During this year’s National Two Sessions, various issues related to people’s livelihood and development were frequently searched and resonated with everyone. Chen Lifen, deputy to the National People’s Congress and chairman of Jiangsu Sunshine Co., Ltd., proposed that we should further create new international competitive advantages for industrial textiles. She suggested that in order to improve relevant policies and measures and guide and support the development of the industrial textiles industry, firstly, the status of industrial textiles in industry classification should be improved, secondly, a national technical committee for standardization of industrial textiles should be established, and thirdly, a national industrial textiles standardization technical committee should be established. National Manufacturing Innovation Center for Textiles.
In fact, as a component of strategic new materials, industrial textiles have become one of the most dynamic fields in my country’s industrial system, demonstrating the dual cycle development pattern. Huge room for development.
Industrial textiles are a technology-oriented industry. Under new development opportunities, product performance, quality and cost advantages formed through technological innovation are the key to enterprises winning in fierce market competition. The essential.
The industry maintains medium-to-high-speed development
At present, our country has built the world’s largest and most diverse It has a comprehensive industrial textile system and has accumulated strong technical and talent advantages in high-performance fibers, special molding technology, and functional finishing. Driven by the global demand for epidemic prevention materials, my country’s industrial textiles industry will continue to maintain medium-to-high-speed development in 2020, with production, sales, exports and investment increasing significantly, and the economic benefits of the industry improving significantly.
Data from the National Bureau of Statistics show that in 2020, the industrial added value of enterprises above designated size in my country’s industrial textiles industry increased by 54.1%. In terms of production, nonwovens are the main raw material for masks, protective clothing and disinfectant wipes. The annual nonwovens output of enterprises above designated size reached 5.791 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 15.8%. In terms of economic benefits, the total operating income and profits of enterprises above designated size in my country’s industrial textile industry in 2020 were 319.84 billion yuan and 36.53 billion yuan respectively, a year-on-year increase of 32.6% and 203.2% respectively, and the operating profit margin was 11.4%, an increase from the same period in 2019 6.4 percentage points.
In terms of fields, the operating income and profits of nonwovens enterprises above designated size in 2020 will increase by 54% and 328.1% respectively year-on-year; medical and health, filtration, and geotechnical textiles are located in The operating income and total profit of other industrial textiles increased by 35.4% and 175.1% respectively, with an operating profit margin of 12.3%. The operating income of ropes, ropes and cables that are not closely related to epidemic prevention materials increased by 6.9% year-on-year, and the total profit decreased by 3.3% year-on-year; the operating income and total profit of textile belts and cord fabrics decreased by 11.8% and 18.2% respectively year-on-year; awnings and canvases The operating income and total profit increased by 5.3% and 16.5% year-on-year respectively.
In terms of international trade, my country exported 1.289 million tons of nonwovens in 2020, a year-on-year increase of 32.2%; the export of disposable sanitary products such as diapers and sanitary napkins was US$2.27 billion, a year-on-year increase 8.6%. From March 2020 to the end of 2020, my country exported a total of 224.2 billion masks to the world, including 65 billion medical masks; it exported 2.31 billion protective clothing, including 773 million medical protective clothing. The annual export volume of masks and protective clothing is approximately US$63.5 billion.
2020 is a critical year in the fight against the new coronavirus pneumonia epidemic, and it is also the final year of my country’s “13th Five-Year Plan”. This year, in the work to ensure the production of materials for the prevention and control of the new coronavirus epidemic, my country’s nonwovens industry has made every effort to do a good job in the production, supply and quality assurance of spunbond, meltblown, spunlace and hot-air nonwovens. Other industrial textiles It has been applied more deeply in the fields of environmental protection, infrastructure, safety protection, transportation, aerospace, and military-civilian integration. It has played an important role in improving people’s health and well-being, improving environmental quality, ensuring occupational safety, improving engineering quality, and supporting national defense and military industries. effect.
Enterprise orders are sufficient and confident
Entering 2021, the industry’s medium-to-high-speed development trend continues. The results of a recent spring online survey conducted by the China Industrial Textiles Industry Association show that from January to February this year, due to the continued demand for epidemic prevention materials, the overall operation of the industry was better than the same period in previous years. The interviewed companies were highly satisfied with their operating conditions in the first two months, with more than half of the companies operating in good condition, and their current order volume has increased compared with previous years. More than one-third of the companies surveyed said they have relatively stable and continuous sources of orders, and nearly one-fifth of the companies have orders that can support production within three months.
The vast majority of companies are optimistic about the development of my country’s industrial textiles industry in 2021. Enterprises above designated size have more optimistic forecasts for the entire year of the industry. Business confidence is also reflected in fixed asset investment intentions. More than half of the companies surveyed said they have new investment plans in 2021. The planned investment projects are mainly focused on production capacity expansion, upgrading of existing equipment and new factories. Companies with investment plans are mainly concentrated in the fields of medical textiles and nonwoven fabrics.
