Over the years, by virtue of its love and dedication to the clothing industry, it has won the "China garment industry personal lifetime achievement Honor Award" at the sixteenth China International Clothing and Accessories Fair this year. The highest honor of the clothing industry is currently only two people in the country.

This is a very calm and plain old man with some sense of exertion.

Group photo with Valentino

Little tailor's ambition

In 1968, after graduating from high school, Liu Zengkai was assigned to the tailoring workshop of the Tianjin people's clothing factory. At that time, the clothing factory had a low status in people's mind and belonged to a company that looked down on people.

Although Liu Zengkai did not do the work of tailoring, who worked in the clothing factory was called tailor, and the tailor was tailoring. Many people wanted to add a "small" character in front of them, that is, "little tailor".

From this time on, Liu Zengkai really realized his status and realized the position of the garment industry.

Slowly, Liu Zengkai no longer cares if people call him "little tailor", but he is determined to do his best to make the garment industry develop and let the tailors straighten his chest.

Remembering the past, Liu Zengkai smiled and said that his love for clothes was forced out.

In 1986, Liu Zengkai was pferred to the office director of the clothing Research Institute of the city. Here is the largest exhibition hall in the country, specially displaying some newly designed samples for the selection of enterprises.

The main task of the Institute is to study how to improve technology, update fabrics and design new samples.

It can be said that the "clothing road" that Liu Zengkai is going to start from here is on the right track.

Catch up with your own business.

At this time, Liu Zengkai, who had been exposed to clothing for nearly 20 years, realized that the Japanese clothing enterprises were well known at that time because they paid much attention to intelligence work.

The so-called intelligence work mainly refers to the collection of domestic and foreign clothing in color, technology, fabric, style and so on the latest information and research domestic and foreign clothing trends.

Liu Zengkai's Institute also has such an intelligence department, only a small scale, with only a few staff members.

In order to be able to understand the clothing industry more directly and faster, Liu Zengkai volunteered to pfer to the intelligence department in 1991.

Liu Zengkai, 61, is the Secretary General of Tianjin textile and garment Productivity Promotion Center and director of the information center of Tianjin textile and clothing research institute.

Liu Zengkai wins the "Lifetime Achievement Award"

Reporter's notes:

In imagination, Liu Zengkai, who studies clothing, should be the one who wears unique and exquisite.

On the day of the interview, when I saw him, I negated all the previous assumptions.

The only thing that stood out was the big bag that he carried in his hand, which contained some clothing materials and photographs that he had collected over the years.

When it comes to these "precious things", Liu Zengkai's eyes will brighten up and take care to show them to me with pride.

And then quickly put it back and put it back into the bag.

　　想必，裝進大包里的不僅是資料和照片，還有對服裝業(yè)的一種感情和一份責任。