China News Service, Shaoxing, January 15th (Xiang Jing and Chen Ling) According to the latest news from China Textile City Construction Management Committee, in 2021, the largest fabric market in Asia - China Textile City's online and offline market turnover reached 304.056 billion yuan (RMB). , the same below), of which the market group transactions were 233.888 billion yuan, an increase of 8.12% year-on-year.

With the implementation of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) in 2022, textile foreign trade will welcome new opportunities.

　　China Textile City is located in the south wing of the Yangtze River Delta, Keqiao District, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province. Nearly a quarter of the world's textiles are traded here, and the textiles are exported to 192 countries and regions.

In 2021, under the background of the global fight against the new crown epidemic, local governments, enterprises and industry associations will form a joint force to help the industry "pass the border" by exploring new trade models and holding online and offline exhibitions.

　　Since January, in the workshop of Zhejiang Lisabella Textile and Garment Co., Ltd., workers have been working overtime to meet the deadline.

"This batch of cotton-like fabrics that will be shipped to Italy is our 'fist' product, which contains recycled fibers and is very environmentally friendly." Xia Yanhong, the company's chairman, said that in 2021, the company's sales will increase by about 30% year-on-year.

　　Like the above-mentioned enterprises, the market of China Textile City has maintained a good momentum of development in the past year. The turnover of the light fabric market has reached 168.514 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10.46%; the online transaction volume has reached 70.168 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 15.59%.

From January to December, 5,084 new market entities were registered in China Textile City, including 2,099 newly registered enterprises and 2,985 newly registered individual industrial and commercial households.

　　Behind the data, it is inseparable from the implementation of the pilot market procurement trade method.

At the end of December 2020, the pilot of China Textile City's market procurement trade mode was officially put into operation.

At present, more than 500 merchants in China Textile City have tried market procurement trade methods, and attracted 173 foreign trade companies and 1,422 suppliers to participate in the pilot program, exporting to 147 countries and regions.

　　The data shows that in 2021, Shaoxing's market procurement trade export value will reach 14.27 billion yuan, of which Keqiao District will be 11.48 billion yuan.

　　In the past year, the "exhibition economy" has also contributed to the development of the textile industry.

The 4th World Cloth Merchants Conference in 2021 will be held online and offline to build consensus and explore opportunities for the development of the global textile industry; carry out a series of activities of "Silk Road Keqiao, Covering the World", such as organizing enterprises to participate in the Nigeria special session and the Russian special session. Matchmaking meeting to connect domestic and overseas markets.

　　Shaoxing, as a major textile foreign trade city, with the implementation of RCEP on January 1, 2022, a large number of textile foreign trade enterprises may benefit from it.

　　At the beginning of January, Shaoxing Council for the Promotion of International Trade issued the first RCEP certificate of origin for Shaoxing Weilezhi Textile Co., Ltd., and the goods enjoyed a 0.7 tax point reduction during customs clearance in Japan.

Liu Zebin, general manager of the company, said that this also means that starting from this year, the company can enjoy the policy dividend of reduced tariffs when purchasing raw materials from Japan.

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