Chen Shujin And My Motherland: Proud Of Our Motherland! Proud Of The Textile

Editor's note: 2019 was the 70th anniversary and 70 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China. China's textile industry has been developing from a weak to a strong, and has achieved all-round and pioneering development. Profound and fundamental changes have taken place. As the mother industry, the pioneer of opening to the outside world and the forerunner of economic system reform, the textile industry has made China the largest producer, consumer and exporter of textiles and clothing in the world.

Chen Shujin, former vice chairman of China Textile Industry Federation

I am proud that I am the same age as the new China set up by the leadership of the Communist Party of China. I am lucky because I have been bathed in the greatest era in Chinese history in 70 years.

Once in a blue moon, the same age as new China.

I am a typical generation born in New China and under the red flag.

In January 1949, I had life and felt the rumble of the Liberation Army's Liberation of Tianjin. In October 1st, Chairman Mao solemnly declared on the tower of Tiananmen: "People's Republic of China is set up!"

My father was a clerk. He took office in 20s of last century through the examination of the official railway. His mother was a housewife. They went through warlords during the period of the Republic of China, Japanese puppet government, national government and new China. When I was a child, I often heard them say, "the old society is a bit of a terror, a life of fear, a flight of troubles, no peace, or a new society. The Communist Party is good!

When I grew up, I went to school and worked and entered the society for decades. During my experience and knowledge, I read a little book. I have had some thoughts and I have been to 50 countries and regions. The conclusion is: "Marx doctrine is the most lofty thought of mankind", "the Chinese Communist Party is the greatest political party in the world".

So I am proud that I am the same age as the new China established by the leadership of the Communist Party of China. I am lucky because I have been bathed in the greatest era in Chinese history in 70 years.

Three times and four times, enter the textile industry.

I worked in the textile industry for 49 years from 1965 to 2014. Entering the industry is dramatic, and it is fate. When I was graduating from junior high school (1965), I was intent on going to high school, and I did well in the entrance examination. I still got full marks in mathematics, but for special reasons, I failed. At that time, the nation called on the graduating students to have a red heart and two preparations to encourage the graduating students to go to the frontier and to go to the countryside. So I went to Ningxia production and Construction Corps.

However, due to some reasons, the District Education Bureau has coordinated and arranged for me to become a "central Dai Pei apprentice" and entered the "Tianjin textile machinery second fittings factory" which was trained for the purpose of learning milling technology. Three years apprenticeship, I will be transferred to the defense industry three line military enterprises. Later, the situation changed again. In 1966, due to historical reasons, the factory announced that the central "Dai Pei apprenticeship" was transferred to "local apprenticeship" after instructions from the higher authorities. After the completion of the training, the official workers who commissioned the training plant were no longer transferred to the three line military enterprises. It can be said that from the beginning of the 1965 apprenticeship, I entered the textile industry.

Before entering the bank, though I am not very old, I feel that the textile industry is a dynamic industry. Because I grew up in Tianjin, through all kinds of news, including sports and sports reports, National Day parade reports and so on, I have long known that Tianjin has a national cotton factory and cotton two, cotton three, cotton four, cotton five, cotton six (Bei Yang), 10 Fen, 20 Fen, Sanmao, Tianzhi, Tianma, Tianying, Tianjin Textile Machinery Factory...... Which factory is not thousands of people's factory, which factory does not have a large factory workshop, which factory has no employee dormitory, workers new village, theater, club, kindergarten, amateur football team, basketball team, Beijing Opera Troupe, judge Opera Troupe... There are not many factories in other industries. Only the large factories in the textile industry are lined up. A few years later, we know that Tianjin is one of the most important textile industrial bases built on the original foundation of new China. Then we know that our textile industry can continue to achieve such brilliant achievements in reform and opening up. It is inseparable from the solid foundation laid down by the textile predecessors (including the vast majority of textile workers) headed by Qian Guangguang in the first 30 years after the founding of new China.

It has been 54 years since I entered the industry, and I have witnessed the struggle of China's textile industry to the top of the world.

For example, textile machinery, this is my entrance door. When I entered the factory apprenticeship, the textile machinery industry has made rapid progress in a short span of over ten years, and has produced a lot of equipment to equip textile enterprises. At that time, our milling group had home-made plane milling, Chongqing hobbing machine, etc., and also imported universal milling machines in Poland and Germany (I opened the latter). We are small factories, such as Shanxi Jingwei Textile Machinery Factory, Shanghai China Textile Machinery Factory, Tianjin textile machinery factory and so on, and our equipment is much better than ours. In recent years, I have been to some textile machinery factories, and I see that advanced CNC machines are commonly used in many enterprises, and there are many flexible production lines. In 1978, the export of China's textile machinery was only about 20000000 US dollars, and the export volume reached 3 billion 666 million US dollars in 2018. At present, China's fiber processing accounts for more than half of the world's total. How many devices do we need to produce it? Although China imports a lot of equipment every year, most of them rely on their own processing equipment, which is not only expressed in quantity but also in level.

