11 market areas:
1.The North market
2.The North market zone six area
3.Tian Hui market
4.Beilian curtain fabric market
5.Eastern Market
6.Union market
7.Old Market
8.Dongsheng Road market( or named as knitted fabric market)
9.West Market
10.Gangyue Road-Grey fabric market
11.Yuezhou Gongmao market
Any kinds of fabric you want, you can find in this market.
According to the material, there are cotton, Tencel cotton, artificial cotton, TC, peach skin velvet, canvas, linen, coral velvet, satin, chiffon, woolen, denim, suede, corduroy, plush, PU grid, leather, etc..
According to the usage, there are jean, toy velvet, luggage cloth, lace, rainproof cloth, curtains, car cushion cloth, sofa fabrics, labour cloth.
According to the process artwork, there are knitted fabric, printed fabric, color woven fabric, embroidery, knitting jacquard, coated fabric.
