Shantou holds a conference on the new quality development of the close fitting clothing industry

On March 18th, during the 5th Chaoshan Fashion Expo, the 2026 China Intimate Apparel Industry New Quality Development Conference was held in Shantou. The conference, themed "AI Leading · Digital Intelligence Butterfly Transformation", brings together industry experts and enterprise representatives to explore how AI can empower traditional industries to transform and upgrade.

The conference released the "White Paper on Innovation and Upgrading of Home Clothing and Thermal Underwear Industry", which clearly proposes the industrial upgrading path of "smart wearables+green manufacturing+flexible supply chain". At the same time, the National Close fitting Clothing Industry Education Integration Community has been officially established, aiming to cultivate versatile talents and inject new momentum into industrial innovation.

It is worth noting that multiple cutting-edge explorations were shared at the conference: the combination of biosensing technology and underwear to achieve health monitoring functions, opening up a new value dimension for close fitting clothing from "wearing" to "guarding"; The "culture+AI" dual wheel drive model is committed to decoding cultural genes to enhance brand premium and promote the industry's transition from "scale leadership" to "value leadership".

2. The Clothing Industry Technology Innovation Conference clarifies the "two-step" strategy

From July 28th to 29th, the 2026 Clothing Industry Science and Technology Innovation Conference and Digital Transformation Supply and Demand Matchmaking Meeting will be held in Linping, Hangzhou. The China National Garment Association has clearly proposed the "two-step" strategic goal for the industry: to basically achieve the goal of building a strong brand country by 2035 and to build a fashion country by the middle of this century.

The conference deployed nine major clothing technology innovation paths, including AI intelligent applications, intelligent equipment iteration, green and low-carbon transformation, and intelligent wearable technology, with a total of 28 key tasks. Industry experts pointed out that the current large-scale application of AI is reconstructing the whole chain of clothing design, production and marketing. The industry needs to break the bottleneck of data islands and different standards, and rely on the industrial Internet to promote the gradient construction of digital workshops and intelligent factories.