Hong Kong Dedicated to Becoming World Fashion CenterTextile Council of Hong Kong recently brought up an idea for building Hong Kong into an oriental fashion center, hoping to develop Hong Kong into another world fashion center following New York, London, Paris and Milan with the help and support of Hong Kong government.The council listed 15 concrete suggestions including establishment of a fashion design bureau, a design center, an exhibition center, a fashion avenue, and cultivation of more professional designers in order to promote exchanges with world fashion circle. Report by the council also suggests that the former water police headquarters near Tsim Sha Tsui be built into a fashion complex including fashion stores, T-platforms, fashion databank, material warehouse and others to provide best services. The report also put forward putting up a fashion display center in the new airport and a fashion avenue at the Causeway bay to attract more people engaging in fashion industry and foster more local fashion designers so as to create more famous fashion brands. So far, Hong Kong's ready-made clothing industry plays a very important role in HK's economy. In 1999, output value of ready-made clothing industry accounted for 18.6 percent of HK's manufacturing industry to reach 39.5 billion Hong Kong dollars and plus the export volume from transit trade, the total trading volume hit 77.4 Hong Kong dollars. Hong Kong is now a large ready-made garment exporter in the world second only to China's mainland. By PD Online staff member Li Yan |
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