Companies in the fields of geotechnical construction, safety protection, structural reinforcement, filtration and separation, rope nets, papermaking and special textiles are more optimistic about their business expectations in 2021; while medical and health applications Textile and nonwovens companies have experienced rapid growth in 2020 and have become more cautious in their full-year forecasts in the face of slowing demand for epidemic prevention materials.
This investigation�The results also show that my country’s industrial textiles industry is relatively low in dependence on the international market. Among them, textiles for filtration, transportation, geotechnical construction, papermaking, leather-based fabrics, and special textiles are less dependent on overseas markets; medical and health, safety protection textiles, wires, ropes, nets, interlinings, etc. are relatively dependent on overseas markets. high.
In this regard, industry experts believe that as the epidemic is gradually brought under control globally, the market demand for epidemic prevention materials will show a downward trend, and the demand for non-epidemic prevention materials will will rebound, relevant companies must reasonably adjust market expectations and accelerate the adjustment of product structure and the development of new products. Currently, some melt-blown nonwovens and mask production lines have withdrawn from the market, and it is expected that as the epidemic further eases, more such production capacity will choose to withdraw. New spunbond and spunlace nonwoven production capacity will be gradually released in the next two years. The industry needs to continuously expand new markets and new applications, adjust the pace of production capacity expansion, and reduce the impact of large-scale production capacity increases on the industry.
The industrial structure still needs to be optimized and upgraded
Although my country’s industrial textiles industry currently shows an overall good performance development trend. However, in the process of operation, enterprises still face problems such as excessive growth in industry production capacity, continuous increase in production costs, difficulties in expanding overseas markets, and declining demand in some application markets.
Especially since this year, the prices of the main raw materials for the production of industrial textiles have entered an upward channel. More than 70% of the companies surveyed said that the prices of raw materials have increased to varying degrees, and nearly 30% of the companies said they have increased. More than 10%. Enterprise labor costs have also continued their upward trend over the years. The increase in raw material costs and labor costs has led to increased operating pressure on enterprises, and the prices of some products have increased to varying degrees. In this regard, industry experts said that large fluctuations in raw material prices in the short term will cause problems to the operations of enterprises, but in the long term, the entire industry chain will jointly share the pressure of rising raw material prices. Enterprises mainly need to work hard to overcome the problem of rising labor costs. As the younger generation’s willingness to engage in manufacturing decreases, difficulty in recruiting workers and high labor costs will be common problems faced by the entire manufacturing industry. On the one hand, my country’s industrial textile companies must strengthen the intelligent transformation of production lines, reduce the number of general employees, and reduce labor intensity; on the other hand, they must also strengthen the training of employees, help them improve their professional skills, and continue to improve the working conditions and benefits of employees. Enhance the attractiveness of enterprises to workers.
Despite the complex environment and fierce competition, in the long run, industrial textiles will still be the focus of the development and structural adjustment of the global textile industry. In recent years, my country’s industrial textile industry has developed rapidly. Key enterprises in the industry have continued to grow. Technological innovation has been active. New technologies, new products and new applications have continued to emerge. The level of informatization and intelligence in the industry has continued to improve. Green supply chains and energy conservation and emission reduction have been further promoted. .
Li Lingshen, vice president of the China National Textile and Apparel Federation and president of the China Industrial Textiles Industry Association, said that the current industrial textiles industry has entered a period of opportunity and window for rapid development. Opportunities and challenges coexist. In the future, competition in the industrial textiles industry will transform from low-cost advantages to cost-effective advantages, from scale and volume advantages to innovative application advantages, from breadth expansion advantages to depth dominance, and from domestic manufacturing bases to global ones. Manufacturing network.
Industrial textiles are a technology-oriented industry. Product performance, quality and cost advantages formed through technological innovation are the keys for enterprises to win in fierce market competition. The industrial textile industry chain is multi-disciplinary, technological innovation is the decisive factor in its international competition, and standards and certification are important starting points for the industry to expand the global market. Enterprises in the industry must be prepared to respond to the post-epidemic era, especially for related industrial textiles that will be in high market demand for some time in the future. They must also lay a solid foundation, strengthen research and development, develop internal skills, actively expand the use of end products, and steadily Digest the current surge in production capacity and achieve a good upgrade of the industrial structure.
This year is the first year of the “14th Five-Year Plan”. The “14th Five-Year Plan” period will be an important period for my country’s industrial textiles to move towards the forefront of the world. We will increase efforts in applied basic research, promote the industrialization of scientific and technological achievements, strengthen collaboration and mutual promotion among innovation carriers, build an industry standardization innovation ecosystem, and strengthen The creation and collaborative use of intellectual property and improving the service capabilities of industrial technological innovation support should be the direction that the industry needs to continue to strive for for quite some time in the future. Under new opportunities, my country’s industrial textiles must make the allocation of technical factors more intelligent, the allocation of resource factors more green, and the allocation of innovative factors more integrated. </p
