Editor’s note:
A sudden epidemic has not only affected my country’s industrial chain and supply chain It has a profound impact and has a huge impact on the textile and clothing industry. Faced with a series of challenges such as blocked foreign trade, sluggish domestic demand, and declining sales, industries and companies, while withstanding tremendous pressure, have also begun self-rescue and breakthroughs in different ways, looking for opportunities in times of crisis.
How to deal with the changes that have not been seen in a century, find a way out in the fog, and re-energize the vitality? At this moment, we must accurately identify changes, respond scientifically, actively seek changes, recognize the potential for change, and be firm. Confidence, being good at capturing and creating opportunities from immediate crises and difficulties, is the counterattack path for China’s textile industry to innovate and start again under the epidemic.
To defeat the epidemic and embark on the journey again, our confidence cannot be reduced, and our goal of becoming a textile power cannot be changed.
In order to better help enterprises see the essence through changes and follow trends to find direction, “China Textile” magazine has launched a series of special reports on “Seizing Opportunities and Determining Confidence”, focusing on foreign trade and For the two markets of domestic demand, we should start from different dimensions of industry and enterprise to understand the current development status of the textile industry, so as to prescribe the right medicine, plan in advance, and prepare for high-quality development.
The outbreak of the new coronavirus pneumonia epidemic has made us feel the importance and indispensability of industrial textiles as never before. After the outbreak of the epidemic, China’s industrial textile industry overcame many difficulties and tried its best to ensure the normal supply of raw materials and auxiliary materials. Many people believe that the only industry currently unaffected by the epidemic is the industrial textiles industry. So, will this epidemic have any impact on the industrial industry? If so, what is the impact? In what aspects are these impacts mainly manifested?
The industry performed smoothly in the first quarter
The epidemic has led to polarization
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In order to keep abreast of the operation of the industrial textiles industry in the first quarter, especially the orders, production and sales of enterprises under the new crown epidemic, as well as the enterprises’ development expectations for the whole year, China Industry The Textiles Industry Association launched a questionnaire survey within the industry at the end of March. It is understood that a total of 240 companies submitted questionnaires for this survey, of which 233 were valid questionnaires. The effective sample companies come from the fields of medical and health, safety protection, non-woven fabrics, filtration and separation, wire belts, military-civilian integration, special fibers and equipment, rope nets and other fields, involving the entire industrial chain of industrial textiles. Analyzing the sample enterprises, the main business income (enterprise size) in 2019 was mainly concentrated in the range of 100 million to 500 million yuan, accounting for nearly 40% of the total. Nearly 10% of the enterprises exceeded 1 billion yuan, and 12.45% of the enterprises were large-scale enterprises. The following companies.
Distribution of sample enterprises by field
As for the operating conditions of companies in the first quarter, 11.16% of companies said they were very Good, 30.47% of companies said it was relatively good, and 38.63% said it was average. Nearly 20% of companies said their operating conditions were not good, and nearly 4% of them said they were very poor. Indexing the operating conditions, the industry’s prosperity index in the first quarter was 63.7. The prosperity index of the medical and health, safety protection, filtration and separation, nonwoven coils, equipment and accessories fields was relatively high. Among them, the medical and health fields engaged in the production of anti-epidemic materials The prosperity index reached 79.2, while the prosperity index in geotechnical construction, rope netting, interlining and other fields was below the prosperity and decline value (50).
Prosperity index chart of sample companies in the first quarter
Through analysis, it can be found that the impact of the epidemic on the industrial textiles industry tends to be bipolar. On the one hand, companies that produce anti-epidemic materials are operating in good condition, with demand increasing significantly and orders are full; on the other hand, companies engaged in production in other fields have also been negatively affected to varying degrees.
Enterprises generally expect that with the resumption of production and the start of major projects after the second quarter, as well as the implementation of national policies and measures to support economic development, the industry’s performance in infrastructure construction, environmental protection, and safety protection will increase. The demand for medical protection products will recover and the global demand for medical protective products will continue to grow. Companies remain optimistic about the full-year operating situation.
Demand aspect. 31.33% of sample companies said that the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic has stimulated demand growth, while 21.03% of companies said that the epidemic has reduced demand, 4.12% of companies said that the epidemic has delayed the company’s demand and orders, but is expected to recover within the year, 6.44 % of companies said that the epidemic had no impact on the company’s demand.
Overseas orders. 34.43% of companies said that overseas orders were stable, but 32.79% of companies said that some orders were cancelled, and 8.2% of companies said that orders were canceled in large quantities, but 9.84% of companies said that orders had increased. The questionnaire shows that the industry as a whole is currently not highly dependent on overseas markets.
The status of production conversion of anti-epidemic materials. 20.6% of the sample companies were already engaged in the production of masks, protective clothing and their raw and auxiliary materials before the epidemic, and 31.76% of the companies said they started to switch to the production of the above materials after the epidemic.�It also includes restrictions on transportation and logistics, labor shortages and difficulties in purchasing raw materials and auxiliary materials. However, market demand and funds are the biggest challenges faced by enterprises.
However, regarding the expected development of the industry throughout the year, 30% of companies said that domestic demand throughout the year will increase by more than 10%, and 17.6% of companies believe that it will increase by 3%. %~10%, 22.32% of companies said that demand will be basically the same, but 31% of companies said that demand will decline to varying degrees. After indexing the domestic demand situation of enterprises, the domestic demand index of enterprises for the whole year was 57.9, which was higher than the domestic demand index in the first quarter. The demand index of enterprises in overseas markets was 43.6, higher than the overseas demand index in the first quarter, but still in the contraction range, indicating that the epidemic is spreading around the world and enterprises have a relatively pessimistic view on the recovery of the global economy. </p
