Grown by 9.6% against the trend! The latest data released by the General Administration of Customs shows that in 2020, my country’s textile and clothing exports totaled US$291.22 billion, a year-on-year increase of 9.6% % of good results ended successfully.
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 huge impact of the epidemic. Textiles have grown for nine consecutive months since April, and clothing has reversed 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 is due to the continued improvement of consumer demand in overseas markets. However, the return of orders and, more importantly, the huge “magnetic attraction” formed by the stable industrial chain and supply chain system of the domestic textile industry also reflects from one side. It reveals the industrial practice of in-depth adjustment and improvement of development quality of my country’s textile industry.
In 2020, facing the challenge of the epidemic, how will the overall performance of my country’s textile and garment industry be? 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 improved, exports have counterattacked, and the competitiveness of the textile industry has significantly increased
“In recent years, the development of my country’s textile industry as a whole has been in a stage of deep adjustment and transformation, focusing on improving the quality of development. Affected by the epidemic in 2020, the textile industry has also It has been impacted.” Gao Yong, secretary-general of the Party Committee and Secretary-General of the China Textile and Apparel Federation, said at the forum that with the steady progress of the resumption of work and production in the country, various operating indicators of the textile industry have shown a continuous upward trend, and the domestic demand market of my country’s textile industry will pick up in the second half of the year. The trend is obvious.
According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, the year-on-year decline in retail sales of clothing, shoes, hats, needles, and textiles in units above designated size across the country has gradually narrowed from more than 30% at the beginning of the year to 7.9% in the first November.
Whether domestic demand has improved or not, companies will feel it most clearly. 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 is heating 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.
In terms of scale, my country’s total fiber processing currently accounts for about 50% of the world’s total, 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 accounts for about 50% of the world’s total fiber processing. In terms of varieties, output quality, production efficiency, independent process technology and equipment, etc., they have generally reached the international advanced or leading level.
According to the “Strategic Research on Promoting the Construction of a Manufacturing Power towards 2035” released by the Chinese Academy of Engineering not long ago, the textile industry has become one of the five major industries in which my country is in an 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 must still 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 increasing uncertainties in international trade, the textile industry How should we respond to challenges and continue to move towards high-quality development?
“We must face up to the industry gaps that exist with developed countries, especially the gaps in my country’s 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, solve the shortcomings of the industrial chain and supply chain, open up a new situation in the new pattern, and achieve new development.
——To make scientific and technological innovation “stronger”, we must both create and Making things with precision and making them well.
“In the next step, the textile industry should solve the problem of making things from high quality to fine things and finally to good things, 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 levels, and truly realize automatic perception, intelligent decision-making, and automatic execution; on the other hand, On the other hand, we are also actively developing service-oriented textile manufacturing, promoting personalized customized production models, including remote design innovation centers, etc., to achieve the production of personalized products through industrial batch means and develop market demand.
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