A project with a total investment of 650 million yuan and an annual capacity of 60,000 tons of high-end knitted fabric is putting Kaiyuan, Yunnan, in the spotlight of textile industry transfer. On July 21, the construction of Yunnan Bohai Tai Textile Co., Ltd.'s 60,000-ton knitted fabric project officially started in Kaiyuan Green Textile Science and Technology Park. When fully operational, it is expected to achieve an annual output value of over 1 billion yuan, annual tax payments of more than 14 million yuan, and direct employment for over 1,200 people.
What does the landing of 60,000 tons of knitted fabric capacity mean for southern Yunnan, a region long dominated by resource-based industries? A key clue comes from Bai Limin, Deputy Director of the Industrial Park Office of the China National Textile and Apparel Council: Kaiyuan Green Textile Science and Technology Park is the only industrial park in Yunnan Province with complete textile dyeing and printing capacity, and it has been integrated into the Hekou Border Industrial Park planning since 2023. This indicates that the project is not an isolated capacity expansion but a critical part of the national border-opening strategy.
Logic of Industrial Transfer: From Guangzhou Zhongda to Kaiyuan
Bohai Tai's parent company, Guangzhou Delaikai Textile Co., Ltd., is one of the 'Top 10 Fabric Stores' in Guangzhou's Zhongda fabric market, with annual sales exceeding 1 billion yuan. The move from a leading fabric hub in Guangzhou to a production base in Kaiyuan clearly reflects the deep logic of textile capacity shifting from the east to the southwest border areas.
At the launch ceremony, General Manager Xu Yanjie highlighted two core considerations for choosing Kaiyuan: first, abundant local clean energy significantly reduces steam and electricity costs, supporting green and low-carbon production; second, the location near Kunming and adjacent to the Hekou port opens up both domestic and Southeast Asian markets. These two points directly address the pain points of current textile enterprises: high energy costs and the need for dual-market connectivity.
Dong Shuxiu, Vice President of the China Dyeing and Printing Association, emphasized that the southwest is a core receiving area for domestic textile industry transfer. The Bohai Tai project fills a gap in the local high-end knitted fabric industry chain, which is significant for improving the industrial cluster and boosting employment. From an industry perspective, this project is not just capacity expansion for a single company but an experiment in matching mature eastern fabric capacity with the energy and location advantages of the southwest.
Green and Smart: Hard Constraints for a New Southwest Textile Benchmark
The project plans to build 20 modern intelligent knitted fabric production lines, with a full capacity of 60,000 tons of high-end knitted fabric annually. But more noteworthy is its green and smart technology roadmap. Dong Shuxiu proposed three directions for the park's future development: adhere to green production by promoting low-liquor ratio dyeing, water reuse, and waste heat recovery; deepen digital technology empowerment by deploying MES and ERP intelligent management systems; and seize RCEP policy dividends by building a 'domestic weaving + Southeast Asian garment' collaborative industrial chain via the port.
This means the Bohai Tai project has been set with high technical thresholds from the start. For buyers, the filling of the high-end knitted fabric supply gap will bring more stable local supply. For factories, the adoption of smart management systems and green processes will directly reduce unit energy consumption and wastewater discharge, thereby affecting production costs and product pricing.
Bai Limin's three development expectations further clarify the direction: promote east-west industrial synergy by linking upstream and downstream in the east to complete spinning and garment supporting; tap the border-opening potential to build a 'southern Yunnan fabric, Southeast Asian garment, European and American sales market' synergy; and strive to build a green, low-carbon park aligned with national green park standards.