Focus of the 2023 National Cotton Trading Market Cotton Industry Development Annual Conference – Promoting the transformation of a large cotton industry country into a powerful cotton industry country

The focus of the 2023 National Cotton Trading Market Cotton Industry Development Annual Conference – Promoting the transformation of a large cotton industry country into a powerful cotton industry

“China is the world’s largest cotton producer and consumer. It has formed the world’s largest and most complete textile industry system and is also the largest exporter of textiles and clothing Country.” Hou Shunli, deputy director of the Council of the All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives, introduced at the 2023 National Cotton Trading Market Cotton Industry Development Annual Conference held recently.

National cotton production data released by the National Bureau of Statistics show that the national cotton production in 2022 will be 5.977 million tons, an increase of 246,000 tons compared with 2021, an increase of 4.3%.

For my country’s cotton industry, the past year has been an extraordinary year. Affected by factors such as the impact of the new coronavirus epidemic. In the future, how to accelerate the construction of a new development pattern of the cotton industry, promote the highquality development of China’s cotton industry, and realize the transformation of a large cotton industry into a powerful cotton industry? The 2023 National Cotton Trading Market Cotton Industry Experts attending the annual development conference put forward ideas and suggestions from aspects such as macro policies, industrial needs, and production area development.

Opening up a new situation in the high-quality development of China’s cotton industry, Hou Shunli suggested that the focus of development should be shifted to improving quality and efficiency, and the “Quality-Promoting Cotton” upgrade action should be implemented; and the adaptation between high-quality cotton supply and demand should be improved nature, guide the textile industry to accelerate product and category innovation, sink into the county market, further extend and expand the consumer space of cotton textile products; apply digitalization to planting, processing, inspection, and warehousing , logistics, consumption and other aspects of the industrial chain to empower the upgrading and upgrading of the cotton industry; continuously optimize the cotton production layout, ensure the supply of textile raw materials through multiple channels, and continue to improve the resilience and safety level of the cotton industry chain supply chain.

Ding Haowu, chairman of the National Cotton Trading Market, said that looking at the overall development of the industry, the National Cotton Trading Market will actively promote the construction of a cotton yarn standardized system and ImportCotton standardization and standardization system construction, explore and create new business formats and new models in related fields, and promote the substantial improvement of the overall circulation efficiency and standardization level of the industry. At the same time, the “China Cotton School” industrial training project is launched to continuously cultivate professional talents for the industry and accumulate potential for development.

Today, cotton has achieved full digital supervision. From cotton farmers to ginners, warehouses, and then to textile factories, every cotton farmer and every bale of cotton has data records. Shen Jieqiang, deputy general manager of the National Cotton Trading Market, believes that the maturing digital cotton and the rapidly developing smart cotton industry will definitely form a good digital ecosystem for the development of China’s cotton industry, and everyone in the industry will be a participant in the ecosystem. contributors and beneficiaries.

Li Nan, general manager of the Grain, Cotton and Oil Department of the Agricultural Development Bank of China Head Office, said that the Agricultural Development Bank of China will continue to play a policy financial role. In terms of cotton credit business, it will make every effort to do a good job in cotton acquisition under market-oriented conditions and promote cotton credit innovation. and service capabilities, and increase credit support for the cotton industry chain and supply chain.

Cotton production, mechanization level and cotton quality have all increased in recent years, and the number of textile companies has increased from 560 before to 3,658 in 2022. Liang Yong, deputy secretary-general of the People’s Government of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and deputy director of the Office of the Autonomous Region’s Cotton Industry Development Leading Group, said that Xinjiang will focus on building a national high-quality cotton base, improving cotton quality and extending the cotton industry chain to accelerate cotton, textile and apparelBuilding industrial clusters, building a cotton production, supply, storage and marketing system and promoting the innovative development of the national cotton yarn trading center and realizing period-to-cash linkage and other public service systems as the starting point, we will continue to improve The resilience and safety level of the cotton industry chain and supply chain in the autonomous region.