This year marks the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up. The provincial party committee and the provincial government decided to select a group of advanced collectives and advanced individuals who have made outstanding contributions to Jiangsu's reform and opening up. Dieshiqiao International Home Textile City became the only unit in the Nantong area and was selected for the list of advanced collectives to be commended. The public announcement has now ended.

Dieshiqiao Home Textile City is an advanced model of building a new socialist countryside with characteristic industries. Since its establishment, it has gradually developed into a research and development center for China's textile industry and a distribution base for home textile products. It has won the honorary titles of “National Credit Demonstration Market” and “National Excellent Model Market”. The market textile copyright protection has achieved remarkable results. It has been listed as a demonstration site for outstanding copyright protection in the world by the World Copyright Organization and won the World Intellectual Property Creation Gold Award.

In 2015, the Dieshiqiao market was determined by the State Council as a pilot program for the reform of market procurement trade. In the past three years, the customs clearance trade volume exceeded US$6 billion, forming a pattern of “Yiwu City in the south and Dieshiqiao in the north”.