Xi'An Textile City: Changing Historical Burden Into Superior Resources

How to pform traditional industries? This is a common problem facing the revitalization of China's old industrial bases.

The largest textile industrial base in Northwest China --

Sunset industry usher in new life

Xi'an textile city is the largest textile industrial base in Northwest China during the "15" period.

Since the late 90s of last century, because of the adjustment of national industrial structure, the aggravation of market competition and the backwardness of production technology, enterprises in Textile City have been closed down, a large number of workers have been laid off, and many families have been living extremely hard.

The textile city has also changed from the "little Shanghai" of Xi'an in the glorious era to one of the poorest and backward areas in the city.

In order to realize the pformation and development of the Textile City, in 2008, the Xi'an municipal Party committee and the municipal government decided to launch a new round of industrial restructuring and set up Xi'an textile group company while completing the Bankruptcy Reform of the major state-owned enterprises in this area. At the same time, the site of the Xi'an Modern Textile Industrial Park was built in different locations, and a large-scale textile industry relocation, pformation and upgrading were carried out.

"The relocation of our textile enterprises is a comprehensive upgrading."

Yang Li, deputy general manager of Xi'an textile group company, said: "after the relocation of the old factory area, we will invest 2 billion yuan to build a new factory area covering 800 mu, forming a large scale textile production base of 300 thousand yuan.

The new base is to relocate the market in accordance with the requirements of new enterprises, new technologies, new equipment and new products, and achieve the first-class level in the same industry in China. The textile industry here will be reborn. "

For the "high-profile revitalization" of the old textile industry, Ge Zhaoxiang, a 77 Year Old Northwest National Cotton four Factory retired worker, is deeply touched.

He said: "Textile City was once the richest and most popular place in Xi'an.

In the past more than 10 years, it has become the most difficult area for enterprises and workers. Even tap water has to be supplied at a limited time. Young people are also hard to find, and many people lose confidence in their lives.

Now I see Xi'an take measures to continue to develop the textile industry at a high level, so that I can see the hope of this old worker. "

Historical burden becomes development resources

In the Textile City area, many cadres and workers believe that the party committees and governments at all levels are determined to make the textile industry reinvigorate the economic development of Xi'an's eastern region, which is both a historical heritage and a choice based on their own advantages to seize opportunities for development.

Nie Zhongqiu, Secretary of the Baqiao district Party committee, believes that bankruptcy is not equal to industrial bankruptcy. Traditional industries are not equal to sunset industries.

He said: "many people, including some experts, believe that the textile industry is a sunset industry and has no future.

But we take into account the pformation of textile enterprises must have a sense of livelihood and sense of hardship. We must solve a large number of objective reality of population employment in order to build a foothold. Therefore, the pformation of the textile city can not be divorced from the textile industry. While we are letting some textile enterprises fail to restructure, we do not abandon the productivity that undermines the textile industry.

Despite the great controversy, we have formed a consensus to revive the textile industry.

Liu Guorong, director of the Management Committee of Xi'an Modern Textile Industrial Park, said that the rebirth of textile city is facing multiple opportunities: with the gradient shift of the textile industry to the West in eastern China, many enterprises are looking for the place to undertake the industry, coupled with the original human resources and technical advantages of the Textile City, the textile industry here has a new round of development conditions.

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Revitalization of the textile industry has also been recognized by a large number of employees.

Li Linghua, an employee of the former West North Cotton three plant, said: "everyone has to wear clothes. How can the textile industry have no future? In the past, the development of enterprises was not good, mainly because of the backward technology, equipment and products, and the added value was too low.

After upgrading, it will definitely make money. "

Yang Liu, deputy general manager of Xi'an Textile Group, said: "the textile industry can not generate high profits like some emerging industries, but as long as it is ready, it can become a high-end industry to create stable returns.

So we still have confidence in the development of this industry.

It is precisely because of this consensus and confidence that the construction of the modern textile industrial park in Xi'an and the pformation of the old Textile City area once again become the engine of economic development in the eastern suburbs of Baqiao, Xi'an.

In the past, the textile industry has been a heavy burden, especially for the poor and stable workers.

At that time, our textile enterprises wanted to find investors, and the threshold was low. But when the merchants visited the old factories, they shook their heads and left.

Nie Zhongqiu said: "now we have high investment threshold, and merchants are much more.

In the past two years, Xi'an's modern textile industrial park has introduced 49 projects, the contract has attracted 30 billion yuan, and 50 projects have been started, with a total investment of 8 billion 900 million yuan and 3000 new jobs. "

Institutional innovation to solve two difficult problems

After the Bankruptcy Reform of large state-owned enterprises, the next stage of pformation and development is often faced with the problem of where money comes from and where people go.

In the pformation and development of Xi'an Textile City, the two basic problems are solved easily by institutional innovation.

The shortage of funds for pformation and upgrading of textile enterprises is solved in "cage changing birds".

Yang Liu, deputy general manager of Xi'an textile group company, said that during the relocation and reconstruction of the textile enterprises, the state-owned land in the old factory area was collected and stored by the government departments. In accordance with the new plan, the construction of Commerce, logistics, housing, cultural and creative industries and other industries were developed and constructed. Thus, the use of land gradation can raise about 1 billion 500 million yuan for new plant construction, equipment renewal and new product development.

Nie Zhongqiu introduced that the main reason for the decline of Textile City area in previous years was the single industry and the industrial chain rupture.

The Xi'an Modern Textile Industrial Park, now under construction, will take the relocation of textile enterprises and undertake the pfer of eastern enterprises, and elongate and pull up the textile industry chain, forming a textile cluster to maximize efficiency and provide full employment opportunities.

Liu Guorong, director of the Management Committee of Xi'an Modern Textile Industrial Park, said that the park plan covers an area of about 15 square kilometers. After about 8 years' completion, it can not only generate about 50 billion yuan output value, but also provide more than 80 thousand jobs. This will provide broad space for the employment of about 20 thousand labor forces in the Textile City area, solve the problem of "where people go" in the old industrial base, and achieve a win-win result in economic and social benefits.