For example, chemical fiber. In early 1974, I was transferred to the Tianjin textile machinery and equipment industry company. I remember that around 1976, a technician from the three parts factory of the company came to the company. He was wearing a pair of Dacron trousers, straight cloth and straight trousers, and he was very envious, because most people did not. In 1978, I went to work in the Policy Research Office of the Ministry of textile industry. When we wrote the textile industry briefing in 1981, we found that the contents of the polyester fabric were not salable, which has changed a lot in recent years. In 1975, the output of polyester in China was 17 thousand and 500 tons, and the output in 1981 was 10 times that of 176 thousand tons. Now it's not even a pediatrician, but that era is a remarkable step forward. Looking back now, in 2018, the world's chemical fiber output was about 65000000 tons, of which China's output reached 50 million 110 thousand tons. Although the major varieties of chemical fibers are not invented in China, we are advanced in domestic equipment and production processes, and we have also developed a large number of new chemical fiber products.

Another three categories of products. In 1984, the comrades of the Policy Research Office discussed the concept of three main categories of textile terminals. They were then called "three pillars" of clothing, decorative textiles and industrial textiles. In the same year, the Ministry of textile industry also held an exhibition. At that time, I was in touch with news propaganda. Shen Li, CCTV's first TV announcer and host in New China, came to publicize the "three pillar" products in China and play it in the "service for you" program. At that time, clothing was still the top priority, accounting for around 80%, and decoration and industrial textiles were relatively few, while developed countries almost accounted for 1/3. Over the years, we have adopted the title of "clothing, home textiles and industrial textiles" more scientifically, and have put forward the proportion in each of the five years' development plans. At the end of 13th Five-Year, that is 2020, the proportion of these three categories of terminal products will reach 40:27:33. Domestic textiles and industrial textiles have made great progress, especially the high technology industrial textiles.

In the past 70 years, China's textile industry has undergone unimaginable and unimaginable development and changes. China's textile industry leaders, old experts Wu Hesong, Chen Yifang, Zhang Guohe, Xue Qingshi and other compiling, the China Textile Industry Federation former president Du Yuzhou as the introduction of the "development of China's textile industry research", the development history of China's textile industry has made the most full introduction, read this book, you will feel that if it was once a member of the textile industry and did some work is very proud.

The two reform is unforgettable throughout life.

My work in the Ministry of textile industry and the reform and opening up proposed by the party in the third Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Central Committee coincided with the same year. Therefore, I had the pleasure of understanding the whole process of the reform and opening up of the textile industry in the past 40 years, and also participated in some important reform work personally. I have never forgotten two times.

It was a 1998~2000 year breakthrough in the reform of state-owned textile enterprises, when I was the director of the enterprise reform division of the State Textile Industry Bureau. In the 90s of last century, because the state-owned enterprise mechanism and system could not fully meet the requirements of the socialist market economy, it was in a very difficult position. In 1996 alone, the loss of state-owned enterprises in the textile industry amounted to 10 billion 600 million yuan, and the reform of state-owned enterprises was imminent. In December 29, 1997, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council held a central economic work conference in Beijing. The meeting decided that the textile industry should be taken as a breakthrough to promote the reform of state-owned enterprises. In February 27, 1998, the State Council issued the circular on issues related to deepening the reform and adjustment of the textile industry and solving the problem of turning losses into account. It specifically called for the elimination of backward cotton ingots and 10 million spindles in three years or so, and the allocation of 1 million 200 thousand laid-off workers. By 2000, the whole industry would be able to turn a profit into a deficit and lay the foundation for the upgrading and revitalization of the textile industry and play a leading and exemplary role in the reform of state-owned enterprises in other industries. At that time, the National Textile Industry Bureau was responsible for organizing the whole industry to break through the battle. The Bureau set up a leading group and set up the office of "spindle adjustment and turnover work". I was appointed deputy director and worked in conjunction with Wang Tiankai, deputy director general office, and 1/3 was directly involved in the battle. After more than two years of efforts and efforts from all sectors of the industry, with the support of governments at all levels, the tasks of ingot and diversion have been completed ahead of schedule. In 2000, the whole industry turned to profitability. The reform is to pay the cost and the price. What I am most excited about is the about 1200000 workers who have been laid off and laid off in the campaign. Even though the state has promulgated many policies, they have undertaken considerable cost and ensured the smooth diversion and resettlement. They have made important contributions to the strategic adjustment of textile industry and the development of industries in the future.

The other was the reform of state organs in 2001. Since the reform and opening up, the reform of state organs has been continuously promoted, and the competent departments of textile industry are in the forefront. The reform in 2001 was a fundamental reform. The State Council revoked the responsible department of the textile industry over the past 52 years and transformed it into a trade association of a social organization, the China Textile Industry Association (renamed the China Textile Industry Federation in 2011). Since then, we have embarked on the road of exploring the establishment of a national trade association with Chinese characteristics under the socialist market economy with Chinese characteristics.

Over the past decade, the association has been on the road of innovation with opportunities and challenges. We have been moving forward without hesitation. We are constantly improving the structure of the association, gathering the strength of the industry, condensing the industry strategy, adhering to the service oriented approach, innovating the working mode, and enhancing the internal force of the association. More than a decade ago, the State Council decided to withdraw from the Council. Practice has proved that the direction of reform is correct. The industry association can become a good assistant of the government, guide the development of industries and enterprises, and can become an important force in promoting economic development. In order to build up a new textile power in the world, the association of new China will also be the best professional association in the world.