1. Level: national AAA scenic area

2. Address: Keqiao Subdistrict, Keqiao District

3. Transport: Search “China Textile City(中国轻纺城” on Baidu map or Google Map, and select route according to actual conditions.

4. Admission ticket: Free

5. Tel: 0575-855558002

6. Introduction:

China Textile City covers an area of 778,000 square meters with a floor area of 3.26 million square meters. It includes 16,000 shops and 19,000 business premises. Amount of business men inside reaches as many as 50000, trading over 30000 kinds of shell fabric, and daily visitors come to 100,000 person-times. It achieves 180 million yuan for volume of transaction every day. There are 76 financial service point in the market area, receiving deposit over 2 billion yuan each day. The market is developing steadily, with annual volume of transaction growing from 76 million yuan in 1988 to 63.453 billion yuan in 2008 (among which 1.282 billion USD was for foreign trade). It has ranked first among national textile wholesales markets for successive 17 years, and now it’s the textile market with largest scale, completed equipment, and widest variety of products in the country, also the largest professional textile market in Asia.

Keqiao – textile production area in China
It would be unimaginable to live in a world where textiles are non-existent. We dress up and decorate our surroundings with fabrics. Around 83% of the globally produced textiles come from China. The largest production area of fabrics in China is Keqiao. A quarter of global textile production is sold there on the wholesale market. When choosing a Chinese textile manufacturer, it is worth going to such a market to get to know the products and then pay a visit to the factory of the company you are interested in. These types of visits can be combined with participation in trade shows, where you can also compare offers. Remember to choose the date of your visit wisely – it should not be on the same day as the most important Chinese holidays, which usually don’t fall on the same date every year.

About Keqiao
Keqiao is a district under Shaoxing, a prefectural city in Zhejiang Province. It is located in the “South Golden Wing” of the Yangtze River Delta, which is a densely populated area characterized by the fastest development and the strongest purchasing power in China.

Keqiao – textile production region in China
Located on the New Silk Road, Keqiao is China’s largest gathering place for textile companies and a global textile distribution center. Every year, USD 9 billion worth of fabrics are exported from here to every corner of the world.

China Textile City, founded in the 1980s, currently covers over 3.65 million square meters with over 22,000 textile enterprises and over 5,000 textile trading companies. Approximately 100,000 buyers make purchases here daily. China Textile City has a market turnover of over RMB 100 billion. This place has a wide range of goods, not only fiber, yarn and fabric, home textiles, and clothing, but it also offers technical fabrics and much more.

Location Jianhu No. 3, Keqiao, Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China

Below are some of the zones in China Textile City.

The northern part consists of 6 areas, each of them extending on 5-7 streets. You can buy various types of materials such as cotton, canvas, satin, lace, corduroy, and the like.
Tianhui Square: blackout materials, window screens, embroidery, and more.
Eastern area: sheets, cotton, leather, knitwear, and many more.
Dongsheng Road: a specialized knitting market.
Western area: denim.
Region of textile production in China. A Guide
How to get to Keqiao?
1. By plane
The fastest way to get to Shaoxing is to go by plane. To get to Keqiao, change from Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport by bus or taxi. The journey takes an hour to one and a half an hour. Buses to Keqiao leave from 8:10 AM to 9:20 PM, and the fare is 20 RMB.

2. By coach/bus
It is easy to get to Keqiao by bus. Almost every city in Zhejiang will have a connection to Shaoxing and getting from downtown Shaoxing to Keqiao takes about half an hour.

3. By train
The train is a convenient means of transport. For example, the journey from Shanghai to Shaoxing takes up to three hours, and the ticket costs from 40 to 280 RMB. The fastest train from Hangzhou arrives in Shaoxing in 19 minutes; it costs 15-24 RMB. The journey from Ningbo takes from half an hour to one and a half an hour; ticket prices range from 50 to 160 RMB. You can get to Keqiao by taxi or bus.