Qingdao Shousheng Industrial Co Ltd， headquartered in Jiaodong Street of Jiaozhou City， became one of the key partners of IKEA （China） Investment Co Ltd， which is eager to start sales in Qingdao shopping malls recently， and agreed to provide6 million sets of photo frames and mirror frames． Not just IKEA， many Fortune500 companies are turning their eyes to vendors in Jiaozhou of Qingdao． According to the statistics， more than100 Jiaozhou companies have become the partners of international giants， and the number is still increasing．

As the European largest garment retailer that is famous among Chinese， H＆M is an important client of the Qingdao Huanqiu Garments Co Ltd， which is a Qingdao state－owned company enjoying a long history． Taking the world’s largest online garment， accessory and daily use item retailer German OTTO and world’ leading online fashion and home furnishing distributor and garments and daily use item retailer French Redcats into calculation， international famous garments companies purchase over1 million pieces of garments from Huanqiu every year．

Besides home furnishing and garments， Fortune500 companies’ partners in Jiaozhou have also been involved in various fields， including home appliances， auto， and equipment manufacturing industries． The Qingdao Haishihao Plastic Co Ltd invests greatly in technological innovation to explore international markets， offering module design and module matching service to Samsung and LG， both are home appliance giants from South Korea． Qingdao Doright Co Ltd， which specializes in boiler energy－saving device， already is the vendor of over10 international famous giant companies， e．g． Mitsubishi from Japan， Bayer from Germany， and Columbia from US．

The Qingdao Zhangshi Group， headquartered in Jiaoxi town of Jiaozhou city， is an auto parts vendor for Benz， BMW and Audi，3 famous high－class vehicle brands． After many years’ efforts， piston rob for automobile supporting air spring developed by Zhangshi Group are widely used in vehicles of all mainstream brands and takes25％ global market．“Our piston product have more than10 sizes， some counterparts have visited us， and they felt it is easy， but cannot make it．” The tech team leader Zhang Maocai of the group said：“Our product must meet extremely strict requirements，1 millimeter error means the product becomes waste．” （Liu Dai）

［Foreign clients checked production technologies in plant of Qingdao Huanqiu Garments Co Ltd．  By Liu Dai］

2．  Qingdao Doright developed pioneer product for the5^th time

Qingdao Doright Co Ltd， a national high－tech company headquartered in Jiaozhou city， received other good news recently． Its new product， the flat round collecting pipe quench boiler was designated as the pioneer （set of） key tech equipment model program of China． It’s the5^th time for the company to get such honor， following950℃extreme－h(huán)igh temperature shell－and－tube heat exchanger，60，000－tonne／year black drum dryer， large diameter pipe waste heat boiler， sleeve type quench boiler． The company thus becomes the only company in Qingdao got5 pioneer product of China．

Qingdao currently has81 national pioneer product projects，5 of which were received by Doright， which is a rising star among micro－and－small enterprises of Qingdao．

Flat round collecting pipe quench boiler technology was an innovative technology in China． It reached the domestic leading level and is applied in petrochemical and carbon black production industries． The technology not only enables water and steam flow speed acceleration inside the pipe， but also is able to increase thermal stress absorption， ensuring equipment undamaged that may brought by overheat．

Doright now is the qualified vendor for SinoPec， PetroChina， CNOOC， and professional carbon black equipment supporting supplier for Black Cat Carbon Black Co Ltd， Longxing Chemical Stock Co Ltd and Suzhou Baohua Carbon Black Co Ltd， as well as the global equipment－supporting supplier for over10 multi－national companies， including GE and Richardson Electronics of the US， Moser of Germany， Philips India， Mitsubishi and Tokai Carbon of Japan． （Liu Dai）

3．  Qingdao： he took72 seconds to pick1 from3，000

“72 seconds！” the crowd busted into exclamation after Yang Fan， a player from Qingdao Jifa Group， completed wrong needle picking game in the2017 Weft Knitting Worker of Knitting Industry Vocational Skill Game of Shandong Province on19^thOctober．

12 skilled workers from11 leading textile companies of Shandong were attracted to join the game． According to the rules， wrong needle picking games requires the player to pick a wrong needle from over3，200 needles of a loom within120 seconds． It challenged players’ eyesight， experience and site performance．

Yang Fan was majored in knitting industry in Shandong Vocational College of Science and Technology， and joined Jifa Group for weft knitting work after graduated in2009． （Zhang Hua）

［Yang Fan joined the game with earnest attitude． By Xing Zhifeng］

4．  Jimo of Qingdao： famous city for children’s garments in China

The2017 China Jimo children’s garments festival， the1^st children’s garments festival in China， will be kicked off in the later November， one－month－long international garments purchase activity will be put on during the same period． In the key transition period of economic growth motivation， Qingdao encourages children’s garments industry as a traditional industry to burgeon forth and grow into a new world of garments industry．

Jimo of Qingdao is the nation’s3^rd largest children’s garments production base and the largest children’s garments production base in Northern China， following Humen area of Foshan of Guangdong province and Hangzhou／Huzhou areas of Zhejiang province． The city now has over5，000 children’s garments companies， which brought over CNY26 billion annual production value． Through over30 years’ great efforts， Jimo walked to today． In recent years， as China adjusted its family planning policy， children’s garments industry faces new opportunity because of strong market demand． Children’s garments industry of Jimo accumulated steadily to concentrate industry and brand influence is emerging．In2016， China Federation of Textile Industry named Jimo as Famous Children’s Garments City of China． （Zhang Hua）

［Workers introduced self－owned brand children’s garments to the client in Qingdao Youpin shenghuo Company． By Xing Zhifeng］