Wisdom Opens A New Chapter! The China Closer Garment Industry Development Conference Ended Successfully!

On March 18, the "Focusing on New Consumption and Empowering New Entities" China Apparel Industry Development Conference was successfully concluded in Shantou International Convention and Exhibition Center, where industry leaders, e-commerce giants and innovation pioneers gathered to deeply collide around AI applications, data driven, retail innovation and other issues, injecting new momentum into the personal apparel industry!

Lin Yunfeng, President of the China Knitting Industry Association, Zhang Haiyan, Secretary General of the Industrial Cluster Working Committee of the China Textile Industry Federation, Chen Fuzhong, Deputy Secretary General of Shantou Municipal People's Government, George Collins Onvucoe, Consul General of Nigeria in Guangzhou, Hattib Makenga, Consul General of the Consulate General of Tanzania in Guangzhou Wei Wudang, an official of the US Political and Economic Office in Guangzhou, and other officials attended the event.

　　 Anchor the direction and gather industrial consensus

Zhang Haiyan, Secretary General of the Industrial Cluster Working Committee of the China Textile Industry Federation, said in his speech that the current year is the end of the 14th Five Year Plan and the key node of the beginning of the 15th Five Year Plan. He hoped that this conference could help enterprises understand the cutting-edge trends of the industry, strengthen industrial exchanges and cooperation, stimulate innovative thinking, and enable industrial innovation, Further build the collaborative innovation development of the whole industrial chain of China's underwear and home clothes industry.

Chen Fuzhong, Deputy Secretary General of Shantou Municipal Government, said that Shantou Municipal Party Committee and Government attached importance to the sustainable and healthy development of the textile and clothing industry, and hoped that with the help of the conference platform, Shantou's textile and clothing industry could move towards the high-end of the global industrial chain, so that Shantou's clothing industry could promote the integrated development of domestic and international double cycles with new quality productivity, and integrate global high-quality resources as a whole, High quality "bringing in" and high level "going out".

　　 Hard core sharing, trend insight and practical strategy

Lin Yunfeng, president of China Knitting Industry Association, made a report on the development trend of the knitting industry economy and the close fitting clothing industry. He said that the overall revenue of the knitting industry rose steadily, profits increased rapidly, and the scale of the close fitting clothing industry continued to expand. At the same time, it is proposed that new bio based textile materials and intelligent wearables will become the new development trend.

Dan Sichen, the content strategy director of Cicada Mama, revealed the truth of e-commerce data. The overall category of underwear and home clothes market is well developed but the brand competition is fierce, indicating that the enterprise's opportunities lie in improving the shape, optimizing the size, improving the experience to meet specific needs, improving the quality and tapping the potential.

Li Yawen, the person in charge of the underwear and pantyhose industry of the comprehensive business of the Tiaoyin E-commerce, shared the trend of the 2025 Tiaoyin underwear industry at the conference, saying that Shantou's underwear industry belt is growing at a high speed. In the category of underwear and pantyhose of the Tiaoyin E-commerce, Shantou's industry will have about 20 brands exceeding 100 million in 2024, with a year-on-year growth of 85%. He pointed out that online business is driven by content e-commerce.

Da Qing, the partner of the display republic, put forward the "third space retail theory", advocated that the physical store should be transformed into a "lifestyle experience station", integrated with the scenes of social fitting, customization workshops, etc., and reshaped the user stickiness.

Ye Chaoying, co-founder of AIGCxPower, demonstrated the AI drive design system on the spot, demonstrating "AI generates thousands of underwear designs". He proposed that "AI+quick reaction supply chain" become a new mode of cost reduction and efficiency increase, and technology should enable the industry to shift from "efficiency first" to "experience king".

In addition, the conference held a round table forum to grasp the breaking code of the new consumption era. Ma Qingxuan, Executive Vice President of Shantou Textile and Garment Industry Association, presided over the forum. Xiang Mi, a lady named Jing Yi, herbaceous Liu Bao, Guangzhou Garment Association Ma Rui, and Display Gonghe Daqing talked about retail innovation.

The successful conclusion of the China Closer Garment Industry Development Conference further described a new blueprint of intelligence, greening and personalization for the closer garment industry, and confirmed the infinite possibility of breaking the situation and upgrading the traditional industry with the "Shantou sample". From the disruptive innovation of AI design to the new paradigm of consumption, from the agile response of flexible supply chain to the immersive experience of physical retail, this grand event has condensed the industrial consensus and ignited the innovation engine. Let's look forward to the next China Apparel Industry Development Conference again!