On October 15th, the 2025 Textile and Apparel Growth Brand Conference was held in Changshu, Jiangsu Province. Xia Lingmin, Secretary-General of the China National Textile and Apparel Council, Zhang Fasong, Vice President of the Jiangsu Textile Industry Association, Wan Xiaojun, member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Changshu Municipal Committee and Vice Mayor of the Changshu Municipal Government, and over 160 industry experts, market representatives and brand representatives from across the country attended this conference together.

Focus on AI empowerment and jointly draw a new blueprint for the industry

Today, as the wave of artificial intelligence sweeps across all industries, the textile and garment industry is embracing unprecedented opportunities for transformation. From R&D, design, production to marketing, artificial intelligence is deeply empowering the entire textile and garment industry chain, driving the textile industry towards a new path of intelligence, personalization and high efficiency. Against this backdrop, holding this conference not only focuses on the new path of intelligent development in the industry, but also relies on Changshu's solid industrial foundation to provide a new channel for cooperation, exchange and resource sharing for growing brands.

Xu Jianhua, the president of the Circulation Branch of the China National Textile and Apparel Council, pointed out in his speech that in the face of the new normal of "resilience and progress together" in the industry, artificial intelligence is driving systematic changes throughout the entire industrial chain. He emphasized that growth-oriented brands, as key hubs connecting supply and demand, should adhere to technology-driven development, delve deeply into cultural connotations, practice green concepts, focus on user experience, and achieve comprehensive improvement through AI empowerment, fashion shaping, sustainable transformation, and health orientation. Xu Jianhua called on brand enterprises to maintain strategic resolve and innovative courage, adhere to the path of original development, and achieve steady and long-term progress through integrated innovation.

Wan Xiaojun, member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Changshu Municipal Committee and vice mayor of the Changshu Municipal Government, in his speech, reviewed the industrial development path of Changshu hosting the China Textile and Apparel Growth Brand Conference for nine consecutive years. Today, Changshu has become an important benchmark city in the national textile and garment industry. Its industrial scale has steadily exceeded 100 billion yuan, and it has over 1,700 new force brands growing simultaneously, forming a complete industrial chain from R&D and design to marketing. He said that Changshu is making every effort to build the regional brand of "Fashionable Changshu", hoping to use the platform of the conference to enable more industry colleagues to understand the industrial advantages of Changshu. He also hopes to have in-depth exchanges and collaborative innovation with entrepreneurs to jointly build Changshu into a global innovation highland for the textile and garment industry.

Wang Shuiyuan, vice president and secretary-general of the China Textile Industry Enterprise Management Association and vice president of the China National Textile and Apparel Council Circulation Branch, presided over this conference.

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