After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the silk industry in Shanxi experienced rapid recovery and development. Beginning in the mid-1950s, governments at all levels vigorously worked to restore and develop sericulture and silk production. To support the silk industry, the government established the Nanwangzhuang Silk Cooperative. In the early 1960s, the "Gaoping Silk Weaving and Printing Factory" (now Shanxi Lu'an Prefecture Lu Silk Group) was built on the basis of this cooperative, becoming a key project of the national Second Five-Year Plan.

Since the reform and opening-up, the development of Shanxi's silk industry entered a peak period. Seventeen silk enterprises were successively established across the province, among which the Gaoping Silk Weaving and Printing Factory was the largest in scale, boasting 284 silk looms, and the most influential. Its products were sold in major and medium-sized cities across China and exported to the United States, Japan, and other regions, earning the reputation as "A Flower on Taihang Mountain."

Since the 1990s, with the transition from a planned economy to a market economy, Shanxi's silk and cocoon industry faced new challenges and entered another downturn. The 17 silk enterprises gradually declined and went bankrupt. While other enterprises in the same industry closed, shut down, or operated at half capacity, the Gaoping Silk Weaving and Printing Factory underwent restructuring and established Jilier Silk Co., Ltd. (the predecessor of Lu'an Prefecture Lu Silk Group). Shouldering the mission of "inheriting the culture of Lu silk and revitalizing the silk industry," and after 67 years of effort, it has once again become a standout enterprise in North China.

No matter how the silk industry transforms and upgrades, its development can never be separated from the integration with culture from beginning to end—it is both a technology and an art!