China's Textile And Garment Industry Cluster Competitiveness Analysis And Research

From 1980s, "industry interrelated and geography close" Industrial Clusters had developed in the world, and the government and industrial field had paid more and more attention on this global economic phenomenon.Some regional industrial clusters have also appeared in textile and garment industry that is one of the mainstay industries in China. This tendency is developing rapidly extensively and deeply, and becoming the "accelerator" to regional economic development in our country. But some problems arised and restricted the clusters development. How to solve these problems has become the mission which our textile and garment industry facing now.This paper introduced the conception of Industrial Clusters, reviewed the classical theories in the West, analyzed the affection on competitive ability of the industry and the enterprises, and summarized the status of textile and garment industrial clusters development in our country. On the other hand this paper also emphatically analyzed problems existed and the restricted factors now.Some suggestions on promoting the innovative ability of textile and garment industrial clusters and improving the competitive ability of our textile and garment industrial in the international market were put forward in this paper, such as strengthening the cooperation between the textile or garment enterprises and the other enterprises in the same cluster, strengthening the connection between the enterprises of upper and lower reaches to complete the industrial chain, strengthening the collaboration with the collage or research department under the governmental guiding and supporting, and so on.As an example, this paper analyzed the development status, growing course, and the problems existed of the textile and garment industrial clusters in Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, sum up experience to provide references for the other regions' textile and garment industrial clusters development.