The Asia Pacific region, with its strong textile manufacturing foundation and growing consumer demand, holds a dominant position in the global intimate apparel market, and is expected to account for over 40.2% of the global women's underwear market by 2025.

The Shantou production area is the best sample for observing the manufacturing of underwear in China. Shantou is the first textile and clothing industry cluster in China with an output value exceeding 100 billion yuan. It produces approximately 4 billion pairs of underwear, 1.2 billion pieces of underwear, and 150 million sets of home wear annually. It is one of the top 20 intimate clothing brands on domestic e-commerce platforms, with 85% of its supply coming from Shantou.

What is more noteworthy is that Shantou is building a "50 kilometer closed-loop" full industry chain ecology: from upstream nylon spinning to printing and dyeing weaving, to garment processing and e-commerce sales, all links are completed within about 50 kilometers of Chaoyang and Chaonan districts. By the end of 2025, the nylon production capacity will increase from the original 17000 tons to 475000 tons, and the shortage of upstream raw materials will be accelerated. The Shantou International Textile City, with a total investment of 30.5 billion yuan, has attracted over a thousand enterprises.

Core insight: Shantou's production area is moving from "leading in scale" to "independent and controllable throughout the entire chain", and this level of industrial agglomeration depth is a barrier that other regions find difficult to replicate. For underwear companies deeply rooted in Shantou, supply chain efficiency and synergy are natural advantages.