Chen Hao: Keqiao Has The World'S Largest Textile Distribution Center

Chen Hao, Secretary of the CPC Committee of Keqiao District, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province

From December 2-5, the 2023 Boao Forum for Chinese Entrepreneurs was held in Boao, Hainan. At the round table meeting of the main forum held on the 4th, Chen Hao, Secretary of the CPC Committee of Keqiao District, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province, said that Keqiao has a strong development vitality. The textile industry is Keqiao's pillar industry. It has the largest textile distribution center in the world, with a turnover of more than 330 billion yuan.

Keqiao is located in the core area of the Yangtze River Delta, with a land area of 10.66 million square kilometers. It is famous for its prosperity and popularity because of the cloth. It has constantly excavated the "cloth" world, created a hundred billion level textile industry cluster, and has become an important hub for global financing.

Chen Hao introduced that Keqiao has a leading comprehensive strength and strategic emerging industry projects, involving pan semiconductor, new energy, new materials, life and health and other fields. The regional GDP and GDP per capita rank among the top in the province. The region has more than 180000 market players, 1400 industrial enterprises above designated size, more than 1700 online business enterprises, 556 high-tech enterprises, and 17 listed enterprises. Last year, the per capita disposable income of residents in the whole district reached 74800 yuan, ranking among the top five in Zhejiang. The per capita disposable income of farmers is 51600 yuan, ranking first in Zhejiang.

According to the statistics of Keqiao District Statistics Bureau, after accounting, the gross regional product (GDP) of Keqiao District reached 145.041 billion yuan in the first three quarters, an increase of 8.2%, which was 3.0, 1.9 and 0.4 percentage points higher than that of the whole country, the whole province and the whole city respectively. The total amount and growth rate both ranked first in the whole city, and continued to "lead the whole city and compete in the whole province".

"Keqiao has obvious regional advantages, 20 minutes' drive from Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport." Chen Hao said that Keqiao has an excellent business environment, continues to iterate and upgrade investment promotion industrial policies, and the introduction of talent projects has received support of up to 200 million yuan, while promoting fund investment.

The four-day 2023 Boao Forum for Chinese Entrepreneurs is co sponsored by Xinhua News Agency, the People's Government of Hainan Province, and China Brand Building Promotion Association, and hosted by the Xinhua News Agency Brand Office, Xinhuanet, and the Hainan Provincial Committee of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade. With the theme of "focusing on new quality productivity and enhancing new momentum of development", the forum set up a main forum, parallel forums and more than 10 colorful featured activities. Since its establishment in 2016, the Boao Forum for Chinese Entrepreneurs has been held for eight consecutive times, which has a wide range of social influence and is known as the annual thought and wisdom feast of the Chinese business community.

(Source: Xinhuanet)