Manufacturing is the foundation of a country’s economy and the focus of international competition. In recent years, China’s manufacturing industry has made great progress. Many products not only occupy the market that was originally dominated by imported products. In the domestic market, many are also competitive in the international market. Starting from May 15, China Central Radio and Television Station’s “Focus Interview” will broadcast a series of programs “The Password of the Leader”, focusing on those industries and industries in my country’s manufacturing industry that have quietly accumulated and made efforts to become leaders in the domestic and international markets.
In this issue, we focus on the traditional industry of “textile”.
Textile is a traditional industry and an indispensable and important part of the national economy. From a fiber to the final garment, China has formed the most complete textile industry chain in the world, and has gradually grown from a major textile country to a powerful country in the global textile industry. What kind of industry development leadership code is hidden behind this?
Intelligent transformation
“Thousands of people gauze, ten thousand people cloth” has become history
Our country’s annual fiber processing accounts for more than 50% of the world’s total. In 2021, textile and clothing exports reached 316 billion US dollars, accounting for one-third of the world’s total. The current retail scale of China’s clothing market exceeds 4.5 trillion yuan. Supporting these huge figures is China’s textile industry chain, which is the world’s largest, has the most complete supporting facilities and is constantly transforming and upgrading.
With the reform and opening up, especially after China joined the World Trade Organization in the early 21st century, the textile industry released huge production capacity and continuously provided cheap and high-quality clothing to the world. But at the same time, China’s textile industry has ushered in a new era. “Our own body is already very large, and it is unlikely that it will run any faster.” Sun Huaibin, vice president and spokesman of the ChinaTextile Industry Federation, said, Faced with a series of factors such as changes in the market environment, pressure on comprehensive costs, environmental protection pressure, and rising labor costs, China’s textile industry must transform and upgrade, and develop from a large to a strong one.
Nowadays, the situation where textile companies once had “thousands of people yarn, ten thousand people cloth” has become history. In a high-end new special yarn production plant in Zaozhuang, Shandong, currently only 35 people are needed to produce 10,000 spindles. More than 30 years ago, a factory with 100,000 spindles had 10,000 people, which is equivalent to 1,000 workers for 10,000 spindles.
In a huge automated warehouse in Changshu, Jiangsu, a piece of clothing can be locked in 3 minutes, and a courier order will be automatically attached and sent to the transport vehicle. The entire warehousing area has a daily throughput of up to 1 million pieces, and handling, sorting, distribution, and inventory counting are all completed by robots.
Li Lingshen, vice president of the China Textile Industry Federation and deputy director of the National Textile Standardization Technical Committee, said, “After several years of industry digitization, networking, and intelligentization iterations Upgrading, the labor productivity efficiency, intelligent manufacturing level and digital service level of the entire industry have been greatly improved, and labor productivity has been greatly improved.”
Differentiated routes to make products that others cannot make
Accelerate the move to the higher end of the industrial chain
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, my country’s economy has shifted from a stage of rapid growth to a stage of highquality development, and revolutionary changes have taken place in the production methods of the textile industry. A group of innovative textile companies have accelerated their progress towards the higher end of the industrial chain through transformation and upgrading.
Microfiber is widely used in many fields such as high-end clothing, high-performance filter materials, and clean materials. The “island microfiber” developed by a Chinese company from laboratory research to industrial mass production has a diameter of only 1/100 of a human hair, and there are 2,664 monofilaments distributed inside. A microfiber monofilament weighing 112 grams can circle the Earth’s equator once. This company’s annual output of microfiber products already accounts for about 60% of the world’s total.
Adhering to the differentiated route and making products that others cannot make is the key for this company to go from following to leading the industry. The company uses recycled plastic bottles to produce regenerated fiber. It can produce 250,000 tons of regenerated fiber a year and digest 12.5 billion waste plastic bottles. In 2020, this company took the lead in establishing the National Advanced Functional Fiber Innovation Center, which is also the country’s first national innovation center led by a private enterprise.
In April 2022, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the National Development and Reform Commission jointly issued the “Guiding Opinions on the High-Quality Development of the Chemical Fiber Industry”, proposing to build a high-end, intelligent, and green modern fiber industry system by 2025, and comprehensively build a chemical fiber powerhouse. . “Chemical fiber is the most important component of textile fiber materials. my country’s chemical fiber production accounts for more than 70% of the world.” Li Lingshen said that the high-quality development of the chemical fiber industry is directly related to the sustainability of the entire textile industry. Development and security of industrial and supply chains are controllable.
Use “technology, green, fashion”
Responding to people’s transition from dressing warmly to dressing well
At the end of 2020, the Chinese Academy of Engineering organized a number of academicians and experts to compare and analyze my country’s 26 manufacturing industries and manufacturing powers and concluded that 5 industries in my country are at the world’s advanced level.�Leading among them is the textile industry. This also means that my country’s goal of becoming a textile power has been basically achieved. This is a milestone for the textile industry to promote high-quality development through transformation and upgrading.
Technology, green, and fashion are the industrial positioning for high-quality development of my country’s textile industry. The high-quality development of the textile industry’s production field is in response to the increasingly affluent Chinese people’s shift from wearing warm clothes to wearing well-dressed and diverse clothes. Pursue.
A customized clothing company in Dalian, in addition to offline stores, a large part of its sales comes from online orders. Consumers can not only choose fabrics and participate in style design online, but can also take measurements remotely. They only need to take photos as required to intelligently display the size data of collar circumference, waist circumference and other parts.
Personalized customization and flexible production meet people’s diverse clothing needs, giving rise to a large number of niche brands and more room for imagination. The new format of live streaminge-commerce has brought about tremendous changes in the traditional model of the clothing industry from design to production, and from wholesale to retail.
Beyond the traditional concept of “clothes and quilts for the world”
Become an important means of “weaving the world”
Under the guidance of new development concepts, my country’s textile industry is not only becoming bigger and stronger in all aspects, undergoing transformation and upgrading, but the application fields involved in the textile industry are also constantly expanding.
From functional sportswear for Winter Olympic athletes, to aerospace special equipment materials, to “bag dust” filtration technology used in industrial dust air pollution control, today’s textile industry has far surpassed the traditional sense of “clothing” The concept of “being the world” has become an important means of weaving the world. With the continuous expansion of application fields, and high-end, intelligent, green, etc. becoming the foothold of enterprises, we also have unlimited imagination for the future of China’s textile industry.
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