Foshan City, Guangdong Province, is a historical and cultural city, suburb, Zhangcha town is the largest town, located in The Pearl River Delta, 16 kilometers away from GuangZhou, 96 sea miles from Hong Kong, 135 km away from Macao. Town area of 23 square kilometers, the local population of 40000 people, foreign population, 12 thousand people.

Zhangcha knitting industry was born in the last century, 80 years, more than 20 years of rapid development, from the masses, the Government has any plan for self-development guide, from family workshops to spark the development of the grade on the scale Liaoyuanzhishi.

In recent years, the progressive realization of Zhangcha knitting industry from small to large, from low to medium grade, from scattered to the concentration of fission, become an important production base and distribution center of knitwear has become a pillar industry of the economy, Zhangcha, and its size big, big fame. Low cost, the advantages of many kinds of knitting industry in china has laid a pivotal position. At present, Zhangcha knitting enterprise has developed into more than 1,600, with over 10,000 units of the circular knitting machine knit the country’s largest production base. Knitting industry output value of more than 60 billion yuan, Textile industry turnover more than 100 billion yuan, becoming the country’s major knitwear production base and distribution center. Town built-jade belt, white mud, river, ancient stove, Zhangcha, Ha Long, silver up, on the Long, village and city in nine knitting, and even into an area of 1.038 million square meters of knitting industrial park, to become a the production of knitted fabric mainly connected weaving, dyeing, setting, printing, garment and other industries supporting the industry chain of knitting production base. Product categories include fabrics, knitwear, sportswear, knitwear fashion, not only sold all over the country, but also exported to Europe, Japan, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan more than 20 countries and regions, the main production and processing brands in France “AIGLE” , Germany “FISHBONE”, British “UMBRO”, Valentino, Puma, free bird and so on. In 2002, the China Textile Industry Association, China Knitting Industry Association, the “China Knitting town,” a title granted Zhangcha.

In May 1999, “privately-owned management services Zhangcha Town Office” in Foshan City, the first listing; the same year in August, “Zhangcha Town Chamber of Commerce,” “Zhangcha Town knitting market building management committee”, “Guangdong Province Textile Association, Zhang Croucher knitting branch “and other institutions were set up.

Zhangcha the end of 2002 was approved by Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Department the first batch of provincial manufacturing information engineering demonstration town. The end of 2003, Zhangcha was again awarding the Ministry of Science and Technology recognized as “National spark technology intensive zones.” To become the province’s first batch of six “National spark technology intensive zones”, one of the province have become the only one within the same time by the national science and technology sector and the industrial sector to push the industry clusters identified in the town.

It is understood that the present Zhangcha knitting enterprises for more than 95 percent are private enterprises, a total of more than 1000 independent accounting units. While the smaller companies, but most businesses can produce and market, according to the needs of large enterprises to form loosely associated with the production and marketing system, the formation of small units separately accounting, medium and large units of production and management focus on production of a unique way, Zhangcha knitting enterprise unique and flexible small-batch production mode to adapt to textiles, colored varieties. The huge market demand for fast delivery and adults improve the overall competitiveness of knitting industry.

Since 2003, Zhangcha industrial park construction in full swing, economic restructuring has made marked progress. All the streets in new developments in 2003 an area of more than 20 million square meters, transforming the property more than 10 million square meters, has completed the construction area of 23 million square meters, base of Gross capital formation 2 billion yuan to be stationed at the knitting industrial park more than 100 key enterprises. Park highlights the leading role of leading the economy to a great top-Long Industrial Park, and the next Buddha, West Park as a model of the knitwear industry standard, modern industrial park, prompting the property on the scale of the whole street, the grade, speed up the pace of structural adjustment of property and property transformation, driven knitting industry restructuring.

Complete supporting industries and industrial chains, everywhere, the formation of regional aggregation advantage is Zhangcha knitting industry over 20 years of expansion in the development of a miniature. After years of development, Zhangcha knitting industry is mainly formed by knitted fabric, and dyeing, setting, printing, finishing of knitted garment industry chain matching, and this has driven dyeing, setting, printing, Zhuamao, shearing, embroidery , polar fleece, washing, and a group of professional finishing plants flourish formed from the raw material supply to production, sales one-stop service system, created to facilitate the production and business environment, forming a complete set of Zhangcha knitting industry clusters.

Now, Zhangcha were again turned his eyes toward a more long-term development. They realized that as China’s accession to the WTO, domestic and international markets becoming increasingly integrated, the knitting industry, Zhangcha necessarily with the international market. In order to further integration of local industry resources, March 9, 2004, Foshan City, Zhangcha Knitting Industrial Park officially inaugurated.

“Zhangcha Knitting Industrial Park, Foshan City,” is the president of China Textile Industry Association, the advice of Du Chau launched. Street party in accordance with the Government “unified planning, upgrading, integrating resources, bigger and stronger” line of thinking, within the industrial park will be all kinds of knitted Zhangcha production and integrating trading range, and even into one, where will be formed to produce a knitted fabric mainly connected printing and dyeing, setting, printing, clothing and other upstream and downstream industry chain to the knitting industry cluster.

At present, Zhangcha Town proposed a “strong town of six industrial strategy.” Here include: “strong town parks, industrial clusters, international standards, environmental investment, great loss, and name of the town of brand” strategy, each strategy contains a number of new content, but also to guide Zhangcha knitting industry development. They hope that through this series of measures in 3 to 5 years, efforts to achieve double the size of Zhangcha knitting industry, forming the leading chinese knitting industry to Zhangcha town hit by China’s knitting strong town and the world caused by China Knitting Knitting industrial base.