Industrial Development of Zhenhu Embroidery

Zhenhu's economic development is dominated by embroidery, clothing and other tertiary industries. Most Suzhou embroidery is produced in Zhenhu. Among the more than 20,000 people in Zhenhu, there are nearly 8,000 embroidered mothers. 1998, a special embroidery street integrating production, sales and tourism was built in Zhenhu, with a length of about 1700 meters, which attracted more than 300 embroidery business households, making Zhenhu embroidery products form a "agglomeration effect" and effectively promoting the development of Zhenhu embroidery market. In 2005, Embroidery Street received 65,438+086,000 embroidery tourists, many of whom came from France, Britain, South Korea, New Zealand, Singapore, Japan, Taiwan Province Province and other countries and regions for cultural tourism and short-term study classes. Embroidery has become an attractive tourist card for Zhenhu. At the same time, Zhenhu has become the production base and distribution center of embroidery products, which are distributed in large and medium-sized cities all over the country and exported to developed countries and regions such as Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Europe and America. By 2006, the number of embroidery employees in Zhenhu reached 1 1000, accounting for two-thirds of the total labor force in Zhenhu. Among them, there are more than 8,000 embroidered mothers; More than 3,000 people are engaged in the sales, design, mounting, framing, transportation, fabric and silk thread supply of embroidery products. In 2005, the annual sales of Zhenhu embroidery reached 498 million yuan. Zhenhu embroidery not only inherits the essence of Suzhou embroidery, but also absorbs the ideas and skills of other embroidery arts, and constantly brings forth the new. Some embroidery products are presented to foreign VIPs as national gifts.