It is the hometown of "red gang tailors". The birthplace of modern Chinese clothing industry, China's first suit, the first Chinese tunic suit, the first Western-style clothes shop and the first suit tailoring book came from Ningbo.

Today, Ningbo has become China's largest garment production base, China's clothing brand base and export clothing brand base.

Ningbo has more than 3000 garment manufacturers, with nearly 1 billion 500 million garments produced annually, accounting for more than 13% of the total clothing output of the country.

YOUNGOR, Shan Shan, Luo Meng, Tonlion, Lopez, Taiping bird, and Luo Luo became 25 well-known trademarks and 20 famous Chinese brands.

Ningbo international clothing and Accessories Fair is an important economic and trade activity of UFI international certification brand, China's Ministry of Commerce, a class exhibition, China's most influential brand exhibition and Ningbo international clothing festival.

Taking the theme of "creative Ningbo and neon Orient" as the theme and "building a famous Chinese garment city" as the theme, the clothing fair aims to make Ningbo become the base of textile and garment production, the center of communication and the window of publication, and constantly improve the international and domestic influence of Ningbo's clothing industry through the activities of internationalization, branding, specialization and marketization.

Since 1997, "

"Began to become the city card of Ningbo.

As the core trade event, the clothing Expo has been ranked the top 5 professional fashion show in China in its first appearance at the 450 booth.

Over the years, the "Ningbo international garment Festival" has come to the fore in the industry along the road of marketization, specialization, internationalization and branding. It has been rated as "a class exhibition" and "the ten famous brand exhibition of China in 2005".

So far, the Ningbo international garment Festival has been successfully held for fifteen consecutive years, and has been awarded as one of the ten most influential festivals in China.

On the scale of the eighth Ningbo International Fashion Expo in 2004, there were 2000 booths in the whole exhibition hall, and the number of overseas exhibitions exceeded 25% for the first time, reaching the requirements of the international exhibition Federation for international exhibitions.

According to relevant authoritative media statistics, in the more than 200 garment festivals and exhibitions in China, the Ningbo International Garment Fair rose to second place in the number of exhibitors, the number of exhibitions, turnover and industry influence.

In 2005, the "Ningbo International Garment Fair" was renamed the "China International Clothing and Accessories Fair". It continued to shift the main function of the exhibition to "trade", from focusing on men's clothing to the products covered by clothing and apparel industry.

In the "trade fair", not only can we see men's wear, women's wear, children's clothing, but also we can see that

All kinds of upstream and downstream products include knitted garments, woven garments, leather garments, down garments, home textiles, accessories, clothing accessories, clothing CAD, clothing machinery, etc.

The exhibition broke through the traditional functional positioning, guided by the market, and continued to increase the invitations of export oriented enterprises such as export, processing, joint-venture and cooperation, and formed an efficient apparel and apparel trade platform integrating agency, franchise, wholesale, order, order, trade exchange and fashion publishing.