Haimen Dieshiqiao, famous for its home textile industry, once again ushered in an international event on the 26th. On the same day, the opening of the 2018 Dieshiqiao Home Textiles International Expo attracted more than 400 buyers from more than 20 countries including Pakistan, Yemen and India, as well as more than 30 provinces in China to negotiate and purchase, and promote the deepening of Dieshiqiao home textile products. Enter the international market.

This is another trade event held by the world-class home textile distribution center following the “2018' Belt and Road “Dianshiqiao Import and Export Commodities Fair” in May this year. The Expo has four major themed exhibition areas of “excellent display area, foreign trade display area, new retail display area and micro-e-commerce display area”, and more than 3,000 home textile brands are unveiled together.

This year's International Fair is a review of the development of the Dieshiqiao home textile industry. It is reported that the exhibiting home textile products are carefully selected, representing the development level and industrial strength of the local home textile industry. Yang Zhaohua, president of the China National Textile Association, said that the Dieshiqiao Home Textiles International Fair is not only a commodity trading platform, but also an important mechanism and carrier for promoting international cooperation and policy communication. It reflects the development concept and overall reform logic of China's open market.

“Through this expo, the purpose is to create a new ecology of home textile industry with platform sharing, information sharing and market building, and to provide a new driving force for the strategy of “One Belt, One Road” to promote the products of Dieshiqiao.” Haimen Industrial Park Management Committee Wang Fan, the director of the conference, said that this expo, with its unique conception, interprets the true meaning of fashion home textiles, and demonstrates the essence of life with the advanced design concept. The highest level and fashion of Dieshiqiao home textile products will be displayed through four major exhibitions, brand show interpretations and gatherings.

On the same day, the “Dianshiqiao Cup First International College Student Home Textile Design Competition” sponsored by Donghua University was officially launched to promote the new generation of young home textiles in the fashion, function expansion, living environment, electrocardiogram, human-computer interaction. And other aspects to achieve new breakthroughs. The contest is designed for the collection of talents from textile universities around the world. The core theme is “Innovative Home Textiles, Eco-Home Textiles, Smart Home Textiles”. The competition will set up three groups of flower-shaped creative group, functional fabric group and intelligent fabric group to comprehensively examine the innovative ideas, market potential, achievability and forward-looking of the entries.

The reporter learned that Dieshiqiao is a “test field” approved by the State Council to implement the market procurement trade mode. The market construction area is 1 million square meters, with nearly 10,000 business shops. The national market share of home textile products exceeds 50%, and it sells well in the country. Many large and medium-sized cities are exported to more than 130 countries and regions on five continents. The online and offline trading volume of Dieshiqiao Market exceeded 100 billion yuan.