Zhuji Datang: from imitation to innovation "socks of the capital" coruscate new vitality

Zhuji Datang known as "international socks" reputation, from the initial imitation of "foreign socks", to the annual output of more than 20 billion pairs of socks, and now the socks art town, 70 years, datang people continue to give "socks capital" new connotation.

Silk stockings are the first "foreign socks" introduced into China. In the stocking museum of Datang, there are still British stockings sold in local department stores in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. This batch of the earliest imports, became the origin of the germination of datang socks industry. "In the early days, we were all making soil socks. Zhuji people had a spirit of" try it if you don't believe it ". So the earliest sock sellers began to think about making this' foreign socks' by themselves."

With the spirit of "three don't believe try", in the 1970s, a group of old socks workers gathered datang, their own transformation of the hand socks machine production socks. "A pair of socks can basically be sold for eight yuan, there is a yuan to earn, later became a group of people in the matching socks machine, so do, datang formed a private socks industry.

In 2015, Zhuji Hosiery Town emerged as The Times required. In 2018, Hosiery Town was included in the second batch of officially named provincial-level characteristic towns. Relying on the development of creativity and intelligentization, Datang has invested a total of 5 billion yuan of construction funds to explore a new way of development combining industry and tourism, and launched the "hosiery art tour" tourist line. "Through the new mode of industry and tourism, we break the traditional form of relying solely on hosiery industry, thus making our hosiery town more diversified, more dynamic and more bright."