Yiwu city develops the stockings industry "machine for human" to open a new era of "wisdom" manufact

1、 Small socks realize big market

Yiwu's Hosiery Industry has gone through many years from 12 sets of hand-operated hosiery machines in 1912 to more than 1400 enterprises and more than 60000 world-class imported hosiery machines.

After years of development, Yiwu socks industry has formed obvious regional advantages. Yiwu, a well-known brand hosiery machine produced in Italy, South Korea and other countries, has excellent equipment and advanced technology. The whole industry has 507 patented technologies; Reasonable structure, balanced production and marketing, strong creative design and R & D ability, leading the whole socks industry from products to packaging; The brand of industry and enterprise has the highest gold content. Yiwu sock industry not only has "China's famous city of sock industry", "China's knitting industry over 10 billion yuan key industrial cluster", "Zhejiang sock industry trademark brand base".

However, in recent years, affected by the domestic and foreign economic situation, and the rapid rise of the surrounding sock industry bases such as Zhuji Datang, Jiangxi Yingtan, Jiangsu Suqian, Yiwu sock industry also began to face many challenges.

Jia Wenhong, director of Yiwu Economic and Information Technology Commission, believes that although Yiwu's sock industry has the largest sales volume at home and abroad, its profit margin is not high. The average export price of some socks is only 0.8 yuan / pair, which can only earn a meager profit. Some sock factories have no independent brand and advanced technology, and have been processing for foreign brands. With the rising of domestic labor costs and raw material costs, Yiwu's sock industry's profit space is gradually squeezed, and its competitiveness in the international market is also gradually declining, which is not conducive to the long-term development of Yiwu's sock industry. We must enhance the core competitiveness of Yiwu's sock industry as soon as possible.

2、 "Machine replacement" to achieve comprehensive upgrading

With the gradual disappearance of demographic dividend, how can Yiwu socks be saved“ We have to transform, but how to transform is the breakthrough Jia Wenhong said.

In recent years, a number of leading enterprises in Yiwu City have begun to invest in the research and development of relevant equipment, such as Xiaolongren socks, Mengna socks, Langsha socks and Yiwu center of Shenyang Automation Research Institute, etc., which are actively developing and trial manufacturing automatic socks packaging machine, which can replace manual work Socks automatic sewing machine and other new equipment, and has achieved preliminary results.

"Although the original intention at the beginning may be to" replace people ", it is actually one of the important means for sock enterprises and industries to realize structural adjustment, transformation and upgrading. The effect is comprehensive and multifaceted, because the structural upgrading of sock industry is realized through technological progress and improvement of labor quality." Jia Wenhong said that it is an inevitable trend for the sock industry to replace people with machines. In the next five to 10 years, this demand trend will be more obvious.

In order to encourage more enterprises to join in the "machine replacement" team, Yiwu City has increased financial support for the technological transformation of "machine replacement" for three consecutive years. For the key technological transformation projects of enterprises listed in the "machine replacement" demonstration pilot unit of Yiwu City, subsidies are given according to 8% - 12% of the actual equipment investment. This year, the discount rate will be increased to 15% - 20%, At the same time, for the "machine replacement" project with a certain amount of investment in production equipment, as well as the enterprise through independent innovation, manufacturing the imported self use equipment (equipment) with independent intellectual property rights, and the advanced self use equipment that provides common technology and key technology support for the city's leading industries, the discount rate is 20%.

Taking the "machine replacement" high-speed train, Yiwu socks industry will focus on high growth enterprises and "two modernizations" integration demonstration enterprises, and comprehensively launch the "machine replacement" key technical transformation projects.