2025 Sichuan Silk Expo opens. The total investment of signed agreements exceeds 10 billion yuan.

On the 21st, the 2025 Sichuan Silk Expo opened in Nanchong, Sichuan. This year's Silk Expo has 270 participating companies, from 9 provinces and cities including Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Chongqing, as well as 6 countries including Germany and Italy, with 164 companies in the silk industry. The opening ceremony of the Silk Expo. This year's Silk Expo has the theme "Silk Charm Life, Linking the Future", with 5 exhibition halls: Chinese Silk Pavilion, International Cooperation Pavilion, Regional Cooperation Pavilion, Sichuan Specialty Pavilion, and Nanchong Local Specialty Pavilion, covering an exhibition area of 13,000 square meters, showcasing the innovation achievements of the national silk industry and various hand-woven brocades and smart home textiles from all over the country. "Nanchong is the silk capital of China and the origin of silk. It has a history of over 3,000 years of silk production. Silk products have been used as tributes since the Zhou Dynasty, making it an important source of goods for the Southern Silk Road and the Maritime Silk Road," said Zhang Dongyun, secretary of the Nanchong Municipal Committee, in his speech. In recent years, Nanchong has focused on strengthening the silk industry chain, improving quality and efficiency, integrating key processes such as mulberry cultivation, silkworm breeding, silk reeling, weaving, printing, dyeing, and garment and home textile processing, systematically constructing a modern silk production ecosystem, and has established a complete industry chain from "a mulberry leaf" to "a silk garment", with satin and mulberry silk production ranked first in the province.