As China's largest non-pastoral sheep breeding city and the nation's top cashmere-producing municipality, Yulin's cashmere industry is leveraging resource accumulation, supply chain integration, technological empowerment, and government-enterprise collaboration to complete a magnificent transformation from a "raw material warehouse" to a "high-end manufacturing center," expanding from the Loess Plateau to the global stage.
In Shaanxi's Yulin, the sheep industry serves as the "engine" of local economic development, with cashmere acting as the key "bridge" connecting this engine to the world. From breeding farms to production lines, from design studios to exhibition platforms, every segment contributes to enhancing the quality of Yulin cashmere. Scientific breeding establishes a solid raw material foundation, intelligent manufacturing elevates production standards, and market development strengthens regional branding. This represents not only an upgrading model for traditional industries but also an economic blueprint woven by a city using cashmere as its medium.
The Yuyang District Light Textile Industrial Park in Yulin serves as an important platform and cluster hub for the comprehensive upgrading of Yulin's cashmere industry. The park focuses on "intelligent, green, and clustered" development, prioritizing the introduction of high-end textile, cashmere deep-processing, and garment manufacturing enterprises, promoting upstream and downstream collaboration to gradually form a complete chain from raw materials to finished products.
Currently, the park has attracted over 20 enterprises, including Hongtai Cashmere and Tonghai Cashmere. Among them, Shaanxi Tuocheng Cashmere Technology Co., Ltd.'s investment in the Tonghai Cashmere Textile Production Base has introduced advanced technology and equipment from Belgium, Germany, Italy, and other countries, establishing a comprehensive industrial chain production system integrating washing, combing, dyeing, spinning, weaving, and finishing.
Additionally, the park provides supporting platforms for exhibition and display, e-commerce live streaming, industrial incubation, and cashmere trading, offering full-cycle services to enterprises and supporting industrial development toward high-end, intelligent, and international directions.
Technology serves as the core driving force behind Yulin's cashmere industry transformation. For example, leveraging the Zizhou China-Europe International Rural Revitalization Industrial Park, Yingguo Industrial Co., Ltd. continuously injects innovative momentum throughout its comprehensive industrial chain layout of "forage planting - cashmere goat breeding - combing - dyeing and spinning - garment design - clothing manufacturing - online and offline sales," enabling quality and efficiency improvements in every segment through technological empowerment.
Design is becoming a crucial element in Yulin's cashmere industry transition from "manufacturing" to "creation." In recent years, Yulin has continuously enhanced products' cultural added value and market competitiveness through hosting design competitions, establishing creative platforms, and introducing fashion resources, actively promoting comprehensive industrial chain upgrading.
Currently, Yulin is actively cultivating local design talent, strengthening cultural narratives and fashion expression in product development. Simultaneously, it promotes deep integration of cashmere with sports, arts, tourism, and other sectors, forming a diversified product matrix of "function + culture + scenario," making "Yulin Cashmere" not only synonymous with high-quality raw materials but also an internationally recognizable fashion brand.
According to introductions, Yulin will focus on the "quality improvement and brand value enhancement" mainline, increasing support for intelligent production line and R&D center construction, continuously cultivating local design capabilities, promoting industrial cluster development, and creating highly recognizable regional public brands. Meanwhile, it will optimize industrial chain collaboration, expand e-commerce and cross-border trade channels, and accelerate the cashmere industry's advancement toward high-end markets.
Leveraging comprehensive industrial chain layout and technological innovation, Yulin's cashmere industry is accelerating its transition from the traditional "raw material export" model toward a new "brand manufacturing" framework integrating R&D, design, manufacturing, and sales. The northern frontier's "cashmere brilliance" not only warms clothing but also illuminates a splendid path of industrial revitalization and urban transformation.
