On November 9, 2026, the Jingzhou Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau in Hubei released an open letter to textile and garment practitioners from Jingzhou working in Guangzhou.
The letter cites the recent launch of urban renewal in the southern central-axis area of Haizhu District. It states that familiar garment clusters in Kangle, Lujiang, Datang and Shangchong will relocate, and that the hometown has seen the rush to adjust workshops, resettle businesses and the difficulties involved. “We know that everyone left home and worked from dawn until dark only to sustain a livelihood and look after their families,” the bureau wrote.
The bureau said workers have spent years in the textile and garment trade building skills, orders and contacts, calling them Jingzhou’s most valuable talent. With the industry adjusting, it hopes they will bring technology, orders and teams home to settle and build businesses. Listed support includes project awards and subsidies for return-home start-ups and a one-time entrepreneurship subsidy; interest subsidies on start-up loans and skills-training subsidies; one-stop help with registration and licensing; and backing for a “orders taken in Guangzhou, production in Jingzhou” model so existing markets are retained.
The bureau also said Jingzhou has issued dedicated policies supporting transfer of the textile and garment industry, available on return and settlement. It will coordinate buses and freight vehicles to move people and production equipment for those planning to return. From November 14 to 17 the city will hold a dedicated return-home entrepreneurship matching event in Guangzhou and invites Jingzhou natives considering a return to attend.
A 2023 Hubei Daily report described Haizhu District as a national base for garment processing and trade, with annual turnover of about 200 billion yuan. It described the Zhongda business area as an industry bellwether, and said urban villages such as Kangle and Lujiang nearby gathered tens of thousands of small and micro enterprises and hundreds of thousands of workers. The report said redevelopment of the villages, and the future of some 300,000 people from Hubei among them, concerned both Guangdong and Hubei.
According to that report, Guangdong intended to move Haizhu’s textile and garment industry to Qingyuan to build a trillion-yuan sector, and Qingyuan had sent high-level teams to Guangzhou five times to attract investment. Hubei’s provincial Party committee and government held a special meeting; the heads of the provincial departments of economy and information technology and of commerce led a team to Guangzhou for talks. Jingzhou, as the province’s only national-level demonstration zone for receiving relocated industry, was described as needing to move first.
