The sewing machine industry in the world has experienced the transfer from Europe and the United States to Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore. Since the early 1990s, it has been fully transferred to China. At the beginning of the 21st century, more than 70% of the world's sewing machine output has been in China. However, 70% - 90% of the domestic high-end machine market is occupied by Japanese and German enterprises. As for the middle and low end sewing machine products, the world sewing machine industry has completed the transfer to China, and the industrial transfer has gradually extended to the middle and high end products. With the increasing competition in the sewing machine manufacturing industry, mergers and acquisitions and capital operation among large sewing machine manufacturing enterprises are becoming more and more frequent. Excellent domestic sewing machine manufacturing enterprises pay more and more attention to the research on the industry market, especially the in-depth research on the industrial development environment and product buyers. Because of this, a large number of excellent domestic sewing machinery brands have risen rapidly and gradually become the leaders in the sewing machinery manufacturing industry!
In 1980, China introduced the first sewing machine from the United States. In 1905, Shanghai first began to manufacture sewing machine parts, and set up some small parts production workshops.
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 old China was very low, with an annual output of less than 4000 sets. At that time, the sewing equipment market was mainly monopolized by American Shengjia company.
After the founding of new China in 1949, the sewing machinery industry has been fully developed. The industry has gone through the stages of reorganization and transformation, public-private partnership, merger and cooperation, and reasonable division of labor, forming a number of backbone enterprises: such as Shanghai's Qie, Chang, Huigong, Feiren, butterfly, Tianjin sewing machine factory and Guangzhou's South China Sewing machine factory, It mainly produces ordinary household sewing machines and industrial sewing machines.
At the end of the 1950s, the light industry implemented the generalization of household sewing machines. Standardized, agreed to the design drawings, improved the compatibility of parts, increased the number of sewing machine manufacturers, and developed sewing machines for special purposes such as sunflower fans, medical surgery, badminton, bicycle tires and cord fabric splicing. According to statistics, as of 1980, there were 56 sewing machine manufacturers in 22 provinces and cities. By 1982, China's output of sewing machines had reached 12.86 million, ranking first in the world.
By the mid-1980s, with the continuous adjustment of market and consumption structure, the product structure of sewing equipment was developing towards high speed and serialization on the basis of medium and low speed industrial sewing machines, and electronic and computer technology was also widely used in sewing machines. At the same time, China has also completed the establishment of parts supporting system, and built a huge sewing machine sales network. Some sewing machine enterprises digest and absorb advanced technology after quoting foreign advanced technology.
In the early 1990s, famous international enterprises entered China one after another and set up joint ventures and wholly-owned enterprises in China.
In the late 1990s, state-owned enterprises began to rise, and the great adjustment of industrial structure promoted the great development of the industry. On the whole, six production areas and bases were formed, including Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shaanxi, Tianjin and Guangzhou.
As of 2004, there are more than 600 sewing machine manufacturers and more than 1000 spare parts manufacturers in China, with an annual output of 14.09 million sets, a total output value of about 28 billion yuan and nearly 1000 varieties. It has become one of the major sewing machine manufacturers in the world.
According to the use of sewing machines, sewing machines can be divided into household sewing machines, industrial sewing machines and service industry sewing machines; According to the driving mode, it can be divided into hand operated, foot operated and electric sewing machines; According to the stitches, it can be divided into hand like stitches, lock stitches, single line chain stitches, double line or multi line chain stitches, single line or multi line wrapped chain stitches and multi line covered chain stitches.