After the world's sewing machine industry has undergone the transfer from Europe, the United States to Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore, it has been fully transferred to China since the early 1990s. At the beginning of the 21st century, more than 70% of the world's sewing machine production was in China. However, 70%-90% of the domestic high-end machine market is occupied by Japanese and German companies. In terms of low-end sewing machine products, the world sewing machine industry has completed its transfer to China, and the industry transfer has gradually extended to mid-to-high end products. With the continuous intensification of competition in the sewing machinery manufacturing industry, mergers and acquisitions and capital operations among large sewing machinery manufacturing companies are becoming more frequent. Excellent domestic sewing machinery manufacturing companies are paying more and more attention to the research of the industry market, especially the industrial development environment and products. In-depth research by buyers. Because of this, a large number of excellent domestic sewing machinery brands have risen rapidly and have gradually become leaders in the sewing machinery manufacturing industry!
In 1869, Li Hongzhang, a representative of the Westernization Movement, visited Britain and brought back a gold-plated Singer sewing machine as a gift to Empress Dowager Cixi. At that time, the British media also reported the matter.
The earliest information that can be found for sewing machines entering the Chinese market today is an advertisement. On December 14, 1872, "Shen Bao" published a notice of "Sale of Garment Machines" by Jinlong Foreign Company. The notice said: "There are several newly arrived foreign sewing machines, each with a foreign price of 50 taels. If you want to purchase, please come to our bank to contact." At that time, the foreign company sold products from the American Singer Company (then called Singer Company).
Wang Tao, a famous thinker and political commentator in modern times, once described this machine. At that time, his neighbor was an American, and he had a Singer sewing machine in his house. In 1875, Wang Tao wrote: "There is a strange sewing machine from the West in the family, and the needle is wonderful, and there is a copper plate on it. , Hold the two wings, set the iron wheel under the needle, use the foot of the wooden board, the wheel rotates on its own, and the hand-held silk is full of feet, and the fine needles are densely threaded, which grows instantly."
Around 1880, Shengjia Company established Shanghai Feng Company on Nanjing Road, Shanghai (now 446 Nanjing East Road). In order to promote its products, the company hired Chinese female workers with higher remuneration. After training, they brought them to perform along the street with sewing machines and introduced the citizens to the operating methods of the sewing machines. Soon the Shengjia sewing machine became a well-known advanced garment machine in Shanghai.
For a long time, Shengjia has almost become synonymous with sewing machines, and it is also one of the western industrial products that entered China earlier. In China, sewing machines were called "iron carts", "foreign machines", and "sewing carts" in the earliest days. The last emperor Pu Yi gave Empress Wanrong a Shengjia sewing machine, which shows that it was still a rare thing in China at that time.
In 1905, Shanghai first began to manufacture sewing machine parts and established some small workshops for the production of parts.
In 1928, the first 44-13 industrial sewing machine was produced by Shanghai Xiechang Sewing Machine Factory. In the same year, Shanghai Shengmei Sewing Machine Factory also produced the first household sewing machine.
Before 1949, the output of sewing machines in the entire old China was very low, with an annual output of less than 4,000 units. At that time, the sewing equipment market was dominated by the American Singer Company.
After the founding of New China in 1949, the sewing machinery industry has been fully developed. The industry has gone through reorganization and transformation stages, public-private partnerships, mergers and cooperation, and a reasonable division of labor has formed a group of backbone enterprises: such as Shanghai's Che, Chang Sewing machine manufacturers such as, Huigong, Flying Man, Butterfly and Tianjin Sewing Machine Factory and South China Sewing Machine Factory in Guangzhou, mainly produce ordinary household sewing machines and low-end industrial sewing machines.
At the end of the 1950s, the light industry implemented generalization and standardization of household sewing machines, unified design drawings, improved compatibility of parts, and increased sewing machine manufacturers, and developed sunflower fans, medical operations, badminton, and badminton as needed. Sewing machines for special purposes such as splicing bicycle tires and cord fabrics. According to the statistics.
As of 1980, there were 56 sewing machine manufacturers nationwide, distributed in 22 provinces and cities. As of 1982, the output of sewing machines in my country reached 12.86 million sets, ranking first in the world.
By the mid-1980s, with the continuous adjustment of the market and consumption structure, the product structure of sewing equipment was developing in the direction of high-speed and serialization on the basis of medium and low-speed industrial sewing machines. Electronic and computer technologies were also widely used in sewing machines. . At the same time, my country has also completed the establishment of a supporting system for parts and components, and established a huge sales network of sewing machines. After introducing advanced foreign technology, some sewing machine companies digest and absorb advanced technology.
In the early 1990s, famous international companies entered China one after another, setting up joint ventures and wholly-owned enterprises in China.
In the late 1990s, private enterprises began to rise, and the major adjustment of the industrial structure promoted the development of the industry. In general, six major production areas and bases including Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shaanxi, Tianjin and Guangzhou were formed.
As of 2004, my country has more than 600 complete sewing machine manufacturers and more than 1,000 spare parts manufacturers, with an annual production volume of 14.008 million units, a total production value of about 28 billion yuan, and nearly 1,000 varieties. It has become the world's main sewing machine. One of the countries that produce machinery.
Sewing machines can be divided into household sewing machines, industrial sewing machines, and service industry sewing machines located between the two according to the purpose of the sewing machine; according to the driving mode, they can be divided into manual, pedal and electric sewing machines; according to the sewing thread Traces can be divided into imitation hand stitch stitches, lock stitches, single-thread chain stitches, double-thread or multi-thread chain stitches, single-thread or multi-thread overwrap chain stitches and multi-thread covered chain stitch sewing machines .
