A newly operational dyeing factory in Jiangxi’s De’an County achieved a production value of 30 million yuan in just five months, targeting 130 million yuan for the full year. This is not a case from coastal industrial clusters but from the Fenglin Industrial New Zone in De’an. The factory, relying on smart production lines, reports a product superior rate exceeding 99%, with its woven chemical fabrics mainly exported to Europe and America, and orders booked through August.
More significantly, De’an’s textile and garment cluster posted 2025 operating revenue of 15.013 billion yuan, up 23.85% year-on-year. In an industry facing order fragmentation and margin compression, this growth rate warrants close analysis.
Smart Transformation: From Single-Point Efficiency to Full-Chain Coordination
The above case is not isolated. Another textile group in De’an is also running at full capacity, supplying functional and knitted fabrics to the domestic market and garments to Europe, America, and Southeast Asia. Both companies have fully connected to the park’s “five unifications” service—centralized heat, water supply, wastewater treatment, reclaimed water, and sludge disposal.
This infrastructure pooling directly lowers enterprise construction and operation thresholds. Previously, dyeing firms had to build their own wastewater treatment and boiler systems, costing tens of millions of yuan and carrying high environmental compliance risks. Now, the park handles these, allowing enterprises to focus capital and energy on smart upgrades.
One company, through a 5G smart factory with MES and WMS systems, achieved 25% higher production efficiency and 15% lower labor costs. This means shorter delivery cycles and improved profit margins on comparable order volumes.
Industrial Brain and Green Factories: The Logic Behind Regional Branding
De’an is not simply replicating coastal models. Its “De’an Weaving” regional brand relies on the province’s only textile industry “industrial brain” to scale digital transformation benchmarks. This top-level design links individual company upgrades with park infrastructure, environmental standards, and talent development.
The De’an High-tech Zone has been certified as a national-level green park, with multiple enterprises earning national or provincial green factory status. For foreign buyers, this means significantly lower environmental compliance risks, especially as European and American brands increasingly demand supply chain carbon footprint tracing. Green-certified capacity will attract more orders.
The cluster now forms a closed-loop chain from spinning, weaving, dyeing, to garment processing, with over 400 operating enterprises, including 68 above-designated-size firms. This vertical integration allows orders to be completed entirely within the park, reducing logistics losses and delivery uncertainties.
Practical Implications for Buyers and Foreign Trade Firms
For fabric buyers, De’an’s capacity expansion offers a new supplier option beyond traditional Keqiao and Shengze, with scale and cost advantages. Increased output of woven chemical and functional fabrics may help stabilize or lower market prices for similar products.
For foreign trade firms, the high and growing share of overseas orders from De’an factories indicates product quality and delivery reliability recognized by European and American markets. However, the cluster’s capacity is currently fully utilized, so new orders may face longer lead times. It is advisable to lock in capacity early or develop backup suppliers.