Reminiscence of Jiaxing Techno Mart

 I have had the opportunity to visit Jiaxing, where Sino Korea Zhejiang International Techno Mart and Technique Exchange Fair was held during May 26th ~ 29th 2008.

 This district including Hangzhou is famous for the silk industry. I was surprised at the vast and endless plants of the silk mulberry along the express way from the outskirts of Shanghai to Jiaxing and was reminded of the fact the region provides over 70% of the whole cocoon of the earth. So to speak, this district has been the major supplier of the silk, that has been distributed throughout the world, then Asia, Europe and the northern Africa across the silk road for thousands years.

 Our company participated in this fair with the novel technique of non woven silk producing method with the anticipation to encounter with the historical silk big shots who aspire to adopt the revolutionery innovation to rejuvenate the traditional business which is considered too cliche and old for us to pay the attentions. The disregard to it was arisen firstly in Japan some fifty years ago and in the next place in Korea, where the sericulture department of  the college of agriculture and forestry of Seoul National University was abolished and merged into agri-bio material one in 1990. When I had visited the professor of the department with the recommendation in 2005 or in 2006, I unexpectedly met the unwelcome treatment with the brief comment that he had majored in the synthetic fabric and had not have any interests in bio one, though he was working in the agri-bio material department.

 In spite of the ardent supports from the officals and staff of Korean Techno Park, Torch High-Tech Industry Development Center of Ministry of Science and Technology of China, Jiaxing Science and Technology Park Management Committee,  Science and Technology Bureau of Zhejiang, Science and Technology Bureau of Jiaxing and Nanhu of Jiaxing local government, our technique had attracted little notices from the silk manufacturers. On the contrary, some chemical non woven companies had shown concerns with the caution.

 In retrospect, the average persons of that time felt far less problematic at the deterioration of the ecological environment and the climate change of the planet than ones of nowadays, even though only 5 years elapsed.