The First Silk Town In China: Wujiang, Jiangsu, "Breaking The Cocoon" And Breaking The "New Silk Road"

In the month of Mengxia, all things show together. Wujiang District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, which is surrounded by the "Golden Triangle" of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, is full of vitality. Driving along the South Third Ring Viaduct in Shengze Town from west to east, the traffic was busy.

"I didn't expect that there would be a 'three ring road' in a small town, and there would be traffic jams at the peak in the morning and evening. Ouch! This is still 'the first silk town in China'," said the driver who followed the reporter's investigation all the way. Looking out of the window as the master indicated, the towering white cooling tower on the right front is approaching. The word "Shengze" on the tower and the color painting of the water scene make the cooling tower, which is 55 meters high and 48 meters in diameter at the bottom, look like a "cultural landmark".

Shengze Town is an important economic town in Wujiang and also a well-known "ancient silk town and famous textile city". Such a small town in Jiangnan, which covers an area of 150 square kilometers and has a population of 400000, has produced a large number of outstanding private enterprises and two of the world's top 500. It is one of the regions with the highest concentration of textile industry in the world at present.

"There are nearly 3000 textile enterprises in Shengze Town, creating a complete textile industry chain that is rare in the world," from a drop of oil to a piece of cloth "and" from a piece of silk to a brand ". Shen Chunrong, member of the Standing Committee of the Wujiang District Party Committee, secretary of the Party Working Committee of Wujiang High tech Zone, and secretary of the Party Committee of Shengze Town, said that industrial development is not overnight, and many" bosses "start from" grassroots ", Step by step, the enterprise will grow.

In recent years, Wujiang has also linked the transformation and upgrading of the local silk textile industry through the intelligent transformation and digital transformation of "one silk", making this ancient and beautiful traditional industry "reborn".

Walking into the workshop of Wujiang Fuhua Weaving Co., Ltd., we saw orderly arrangement of production lines and non-stop operation of textile equipment, where a high-density ultrathin fabric was being processed. The composite powder material with small particle size is evenly dispersed in the fiber, which can not only reflect and scatter the ultraviolet rays entering the fabric, making the fabric have excellent ultraviolet resistance, but also can quickly dissipate heat, with excellent contact cooling characteristics. This is where some of the high-end fabrics of the entrance clothes for the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games were born.

In the National Advanced Functional Fiber Innovation Center, "one silk" is not what it used to be.

"As one of the main raw materials for textile production, chemical fiber is also an important foundation for promoting the upgrading and development of the textile industry," said Chen Jiangang, deputy director of Suzhou Wujiang District Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, "For a long time, the monofilament (superfine fiber) has reached 0.5dpf (10000m, 0.5g), which is a bottleneck that is difficult to break in the chemical fiber field. Shenghong has achieved the monofilament fineness of 0.15dpf, which is equivalent to 1/30 of the hair diameter. Therefore, Shenghong has formulated the first international standard in China's chemical fiber industry."

At present, this national manufacturing innovation center led by Shenghong Holding Group has gathered more than 100 leading enterprises, universities, research institutes and other units to achieve technological breakthroughs in nanofibers, flame retardant fibers, antimony free fibers and other aspects.

With natural silk as the starting point, Wujiang continues to extend the industrial chain, expand new tracks, and achieve the perfection of "one silk". With "silk" as the medium, from "line" to "surface", it has cultivated four hundred billion level industrial clusters of silk textile, equipment manufacturing, electronic information and new materials, as well as 31 listed enterprises, more than 50 national specialized, special and new "little giant" enterprises 250000 market players.

In February this year, the "Advanced Materials Development Index" jointly launched by Wujiang and CCID Consulting was officially released, which is also known as the "Wujiang Index". With its good foundation accumulated in fiber materials, film materials, magnetic induction materials and other fields, Wujiang's new material industry, which has been continuously cultivated for more than 10 years, has now grown into the fourth local "100 billion level" industrial cluster. From "one piece of silk" to "one piece of fiber", from "fabric" to "new material", Wujiang continues to promote high-quality development, leading in innovation and seeking change in exploration.

Li Ming, secretary of Wujiang District Committee of Suzhou City and secretary of the Party Working Committee of Wujiang Economic and Technological Development Zone, said that silk textile is a traditional advantageous industry in Wujiang with profound historical and cultural heritage. In the next step, Wujiang will base itself on the advantages of resources, deepen its industrial foundation, accelerate the formation of high-end innovation clusters in advanced materials, high-end equipment, new generation information technology and other fields, promote the "two wheel drive" of traditional industries and strategic emerging industries, and promote high-quality development by comprehensively revitalizing industries.

(Source: Xinhuanet)