"Textile Capital" Keqiao to Host 2025 the 8th World Textile Merchandising Conference

Shaoxing, China--(Newsfile Corp. - October 14, 2025) - China's "Textile Capital" Keqiao is set to host the 2025 8th World Textile Merchandising Conference in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, from November 6 to 8, under the theme "International Competition and Cooperation: Restructuring the Global Textile Value Chain," according to a press briefing held in Beijing.

The conference will focus on collaborative innovation and sustainable development in the global textile industry, exploring cutting-edge trends such as AI empowerment in manufacturing, value chain restructuring, and fashion innovation. It aims to build an open platform for dialogue, cooperation and shared growth within the international textile community.

The event will be held alongside the 2025 Keqiao International Textile Expo (Autumn), Keqiao Fashion Week (Autumn), and the WGSN Fashion Future Conference.

As the permanent venue of the World Textile Merchandising Conference, Keqiao has actively advanced the modernization of the textile industry empowered by new quality productive forces in recent years. It has deepened the integrated development of the “two new” — new technologies and new models; launched China’s first large-scale textile industry model; accelerated the application of artificial intelligence; and promoted the digital, green, and fashion-oriented transformation of the textile sector, continuously enhancing its reputation as the “International Textile Capital.”

Sun Ruizhe, Party Secretary and President of the China National Textile and Apparel Council (CNTAC), noted that the textile and apparel industry serves as an economic link connecting global markets and a bridge for the exchange of diverse cultures, as well as a key platform for promoting industrial integration and development.

Sun Ruizhe said that in 2024, China's textile industry recorded a trade volume of 81.34 billion U.S. dollars in intermediate products such as chemical fibers, yarns, and fabrics, demonstrating strong resilience and global coordination capacity. Facing intensified global competition and structural transformation, the Chinese textile industry will continue to advance along the path of "technology, fashion, green and health", nurturing new quality productive forces and contributing "Chinese solutions and textile wisdom" to global industrial chain collaboration.