Qinghe sheep cashmere production and sales of a sudden rise of 100,000 tons per year accounted for 75% of the national market

Xingtai, Xingtai, September 26th (Zhang Pengxiang, Yan Xiuzhen, Ni Limin) “The daily turnover here is over 80 tons, the peak period is over 200 tons, and the annual trading volume is more than 30,000 tons.” Head of Qinghe County Kyoto Wool Exchange Center Dong said.

On the 26th, the reporter saw at the Kyoto Wool Trade Center on the 308 National Road in Qinghe County, Hebei Province. In the modern warehouse of 4,000 square meters, the sheep wool of each place and category was piled up neatly and orderly, specially for loading and unloading. The wool forklift shuttles back and forth, very busy. In Qinghe County, there are seven or eight large-scale wool trading centers such as Kyoto, Wanyou, Chengxin and Siyuan.

“In recent years, sheep velvet products have been favored by more and more consumers with low price, delicate hand feeling and lubrication. The cashmere products such as shirts, pants, scarves and coats have entered the homes of ordinary people. The raw materials for weaving sheep wool products ― "Sheep cashmere, is also becoming a hot commodity on the market, the price per kilogram has increased by more than ten dollars." Cashmere merchant Chen Jing said.

"Now the cashmere business is very good, and it is not clear on the spot." Yang Jinzhong from Gansu said that he bought sheep wool in the local and surrounding cities, and then pulled it to Qinghe for sale. He will wait seven or eight times a year in Qinghe. Months. The collected sheep wool was traded at the Wool Trading Center, and most of them were purchased by local processing households in Qinghe. They then used the carding machine to comb the cashmere and sold it to local fabric manufacturers.

With the continued boom in the cashmere market, the production and processing of cashmere has become the mainstream business of local small and medium-sized businesses. Xielu Town is a major town of sheep cashmere combing. It has 59 administrative villages under its jurisdiction. Almost every village has sheep and cashmere combs. The town has 11,000 softening machines and nearly 20,000 employees. In the town Tiantaihe Village, there are 163 households with 730 people, and every household has a carding machine, with an annual profit of about 7 million yuan. Relying on the cashmere comb, most of the villagers in the village have lived a well-off life.

"Now the market for cashmere is good, and the cashmere is good to sell. There are more than 30,000 net profit per month." Yan Baoli, a villager in Tiantaihe Village, said that he originally had only 6 carding machines and recently plans to expand the scale. A small courtyard in the village is going to rent and install 5 softening machines.

Cashmere combing originated in the 1980s. At that time, the development of the cashmere industry in Qinghe County was in dire straits. The local people used the cashmere combing technology to start combing the sheep wool. After trial and error, they successfully combed the cashmere in the soil sheep wool. The four kinds of fibers of fluff, coarse hair, bisexual hair and silk hair contained in heterogeneous sheep hair have obvious distinctions, and their performances have been used. This has ended the long history of mixing "velvet" and "hair".

Wang Jingjun, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of Qinghe County Committee, said that due to the low price of cashmere and the small amount of funds, it is suitable for farmers to operate and process. The processing of cotton wool and cashmere has been rapidly developed in Qinghe County. According to statistics from the Qinghe County Bureau of Commerce, Qinghe has an annual output of more than 100,000 tons of sheep cashmere from January to August, accounting for more than 75% of the national market share. (Finish)