Liaoyuan City, Jilin Province, is located in the hinterland of northeast China. It is a well-known “famous city in China's hosiery industry” and the largest cotton socks production base in the country. It is known as the “Cotton socks Capital of China”.
Since the first pair of socks were produced in 1936, Liaoyuan has become the center of the regional textile industry represented by the textile and hosiery industry, and was once known as the “Little Shanghai of Northeast China.” Today, Liaoyuan has grown into the largest cotton socks production base in the country, shaping the market pattern of the domestic cotton socks industry “Zhuji in the south and Liaoyuan in the north”.
After the frost fell, the minimum temperature in Liaoyuan City has dropped to -8℃. In the production workshop of Jilin Northeast Hosiery Industrial Park Hosiery Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Northeast Hosiery Industrial Park”), workers wearing light blue half-sleeved tooling are hot stamping, marking, packaging, etc.The positions are put into production in a tight and orderly manner.
Liaoyuan City has set a goal: to cultivate and build a national hosiery and textile industry cluster. Support the expansion of the hosiery industry and textiles, optimize the structure, strengthen the brand, and promote cooperation. Launched the implementation of the “step-up” project of the socks industry, supported the construction of the “three parks” of Northern Socks Group, and introduced complementary chain enterprises in R&D, raw materials, printing and dyeing, and hosiery manufacturing. Continue to carry out actions to increase varieties, improve quality, and create a brand of “three products and one hundred enterprises” to upgrade regulations and improve quality, implement the digitization and intelligent transformation and upgrading of hosiery machines, and strive to add 3,000 new smart hosiery machines every year. Accelerate the construction of a North American sales network system and expand the export scale of the socks industry. By 2027, a cumulative industrial investment of not less than 5 billion yuan will be completed, and the scale of the industry will strive to exceed 15 billion yuan. By 2030, a cumulative industrial investment of not less than 10 billion yuan will be completed, and the scale of the industry will strive to exceed 20 billion yuan.
