The family and the country - the struggle is at the right time 丨 female employees more than 85%, female management accounted for 65%, as well as the “mother post”, this is your “dream factory”?  |Media source: All-China Women's Federation Women's Voices|

“There is a 'mom job', work time is more free; daily wages ranging from 150 RMB to 300 RMB; team building activities are colorful ......” at the beginning of 2025, HT Fashion(Shandong) HRX (Wenshang) Garment Co., Ltd. large-scale recruitment, this video version of the recruitment notice will soon be in the local circle of friends of many people “screen”. In addition to wages, benefits, etc., the video screen presents a clean, bright, modernized workplace, but also changed the impression of people on the garment processing enterprises.

Yu Jin, administrative director of HT Fashion, told China Women's Daily all-media reporter that “HRX” is the earliest clothing production and processing base established by the HT, and the total staff of the factory has reached more than 1,000, which provides more jobs and opportunities for local residents. “In addition to Wenshang County, HT Fahion has also established garment processing bases in Jining Rencheng, Heze Juye and other places. In order to expand overseas markets, we 2024 also built our own garment processing factory in Cambodia.” Yu Jin said that at present, HT Fashion's annual output of garments is 26 million pieces, with annual sales reaching more than 1.5 billion and exports amounting to 550 million RMB.

Digitalization makes “every piece of fabric” traceable

Into the clothing production workshop of HT Fashion, the smooth operation of various types of automated equipment is dazzling. The reporter noted that, with the practice of digital transformation, HT Fashion won the “2023 Shandong Province textile and garment industry digital transformation innovation unit” “2023 National Digital Transformation Labor Competition Advanced Collective” and other honors.

“The Group has always been committed to promoting digital innovation, so that 'every piece of fabric' can be traced at every step from its birth to becoming a garment.” Yu Jin introduced, “At present, through the establishment of a digital production system for the whole supply chain, the enterprise's production has achieved automation, intelligence, integration, collaboration and digitalization.”

In the past 10 years, HT Fashion has a low-code agile development, mobile Internet, big data analysis and other cutting-edge technologies as the support for the development of cloud development platform, and with the help of modernized MES system, the full application of bar code, RFID radio frequency and other Internet of things technology, effectively solving the production process, “scientific scheduling, data collection, standard process guidance, early warning calibration, Reflective control, piece-rate wage” and other major problems in the production process. At the same time, the company continues to introduce advanced information technology, not only applying ERP system and MES system in development work, but also introducing 3DCLO, Style3D system and other digital tools to realize the leaning of technical design in ODM.

“Digital transformation, sustainable development and personalized innovation are the core driving force for the development of apparel enterprises, and the basis for enterprises to retain competitiveness in the face of a white-hot market.” Relying on cutting-edge innovation and development power, the enterprise is able to respond quickly to market changes in product development; in product quality, set up physical and chemical laboratories in line with international testing standards, create a specialized quality management and supervision system, and win market recognition and reputation through continuous innovation and technological upgrading.

Open Growth Channels for Female Talents

At the end of 2024, the students of Shandong University of Art and Design Fashion College welcomed the first phase of the "Industry-Education Integration, Collaborative Education" series between the academy and HT Fashion, in which senior executives came into the classroom as corporate mentors to give professional lectures and comments according to the needs of the academy's curriculum and expand the design thinking of the students through the sharing of work practices, cultivating their practical ability and vocational literacy. Through sharing work practice, the program aims to expand students' design thinking and cultivate their practical ability and professionalism.

In recent years, HT Fashion has entered into industry-academia-research cooperation with a number of schools, including Beijing Institute of Fashion, Shandong University of Art and Design, Qilu University of Technology, Jinan Engineering Vocational and Technical College, and Shandong Foreign Trade Vocational College. Yu Jin said that in the future, the cooperation between schools and enterprises will also include joint promotion of the establishment of creative clothing products and design results into a platform for the promotion of joint research projects to carry out cutting-edge, to create a distinctive brand of fashion education and so on.

Industry-university-research cooperation is an important part of HT Fashion's multi-level and strong-skill industry talent cultivation strategy, and HT Fashion can obtain more innovative ideas and talents and enhance the core competitiveness of the enterprise through cooperation with schools. The cooperation projects such as scientific research projects and the construction of fashion industry college will further promote the technological innovation and brand building of the enterprise, and help the enterprise to realize intelligent and digital production.

From the initial garment processing enterprises, to the development of today's clothing R & D and production in one of the international supply chain company, Yu Jin revealed that the development of Hongtian Group's “secret” is in the “people-oriented”. It is understood that HT Fashion's female employees accounted for more than 85%, and female management accounted for about 65%. “Supporting more female employees to move into management positions” has become a reality in HT Fashion.

“Focus on the development of employees while the company grows, and for this reason, we have proposed to build a 'family-friendly enterprise'.” HT Fashion promotes the concept of “family-friendly” through specific measures such as improving the employee welfare system,” Yu Jin said. For example, recruiting strategies are planned for employees' maternity plans, and no matter whether it's marriage leave, maternity leave or parental leave, it ensures that colleagues have a job to go back to when they return to work, and there's no problem of job loss due to family responsibilities. Yu Jin said that this is not only an important way for enterprises to fulfill their social responsibility, but also the key to attracting and retaining diversified talents for the enterprise on the basis of promoting and safeguarding employees' family happiness, and further enhancing the enterprise's innovation ability and market competitiveness.

“At present, the garment consumer market is demanding more and more products, and the competition among textile and garment enterprises has become more intense.” Yu Jin said frankly that she is still full of confidence in the future. “Next, under the long-term positive trend of China's economy, HT Fashion will continue to increase investment in research and development, led by scientific and technological innovation, supported by talent cultivation, and based on the principle of green manufacturing, and will actively participate in the in-depth integration of the global textile industry chain at a firmer pace to make a positive contribution to the high-quality development of the Chinese-style modernized textile industry. ”

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