Ningbo were opened the first domestic Xifu Dian, the first suit technology vocational schools, the first set of suits, the preparation of the first suit his theoretical writings, and formed a deep cultural heritage clothing.
Ningbo, China has 20 brand names, 25 Chinese well-known trademarks, is Jeans China's largest garment manufacturing and export base.
Ningbo is the country's largest production base of colored yarn output accounting for more than half; largest jacquard weaving base, wide jacquard machine the largest number of non-woven fabrics; the largest knitwear production base, the country accounted for 12 knitting 50 home; owns the country's largest knitting enterprises; national apparel hundred belonging to more than 10 in Ningbo, in which the top 10 there are three.
In 2008, Ningbo above-scale textile and garment manufacturers 2165, 101.879 billion yuan of industrial output value, textiles accounting for about 3% of the total.
The past, a group of artisans from the countryside carrying Ningbo tailor package, walk through in the early days on the beach after. The nineteenth century, Shanghai beach there were many Matheson, these firms and foreign employees and China's rich kids in the ten-mile ocean rise of a wave field wearing a suit the globe. Ningbo tailor a flexible mind to do Zhongzhuang to do so immediately from the suit, because of their emphasis on quality, reputation, business is increasingly prosperous, known as "red to help tailor."
Today, the "clothing capital" Ningbo formed a suit and shirt as a leader, Jeans set of knitted clothing, cashmere clothing, casual wear, children's wear, Leather garment industry, the culmination of a large cluster, is China's largest garment manufacturing base and the main export cities, especially the men's overall strength industrial city of comprehensive strength ranks first in its kind and scale of the country's total output of enterprises above the 8%, the province's 40%.
Textile and garment industry to become a great tradition, Ningbo competitive industries, cotton, wool textile, printing and dyeing, knitting, yarn-dyed, silk, linen, clothing, home textiles, industrial textiles, textile machinery Jeans and equipment and other sectors of basic complete, structure comparison reasonable and fairly complete industrial chain.