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Introduction
shaoxing County lies in the rich western part of the Ningbo-Shaoxing
Plain, Zhe?jiang Province, on Ningbo Port in the east, with an area
of 1.2554km2, governing 20 towns with 778 administration villages,
72 residence lommittee, and a poputation of 0.724 million. Its traffic
and transporta?tion is very convenient on Shanghai-Ning?bo Railway,
Hangzhou-Ningbo Expressway, National Highway 104, and the Zhedong
great Canal from east to west in the county.
Shaoxing is one of China first-lot of 24 historical cultural famous
cities, place endowed with the fine spirits of the universe, having
outstanding tallents in every genera?tion. It is originally called
¡° bright peart on the Southern Reach of the Changjiang
River¡±, ¡°the City of Silk¡±,
¡°the State of Cultural Relics¡±, and ¡°the
Hometown of far?sighted men ¡° of good fames. Since the
reform and opening to the outside world, the people of Shaoxing
County have taken the traditional industry to devetop modern economy
in order to form an industrial structure with the industries of
chemical fiber, textile, printing and dyeing, clothing, and brewery
as superiority, and with the industries of machinery, electronics,
chemicals, and building materials as new industries, and erected
an economic structure with the industry as the lead and with the
combination of inner and foreign trades. In 2000 the whole county¡¯s
GDP
reached RMBY 18.5 billion/yr, with financial income of RMBY 1.401
billion, and farmer¡¯s everage income of 5505 Y/hr/per
head. It took the 10th position in the national 100 strongest rural
economic strength counties and took the 5th position in the national
scientifictech strongest counties. It has many times been listed
in the national l0¡±Mammon Counties¡±,
and its economic total sum has stood the first in Zhejiang Province
year by year, assessed as one of the first-lot well-off counties
by the Provincial CPC and PG. It is also one of the national commercial
market big counties. China Light Textile City in Keqiao is now the
biggest-scale, most completely-equiped, most kinds of trading textiles
marketing place, and the Asian biggest textiles market.
China Light Textile City was first erected in October, 1998.With
hard creation, now it holds 19 professional markets in the four
big trading districts of the east, the middle, the west and the
north, with a land area of 492,000 m2 including a construction area
of 605,000m2, and 13,500 business rooms, among which there are 13
textile markets, 1 light textile raw material market, and S textile
machinery/light industrial product markets. China Light Textile
City gathers various kinds of famous and excellent products and
foreign fine products, among them over 10 thousands of cloth kinds
for sales with client flow of over
70,000 man/time/day, and sales value of about RMBY 50 million, market
exchange sum stands at the 2nd position of the national 100 strongest
markets continuously and assessed as one of the national civilized
markets for many years.
China Light Textile City is formerly Shaoxing Light Textile Market.
In June, 1992 it was changed into the present name with the assessment
of the National Industrial and Commercial Administration Bureau,
and it is the first professional one crowned¡±China¡±.
In February, 1997 it was the first professional market stock company
put up to the Shanghai stock market in China.
Now at the substitution of the old for the new century, China Light
Textile City is striving to make¡± the 2nd-phase creation¡±,
developing, perfecting, improving multi-kind light textile group
bodies, hard constructing it into the China /international trading
exchange centre of textiles, one of information /scientific-tech
/ price discoery.
Red, orange, yellow, green coloured silks are dancing;
East, west, south, north merchants are gathering here.
All friends from homr and abroad everywhere, China Light Textile
City welcomes you all!
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