Xiaolan Town has been a commercial distribution center in the Pearl River Delta since ancient times. Since the reform and opening up, Xiaolan people have given full play to their intelligence, and the economic construction has developed steadily and rapidly, making Xiaolan Town a central town in Guangdong Province, a strong industrial town in Zhongshan City and a regional business center.
Over the years, Xiaolan Town has taken a new road of industrialization, implemented a brand-driven strategy and promoted regional economic development. Among them, the underwear industry is becoming more and more mature, and has gradually formed a cluster chain of underwear manufacturing and processing industries, which is developing in the direction of large-scale and intensive production. Small town underwear enterprises have continuously exchanged and cooperated with internationally renowned underwear enterprises, accumulated rich production experience and strong technical force, and gradually transitioned from simple processing of imported materials to operating their own brands. According to incomplete statistics, there are 8 13 underwear enterprises and related enterprises in the town, including 3 large-scale enterprises with annual sales exceeding 5 million yuan 103, about 2 foreign-funded enterprises 12, more than 28,000 sets of various kinds of clothes and carts, and more than 40,000 employees. In 2005, the company produced 20 million dozen underwear annually and sold them.
After years of development, Xiaolan Town has cultivated the technical equipment of "Conlia", "CY", "Master", "Elsa", "Roober", "Hot Springs", "Funilai", "Yishe" and "Liya", and the production scale has changed from manual operation and semi-mechanization to mechanization, automation and electronic informationization. Xiaolanzhen underwear has always been internationally competitive in the development, design and production level of new products, and occupies an important position in the domestic and foreign markets.
Since 2000, in order to give full play to Xiaolan Town's advantageous industries and basic strength, and further promote the harmonious and coordinated development of economic construction and beautiful environment, Xiaolan Town Productivity Promotion Center and Science and Technology Innovation Office have been established successively to provide various services for enterprises in the town, strengthen "Industry-University-Research" cooperation, develop and reserve independent intellectual property rights, and accelerate the pace of technological innovation. At present, Xiaolan Town has five provincial, 33 municipal and more than 50 town enterprise technology centers, as well as two provincial and seven municipal engineering research technology centers to promote the development of enterprise product innovation and technological innovation.