Urumqi Creates Capital of Central Asian Clothing

In early spring, walking on Urumqi Street, the streets of beautiful women's clothing or mysterious, or gorgeous, or graceful, or unrestrained, from the collision of fashion elements from East and West make Xinjiang beautiful women show that they do not lose in the "North wide" style.

As the core area of ​​the “Belt and Road” initiative, Xinjiang has always been committed to the development of international apparel trade. During the Urumqi Silk Road International Costume and Clothing Festival in 2006, the local government of Urumqi stated that it is necessary to vigorously develop local costumes including ethnic costumes and make Urumqi a famous “garment capital” in Central Asia.

Recently, the Urumqi Economic Commission has identified the overall layout of the Urumqi International Textile and Apparel Business Center. This has injected a "strengthening agent" into the fiery Central Asia fashion capital of the "Belt and Road."

Xinjiang borders on the eight countries of Central and Western Asia. It has 17 ports and 11 ports of Class II. Urumqi has become the nearest city in the air with the shortest distance to Europe, and the railways and highways have reached the nearest neighboring countries, with obvious geographical advantages.

In addition, the clothing products of Central Asian countries are the safest passage for re-export to other countries in the world through Xinjiang. This is called the “Green Passage” by local businesses. This is one of the reasons why Central Asian countries have been highly valued by the Urumqi Garment Clothing Festival.

There was once a survey of Zhejiang enterprises and annual sales of apparel products exported through Xinjiang's ports reached US$500 million. Faced with such a huge market, mainland garment companies have turned their attention to Xinjiang, the land route to Central Asia.

Wang Xin, an agent who manages children's clothing for many years at Urumqi Locomotive Children’s City, said that according to incomplete statistics, from 1 to 12 years old, the average annual clothing consumption per child of a urban family is about 3,000 to 5,000 yuan. According to this conservative estimate, The potential market demand for children's clothing in Central Asian countries is about 1 trillion yuan per year.

Analysts inside the industry have analyzed that the economies of Central and West Asia where the economy mainly relies on oil exports have seen slow development of light industry, and a considerable portion of textiles needs to be imported. To this end, the fourth China-Europe and Asia Expo in 2014 opened a special textile and clothing special hall. Among the foreign exhibitors, foreign representatives and purchasers from Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Russia and other countries showed a strong interest in Xinjiang's native clothing.

The second Central Xinjiang Work Conference also gave Xinjiang textile and apparel industry an unprecedented policy background: With the comprehensive construction of Xinjiang Textile and Apparel Industrial Park infrastructure construction and the construction of a number of quality projects, Xinjiang’s textile and apparel industry’s investment in fixed assets reached a 96.15 billion yuan, an increase of 76.1% over the previous year, a record high.

In the interview, the reporter also found that with the government’s policy support and capital investment, textile and clothing companies broke out with great enthusiasm and thirst for high-end professionals.

Xinjiang used to be an Asia-Europe channel linking traders of the ancient Silk Road. Xinjiang's clothing and apparel culture is a fusion and sublimation of the typical Eastern, Indian, Burmese, and European cultures; today, it is through the “Belt and Road” initiative. Dongfeng, Xinjiang's textile and apparel companies came again in the spring.