Following the exposition of the four chapters on stage - Union, Cultivation, Harvest, and Aspiration - the glorious history of Guangdong Home Textile Association and Guangdong's home textile industry was fully replayed on the evening gala screen. Originating from the development mission of Guangdong's home textile fabric industry in the 1990s, the Guangdong Home Textile Association was established in 1996 as the first provincial civilian chamber of commerce in the national home textile industry. It has grown alongside the industry, continuously standardizing its growth, fostering exchanges and cooperation, pioneering innovations, and establishing the first copyright alliance for the home textile industry, leading the industry onto a path of brand strategy and achieving industrial upgrading and brand clustering effects. With advanced concepts such as group soft furnishings, Chinese creation, and business innovation, it has pioneered a new journey for China's home textile fabric industry. The Shenzhen International Home Textile Fabric Fair that it organizes has now become China's top home textile fabric exhibition, with next year's March exhibition reaching an unprecedented scale of ten thousand square meters.
Recalling the past years of glory, the Guangdong Home Textile Association is like diligent and wise farmers who have experienced spring sowing, summer cultivation, autumn harvest, and winter aspirations, finally welcoming a bright future. Accompanied by melodious music and graceful dance, colleagues present reviewed the past with the home textile association and looked forward to the future, marching confidently toward a new journey. "We depict the beautiful legend of home and discover a new century belonging to China," as the undulating melody slowly played, all directors and staff of the Guangdong Home Textile Association came on stage to sing the association song "Fly Dreams". The passion and dreams of Guangdong home textile people were gathered and burst forth in the singing, expressing their style through music.
On December 17, the Guangdong Home Textile Association celebrated its fifteenth anniversary. That evening, the grand celebration evening gala themed "Fifteen Years of Deep Affection, Hand-in-Hand to Create the Future" was held at Foshan Hotel. Leaders and guests including Yang Zhaohua, President of the China Home Textiles Association, Gao Shenqin, Secretary General of the National Chamber of Commerce for Textile Apparel Industry, and enterprise representatives all attended, offering greetings and blessings for the fifteenth anniversary of the Guangdong Home Textile Association.
Over fifteen years of wind and rain, the Guangdong Home Textile Association has marched hand-in-hand with Guangdong home textile enterprises, the national home textile industry, and sister associations, jointly writing and witnessing the brilliant process of Guangdong's home textile industry. At the on-site fabric retrospective exhibition, old fabrics, photographs, textual materials, commemorative trophies, published journals, and event costumes arranged against the backdrop of fifteen years presented a panoramic view of the remarkable progress and tremendous changes in Guangdong's home textile industry before the audience. These objects, carrying the hard work and memories of the association, are like a vast history of home textile development, condensing and presenting the essence of the years of the Guangdong Home Textile Association, reflecting the rising figures of private home textile enterprises under the reform tide and their historical missions, receiving unanimous praise from visitors.
At the celebration gala, Yang Zhaohua, President of the China Home Textiles Association, fully praised the significant contributions made by the Guangdong Home Textile Association to the development of the industry and expressed deep expectations for the future plans of Guangdong's home textile industry: "We have a great domestic market and a complete industrial chain; the potential and space for future development must be limitless. Under the new situation, I hope that the Guangdong Home Textile Association will continue to play a exemplary role in communicating with the government, organizing events, and leading the industry, jointly dedicating itself to the great process of building a strong home textile country." Subsequently, Gao Mingqin, Secretary General of the National Chamber of Commerce for Textile Apparel Industry, warmly congratulated the Guangdong Home Textile Association on its fifteenth anniversary celebration and gave high affirmation to the association's work, pointing out that "The Guangdong Home Textile Association bears the historical responsibility of leading the industry's upgrade, witnessing the rise and prosperity of Guangdong's private home textile enterprises, and actively promoting the development and advancement of the industry."
Huang Jinquan, President of the Guangdong Home Textiles Industry Association, also reviewed the fifteen-year development path of the Guangdong Home Textile Association to the attending guests and encouraged the association to persevere and continue contributing to the development of the industry: "Fifteen years of relentless effort and progress have enabled the Guangdong Home Textile Association to grow from initial obscurity to today's association with over 400 member units, becoming a typical association organization among national civilian chambers of commerce. In the future, we will always lead Guangdong's home textile industry forward with strong cohesion, combativeness, and vitality, continue to communicate with the government, serve the industry, and make due contributions to building a moderately prosperous society in China."
In addition, various council representatives of the Guangdong Home Textile Association unanimously supported and highly praised the enormous platform role played by the association in terms of brand influence, popular support, and collaborative cohesion through the evening gala recording.