大生纱厂是清末创办的私营棉纺织企业。1895年(光绪二十一年),张謇在“设厂自救”的浪潮中开始筹办,次年开始购地建厂,次年春开车生产,厂址在江南通州(今南通市)。厂区周围是产棉区,原料价廉。工人工资较低,正、杂各税也较轻。当地发达的土法织布业,为棉纱提供了市场。1903年增纱锭4.08万枚,又以盈余添购2.6万纱锭开设大生二厂,1907年投产。1915年增设布厂,同时在海门筹设第三厂。1921年又设立大生副厂。不久改称大生第一、第 Dasheng mill is founded in the late Qing Dynasty private cotton textile enterprises. 1895 (Guangxu twenty-one years), Zhang Jian in “set up factories to save themselves ” wave began to organize the following year began to build factories, the next spring driving production, site in Jiangnan Tongzhou (now Nantong). Factory is surrounded by cotton-producing areas, raw materials, inexpensive. Workers’ wages are low, positive and miscellaneous taxes are also lighter. The well-developed indigenous weaving industry provides a market for cotton yarn. In 1903 by 40,800 spindles, but also to purchase surplus 26,000 spindles to open two plants, 1907 put into operation. In 1915 an additional cloth factory, while the third plant in Haimen. In 1921 and the establishment of Deputy Health Factory. Soon renamed students first, the first