As a docking project between China’s “One Belt and One Road” initiative and Laos’ strategy of “turning a land-locked country into a land-linked country”, the China-Laos Railway has broken through the territory barriers of economic exchange between the two countries by means of railways. Meanwhile, when approaching the China-Laos Railway, and attending the opening ceremony of the China-Laos railway, the costumes of the Lao flight crew were eye-catching. On December 3, the China-Laos Railway was completed and opened to traffic, and the uniforms designed and produced by Nanshan Zhishang for the Lao crew of the China-Laos Railway was officially unveiled.

The theme of the uniform and equipment design released this time is “everything looks new and fresh (Vientiane Updating)”, with Asian elephants and unique plumeria, Wat Mai (Mai Buddha temple), and embossments etc. as elements. The style combines the characteristics of traditional Lao national costumes and Chinese minority costumes, using traditional embroidery techniques to reflect unique cultural charm. In terms of function, it can meet the needs of train work scenes, and it reflects the solemn, generous and strong design tone of professional wear in view of appearance. It has reached the advanced level of the industry in terms of technological content and green sustainability.

In recent years, Nanshan Zhishang has won many major international projects with its strong capability in terms of talents, technology, craftsmanship, and manufacturing etc. The company has successively become a clothing supplier for the Organizing Committee of 2012 London Olympic Games, the 2014 APEC conference, and the golf national team of 2016 Rio Olympics.

The relevant person in charge of Nanshan Zhishang revealed that after preliminary contact, the company finally signed a supply agreement with the China-Laos railway project relying on its strong R&D capabilities and advanced technology, and became a supplier of uniform design and production for train crew staff.

Nanshan Zhishang is an enterprise in a traditional industry, but it concentrates on informatization, big data and intelligent manufacturing projects in the textile and garment industry chain, and adheres to the concept of “science and innovation first”, while establishing an industrial (wool spinning) product quality control and technology evaluation laboratory, WDC (International Wool Development Center), China Professional Wear Research Institute of BIFT ? Nanshan, China Wool Textile Research Institute of Nanshan ? Xi’an Polytechnic University, etc., breaking through the middle link of the smile curve, obtaining value from both R&D end and sales end, and creating a road to science and technology in traditional industries.

The reporter learned that, BIFT ? Nanshan China Vocational Wear Research Institute successively participated in the design and R&D of the 2020-style “police dress” and the costume design project of the bid delegation of 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in a whole-course manner, and provided design and production services of parade clothing and training clothing for the female militia formation on the 70th anniversary of the National Day, and else-designed works won the Gold Award of 2013 (Beijing) World Garden Expo Professional Wear Design. In addition, the Design and Production Technical Standards of 2019 Beijing World Garden Expo Volunteer Clothing were formulated by us.

The “Dellma” professional wear brand created by Nanshan Zhishang has become the leading professional wear brand in China, and the trademarks of “Dellma” and “Nanshan Wool Fabric” have been recognized as “China Well-known Trademarks.” So far, Nanshan Zhishang has established 74 patents, including 25 invention patents, 35 utility model patents, and 14 design patents. Meanwhile, it won Shandong Science and Technology Progress Award 3 times, Yantai Science and Technology Progress Award 2 times, and China Textile Industry Association Science and Technology Progress Award 8 times and China Textile Industry Patent Award Excellence Award 3 times.