From January to October this year, Xinji, Hebei Province, produces various types of products Leather clothing 4.8 million pieces, sales revenue of 4.63 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 8%, foreign exchange earnings of nearly 400 million U.S. dollars, a year-on-year increase of 20.6%. This is the actual effect achieved by Xinji city by taking effective means of transformation and upgrading such as building platform, creating brand and expanding market.

Leather industry is one of the leading industries in Xinji city. There are 1356 leather enterprises with more than 80000 employees. Xinji city is the largest sheepskin clothing production base in China and the largest sheepskin leather manufacturing base in Asia, the national foreign trade transformation and upgrading professional demonstration base named by the Ministry of Commerce, and "China leather and leather clothing city" named by China Light Industry Association and Leather Association. Leather industry plays an important role in local economic support.

How to take advantage of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, take the lead in the transformation and upgrading of the leather industry and take the lead in promoting the industrial economic vitality of Xinji city is a new topic in front of Xinji municipal Party committee and municipal government. Through in-depth study of the spirit of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Xinji municipal government, through extensive research and demonstration, agreed that only by abandoning the traditional thinking set, daring to open up and innovate, through benchmarking high-end, building an international first-class shopping mall, creating a domestic trade platform, attracting the world's top brands, speeding up the upgrading of leather products, Only by focusing on energy conservation and emission reduction, building a national circular economy demonstration base, speeding up the transformation and upgrading of leather industry, and striving to realize the four major changes, namely, from highly dependent on foreign trade to foreign trade and domestic trade, from quantity oriented to quality-benefit type, from Xinji manufacturing to Xinji creation, and from simple and extensive development to intensive, efficient and environmental protection development, can we achieve four major changes Xinji leather industry The traditional foreign trade base has burst out unprecedented development vitality.

Improve the logistics function of the base to provide strong support for domestic and foreign trade. Xinji city actively strives for the support of Hebei provincial government and relevant national ministries and commissions, and successfully establishes Longhai logistics bonded warehouse, Shijiazhuang customs Xinji office, Hebei entry exit inspection and Quarantine Bureau Xinji office, and State Administration of foreign exchange Xinji branch, becoming the only county-level foreign trade port with complete functions in Hebei Province.

Attract international brands. The international leather city market is positioned as the "wholesale and retail base for medium and high-grade leather products". It attracts international and domestic brand enterprises to settle in through various cooperation ways, and strives to build a leather trade and trade distribution center based on North China and facing the world, striving to develop into "China's largest scale, the most complete variety, the highest grade, the most famous brands, and the best service The world famous leather products trading center has attracted 800 international and domestic merchants, including 32 world top consumer brands such as montejiao, Jinlilai and laotoutou. The entry of these brands, advanced management methods and marketing concepts will inevitably have a strong impact on local leather products, thus accelerating the transformation and upgrading of leather industry and upgrading of leather products.

We should focus on energy conservation and emission reduction, unswervingly take the road of clean production, build a national circular economy demonstration base, and lead Leather industry The road of green development is to further consolidate the national environmental protection advantages and lay a solid foundation for the sustained and rapid development of leather industry. Xinji city of Hebei Province actively implements the national clean production circular economy demonstration base project, and successfully explores the development mode of green environmental protection, energy saving and emission reduction of leather industry in China. Explore comprehensive management and energy reuse. Efforts have been made to strengthen the treatment of tannery solid waste. Three key projects, namely sludge incineration for power generation, utilization of waste leather scraps to produce regenerated leather and chrome tanning agent from chrome residue, have been officially signed recently. After the completion of these projects, zero discharge of tannery waste will be realized.