Yongan textile industry started in the early 70s of last century.

The city has always been the textile industry as a key pillar industry to promote development.

Guided by the high tech Industrial Park of New Zealand, the city has built a large functional textile industrial zone with fiber, spinning, weaving, knitting, clothing, dyeing and finishing, and leather making.

At present, the city's spinning and weaving industry ranks the top three in Fujian province. The production scale of leather base ranks the highest in the whole province. The total textile industry occupies the first place in the inland mountainous area of Fujian, and has formed the textile industry chain of chemical fiber, spinning, non-woven fabrics, weaving, printing and dyeing, artificial leather and so on. The industrial agglomeration effect radiated the surrounding Longyan Changting, Sanming Youxi and Nanping area.

At the same time, the city has actively guided the textile excellent backbone enterprises to form a number of specialized textile production enterprise groups specialized in the production through the merger and merger with other small and medium-sized textile enterprises, leading leading backbone enterprises to participate in quality certification, green certification and other brands.