With Domestic Demand Warming And Export Counterattack, The Competitiveness Of Textile Industry Has Been Significantly Enhanced

According to the latest data released by the General Administration of customs, in 2020, China's textile and garment exports totaled US $291.22 billion, ending with a good performance of 9.6% year-on-year growth.

This report card is not easy to come by, and it is also quite eye-catching.

Under the support of the policy of "stabilizing foreign trade", China's textile and clothing industry has withstood the huge impact of the epidemic. Since April, the textile industry has achieved growth for nine consecutive months, and clothing has reversed since August. Textile and clothing exports have achieved growth for five consecutive months, directly driving the overall export growth of the national goods trade by 1 percentage point, which has become an important driving force to promote the growth of national goods trade.

The steady release of export competitiveness benefits from the continuous improvement of consumption demand in overseas markets, but the return of orders, more importantly, the huge "magnetic attraction" formed by the stable industrial chain supply chain system of domestic textile industry also reflects the industrial practice of deep adjustment and improvement of development quality of China's textile industry.

    In 2020, facing the challenge of the epidemic situation, what is the overall operation of China's textile and garment industry? As an important industry to improve people's livelihood, how can the textile and garment industry achieve high-quality development? Recently, the 15th Annual Meeting of China Textile round table forum sponsored by China Textile Industry Federation was held in Beijing, and more than 100 experts and scholars from academic circles and industry gathered together To discuss the future development path of textile and clothing industry.

With domestic demand warming and export counterattack, the competitiveness of textile industry has been significantly enhanced

"In recent years, the overall development of China's textile industry is in the stage of deep adjustment and transformation, focusing on improving the quality of development. In 2020, affected by the epidemic situation, the textile industry has also been impacted." At the forum, Gao Yong, Secretary General of the Party committee and Secretary General of the China Textile Industry Federation, said: however, with the steady progress of the resumption of work and production in China, various operating indicators of the textile industry showed a sustained upward trend, and the domestic demand market of China's textile industry showed an obvious recovery trend in the second half of the year.

According to the data of the National Bureau of statistics, the year-on-year decline in retail sales of clothing, shoes, hats, needles and textiles of units above the designated size in China has gradually narrowed from more than 30% at the beginning of the year to 7.9% in the first November.

Whether domestic demand has been improved or not is the most obvious feeling of enterprises. Offline, go to Shanghai to participate in the domestic noodle and accessories exhibition, online, participate in e-commerce activities for the first time, directly face the consumer groups Recently, Liu Peiyi, executive deputy general manager of Zhejiang Xinao Textile Co., Ltd., had a full schedule. "From the" behind the scenes "of the supply chain to the" front desk "of the sales end, the company's revenue can recover rapidly and realize the growth against the trend Liu Peiyi said. While the domestic demand market is picking up, the export market is heating up substantially. Driven by the export of anti epidemic materials such as masks and protective clothing, China's textile export competitiveness has been steadily released, and the export scale is close to the best level in 2014.

Not only is the total export volume increasing, but the export structure is also adjusting. "For the first time, textile exports exceeded clothing, accounting for 52.8% of the total exports, which changed the export structure of the textile industry." Gao Yong said that it should be noted that in the second half of the year, with the restart of overseas economy, China's textile industry system improved and the stability of supply chain operation showed. Clothing exports gradually improved, and by the end of the year, the decline in export volume had narrowed to 6.4%.

According to Gao Yong, looking back at the 13th five year plan, China's textile industry is commendable.

In terms of scale, China's total fiber processing accounts for about 50% of the world's total fiber processing, 70% of the chemical fiber output, and about one-third of the total export volume. In terms of comprehensive capacity, China's textile industry chain generally reaches the international advanced or leading level in terms of categories, output quality, production efficiency, and independent technology and equipment.

According to the "strategic research on promoting the construction of a manufacturing power facing 2035" issued by the Chinese Academy of engineering recently, the textile industry has become one of the five leading industries in the world. Sun Ruizhe, President of China Textile Industry Federation, commented that textile science and technology innovation has entered a new stage of coexistence of "following, running and leading".

To achieve high-quality development, we still need to make innovation stronger, manufacturing greener and products better

Looking forward to the 14th Five Year Plan period, in the face of the overall slowdown in demand and the increase of uncertain factors in international trade, how should the textile industry cope with the challenges and continuously move towards high-quality development?

"We must face up to the industry gap between China and developed countries, especially in the areas of independent innovation in cutting-edge science and technology, soft power of brand and fashion, leading ability of green development, and control ability of international supply chain." Gao Yong said that we should strengthen the advantages of the manufacturing system, solve the short board of the industrial chain supply chain, open up a new situation in the new pattern and realize new development.

——Scientific and technological innovation is more "strong", which means that we should not only make it, but also make it fine and good.

"In the next step, the textile industry should solve the problem from the production of manufacturing to the refinement of manufacturing, and finally to the good manufacturing, so as to truly realize precision manufacturing, green manufacturing and intelligent manufacturing." Shan Zhongde, academician of the Chinese Academy of engineering and President of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, believes that on the one hand, we should continue to promote the research and development of intelligent high-quality textile equipment, improve efficiency, performance and digital level, and truly realize automatic perception, intelligent decision-making and automatic execution; On the other hand, it is also actively developing service-oriented textile manufacturing, promoting personalized customization production mode, including remote design innovation center, etc., so as to realize the production of personalized products by industrial mass means and expand market demand.

In fact, in recent years, many textile enterprises have been deeply engaged in cutting-edge technological innovation. Not long ago, at the Sixth China Industrial Awards Conference, Anhui Huamao Textile Co., Ltd. won the award for its new intelligent spinning transformation project, which was developed by Anhui Huamao Textile Co., Ltd. with a number of independent intellectual property rights of spinning intelligent manufacturing technology. Its first "air flow impurity removal, flexible opening" technology can not only improve the removal efficiency of cotton impurities, but also reduce the number of impurities Cotton fiber damage in the process of opening greatly improves the production efficiency.

——Production and manufacturing is more "green", not only to recycle the waste products, but also to make the production process energy-saving and carbon reduction.

"In the past, the textile industry was only concerned about the end of the pollution control, and then it should be extended to the whole process control, targeted and accurate pollution control." Wen zongguo, a professor at Tsinghua University's School of environment, believes that the adoption of clean production technology and equipment, especially the substitution of green chemicals, should become an important direction for the sustainable development of the textile industry in the future.

Wen zongguo pointed out that from the recycling of waste textiles, compared with developed countries, the proportion of recycling in China's textile industry is still low. In the next step, enterprises should take responsibility not only for product quality, but also for their recycling and waste disposal.

——Textile products are more "excellent", strengthen the research and development of fine processing technology in the whole industrial chain, and develop the market with high-end products.

According to Zhang Yansheng, chief researcher of China International Economic Exchange Center, the future textile industry should tell the story of science, technology, innovation and talents, and improve the division of labor in the value chain of global industrial chain by developing high-end textile products.

"Specifically, it is necessary to integrate new materials, new technologies and domestic consumption upgrading trend, develop high-end textile products with high comfort, easy care, antibacterial health care and other multi-function, continuously improve the quality and technology added value, expand the application space of materials, so as to open up new market demand." Gao Yong said.