Growth 9.6% against the trend! The latest data released from the General Administration of Customs shows that in 2020, my country’s textile and apparel exports totaled US$291.22 billion, ending successfully with a year-on-year increase of 9.6%.
This report card is hard-won and quite impressive.
With the support of the “stabilizing foreign trade” policy, China’s textile and garment industry exports have withstood the The huge impact brought by the epidemic has been that textiles have achieved growth for nine consecutive months since April, and clothing has achieved a reversal since August. Textile and clothing exports have grown for five consecutive months, directly driving the overall export growth of the country’s trade in goods by 1 percentage point and becoming an important driving force for the growth of the country’s trade in goods.
The stable release of export competitiveness, benefiting from the continued improvement of consumer demand in overseas markets , but the return of orders, and more importantly, the huge “magnetic attraction” formed by the domestic textile industry’s stable industrial chain and supply chain system, also reflects from one side the industrial practice of my country’s textile industry in-depth adjustment and improvement of development quality.
In 2020, facing the challenge of the epidemic, what is the overall performance of my country’s textile and garment industry? ? As an important industry that improves people’s livelihood, how can the textile and garment industry achieve high-quality development during the “14th Five-Year Plan” period? Recently, the 15th Annual Conference of the China Textile Roundtable Forum hosted by the China Textile and Apparel Industry Federation was held in Beijing. More than 100 experts and scholars from academia and industry gathered together to discuss the future development path of the textile and apparel industry.
Domestic demand has picked up and exports have counterattacked, and the competitiveness of the textile industry has been significantly enhanced
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“In recent years, the development of China’s textile industry as a whole has been undergoing in-depth adjustment and transformation, focusing on improving the quality of development. stage, affected by the epidemic in 2020, the textile industry has also been affected.” At the forum, Gao Yong, secretary of the Party Committee and Secretary-General of the China Textile and Apparel Industry Federation, said that with the steady progress of the resumption of work and production in the country, various operating indicators of the textile industry have shown The rebound trend continues, and the domestic demand market of China’s textile industry has a clear recovery trend in the second half of the year.
According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, the retail sales of clothing, shoes, hats, needles and textiles in units above designated size nationwide The year-on-year decline in sales gradually narrowed from more than 30% at the beginning of the year to 7.9% in the first November.
Whether domestic demand has improved will be the most obvious thing for companies to feel. Offline, he rushed to Shanghai to participate in the domestic fabrics and accessories exhibition, and online, he participated in e-commerce activities for the first time and directly faced the consumer groups… Recently, Liu Peiyi, executive deputy general manager of Zhejiang Xinao Textile Co., Ltd., has a full schedule. “From the ‘behind the scenes’ of the supply chain to the ‘front’ of the sales end, the company’s revenue quickly recovered and achieved growth against the trend.” Liu Peiyi said.
While the domestic demand market is picking up, the export market has heated up significantly. Driven by the export of anti-epidemic materials such as masks and protective clothing, my country’s textile export competitiveness has been steadily released, and the export scale is close to the industry’s best record in 2014.
Not only is the total export volume increasing, but the export structure is also adjusting. “Textile exports exceeded clothing for the first time, accounting for 52.8% of total exports, causing changes in the export structure of the textile industry.” Gao Yong said that it should be noted that with the restart of overseas economies in the second half of the year, the perfection and supply of my country’s textile industry system will The stability advantage of chain operation has emerged, and clothing exports have gradually improved. By the end of the year, the decline in export volume has narrowed to 6.4%.
Gao Yong introduced that looking back at the “13th Five-Year Plan”, China’s textile industry is remarkable Can be ordered.
In terms of scale, my country’s total fiber processing volume currently accounts for approximately 10% of the world’s total fiber processing volume. 50%, chemical fiber output accounts for about 70%, and total exports account for about one-third; from the perspective of comprehensive capabilities, my country’s textile industry chain has generally reached the Internationally advanced or leading level.
According to the “Strategic Research on Promoting the Construction of a Manufacturing Power towards 2035” recently released by the Chinese Academy of Engineering 》The report shows that the textile industry has become one of the five major industries in which my country is in the advanced position in the world. Sun Ruizhe, president of the China Textile and Apparel Industry Federation, commented that textile technological innovation has moved from “following” to a new stage of “following, running alongside, and leading”.
To move towards high-quality development, we still need to make innovation stronger and manufacturing greener , better products
Looking forward to the “14th Five-Year Plan” period, facing the overall demand Slowing down and increasing uncertainties in international trade, how should the textile industry respond to challenges and continue to move towards high-quality development?
“We must face up to the industry gap that exists with developed countries, especially our country There are gaps in the textile industry in terms of independent innovation in cutting-edge technology, brand and fashion soft power, green development leadership capabilities, and international supply chain control capabilities.” Gao Yong said that it is necessary to strengthen the advantages of the manufacturing system and solve the shortcomings of the industrial chain and supply chain. Open up new situations and achieve new development in the new pattern.
��—To make scientific and technological innovation “stronger”, we must not only make it well, but also make it precisely and well.
“In the next step, the textile industry should solve the problem from manufacturing to manufacturing excellence. , and finally solve the problem of good manufacturing, and truly realize precise 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 to improve efficiency, performance and digitalization level to truly realize automatic perception, intelligent decision-making and automatic execution; on the other hand, it also actively develops service-oriented textile manufacturing and promotes personalized customized production models, including remote design innovation centers, etc., to achieve industrial mass production Produce personalized products and develop market demand.
In fact, in recent years, many textile companies have been deeply involved in cutting-edge technological innovation. Not long ago, at the 6th China Industry Awards press conference, Anhui Huamao Textile Co., Ltd. won the grand prize for its new spinning intelligent transformation project, relying on its development of spinning yarns with multiple independent intellectual property rights. Intelligent manufacturing process technology, its first “airflow impurity removal, flexible opening” technology, can not only improve the removal efficiency of cotton impurities, but also reduce fiber damage during the opening process of cotton, greatly improving production efficiency.
——Making manufacturing more “green” requires recycling of waste products , we should also make the production process energy-saving and carbon-reducing.
“In the past, the textile industry only cared about terminal pollution control. Next, it will be extended to Wen Zongguo, a professor at the School of Environment at Tsinghua University, believes that the adoption of cleaner production processes 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 proposed that from the perspective of recycling of waste textiles, compared with In developed countries, the proportion of recycling in my country’s textile industry is still low. The next step should be to take measures such as extended producer responsibility to make companies not only responsible for product quality, but also responsible for their recycling and waste disposal.
——Textile products are more “excellent” and the fine processing technology of the entire industry chain is strengthened Research and development, and develop the market with high-end products.
In the view of Zhang Yansheng, chief researcher of the China International Economic Exchange Center, the textile industry should Tell the story of science, technology, innovation and talent well, and enhance the division of labor in the global industrial chain and value chain through the development of high-end textile products.
“Specifically, it is necessary to integrate new materials, new technologies and domestic consumption. The upgrading trend is to develop high-end textile products with multi-functional features such as high comfort, easy care, antibacterial health care, etc., continuously improve quality and technological added value, expand the application space of materials, and thus open up new market demand.” Gao Yong said.
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