Dalang Town, Dongguan City, China, known as “China’s Famous Sweater Town“, has more than 20,000 woolen knitting enterprises, more than 100,000 CNC looms in use, and an annual output of more than 800 million pieces.
The amount of sweaters accounts for one-sixth of global sweater production. These huge numbers make Dalang Town one of China’s most important woolen fabric trading markets and sweater production bases.
With good location advantages, after more than 30 years of development, Dalang Town, Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, has gradually formed unique advantages in terms of industrial scale, industrial facilities, and market circulation.
Dalang Town is one of the first batches of “Chinese Famous Sweater Towns” in China. In 2018 and 2019, it also won the title of “Top Ten Featured Clusters in China’s Textile and Garment Industry” for two consecutive years.
Dalang Town pays more and more attention to the protection and promotion of the brand. Dalang Town has registered the regional brands of “Dalang” and “Dalang Wool Weaving” in more than 80 countries and regions worldwide.
At the same time, Dalang Town has also organized enterprises to participate in international clothing procurement exhibitions, clothing exhibitions and China Knitting Expo, and other textile exhibitions and trade fairs with the unified logo of “Dalang Wool Weaving” many times.
As the most well-known wool textile industry cluster in China, Dalang Town is demonstrating its achievements and long-term goals on the road to accelerating transformation and upgrading through this series of practical actions.
In recent years, with the development of labor-intensive industries in Southeast Asia, especially the wool textile industry, many European and American orders have turned to Southeast Asia, which has had a great impact on Dalang.
But this does not mean that Vietnam has “snatched” the orders that originally belonged to Chinese OEMs. Compared with orders, the real dividend that Vietnam has taken away is labor employment, and it also means that the country has freed up space to usher in industrial upgrading.
Dalang’s wool weaving industry has developed for decades, accumulated rich experience, and has a strong ability to overcome sweater design, difficult and complex weaving methods, etc. Moreover, Dalang’s wool weaving industry, from spinning, to looms, to export, has a very mature industrial chain, which is currently not available in Southeast Asia.