Tianjin to be largest textile-trade center in Northern region
Source: Fibre2fashion, News Desk - China Date: 2006-12-05
Recently the widely concerned Beijing-Tianjin International Trade Harbor Textile City has completed. With traders from all over the country removing to locate in the city, this project will become the largest textile-trading center in northern China.
It is learned that Beijing-Tianjin International Trade harbor takes a total construction area of three million square meters. It will gradually develop many large-scale commercial markets in multi-sectors, including light and textile raw materials, metal building materials, small commodities, and family commodities.
Of which, light and textile raw material city occupies an entire construction area of 360,000 square meters. It has integrated trade exhibition, technical research, logistics and distribution, information promotion, and comprehensive supporting system into a multi-purposed operation.
Trading varieties covers textile materials, clothing fabrics, garment accessories, textile machinery and equipments. At present, Beijing-Tianjin International Commercial Harbor has been included in the important items of Tianjin’s ‘ Eleventh Five-Year Plan’ projects.
According to incomplete statistics, the textile and clothing industry in northern China has great commercial potentials. There are nearly 60,000 garment makers in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region alone, they demand over 100 billion yuan of textile materials annually, and about 80 percent would be purchased from Zhejiang, Guangdong and other places.
So the logistics cost accounts for 21 percent of the total textile procurement.
