Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: China's textile industry continues to consolidate its competitiveness and enhance its brand culture confidence

On September 14, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology held the seventh news conference with the theme of "New Era Industry and Information Technology Development", the theme of which was "Promoting the Consumer Goods Industry to Increase Varieties, Improve Quality and Create Brands".

At the press conference, He Yaqiong, Director of the Consumer Goods Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, introduced the work of promoting the consumer goods industry to increase varieties, improve quality and create brands since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. He pointed out that the consumer goods industry is the most direct and closely integrated industry with the people's lives. It is China's traditional competitive industry and an important livelihood industry, covering the people's food, clothing, housing, transportation, education, medical care and other aspects, in meeting consumer demand It plays an indispensable and important role in stimulating economic growth, ensuring and improving people's livelihood, absorbing social employment, and expanding foreign trade exports. It is the basic platform for building the foundation of the real economy. In the past decade, the number of enterprises above designated size in the consumer goods industry has increased by 23.7%, and the number of employees of enterprises above designated size is about 27 million. The level of intelligent development has been significantly improved. The stability and overall competitiveness of the industrial chain supply chain have been continuously enhanced. There are 150 consumer goods enterprises with a scale of 10 billion in China, and the export volume of light industry and textiles accounts for more than 30% of the world's exports. Innovative products, such as wearable intelligent devices and functional clothing, are increasing day by day. Personalized customization mode is widely promoted. The consistency between clothing, home appliances, footwear and other fields and international standards has reached 95%. Sports shoes, bicycles, and beauty products are not only popular in China, but also become "hot" overseas. People's recognition of the "national trend" brand has significantly improved.

The application field has been continuously expanded, and the industrial competitiveness has been continuously consolidated and improved
Cao Xuejun, the first level inspector of the Consumer Goods Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that China is the world's largest producer, exporter and consumer of textiles and clothing, and has the supporting advantages of a complete industrial chain. Scientific and technological innovation has entered the coexistence stage of "simultaneous and leading" from "running with each other". Digital and green transformation has accelerated, application fields have continued to expand, and industrial competitiveness has been continuously consolidated and improved, It is specifically shown in the following four aspects.

First, the strength of scientific and technological innovation continued to increase. The collaborative innovation mechanism of the textile industry chain has been continuously improved, and the R&D investment of enterprises has been continuously strengthened. The industry has built two national manufacturing innovation centers, six national key laboratories, 81 national enterprise technology centers and other innovation institutions. A large number of key technologies have been broken through in fiber materials, textile equipment, green manufacturing and other fields, and the independent and controllable ability of the textile industry chain has been continuously enhanced.

Second, the reform of production mode has achieved remarkable results. The application of digital and green technologies has promoted the transformation of textile production mode. The cotton spinning digital spinning production line has reduced the number of cotton spinning workers from 60 to 15. The chemical fiber intelligent factory has realized the digitalization of the whole process of raw material transportation, process control, automatic winding and packaging, and even storage. A number of green factories and green supply chains have been built, and textile production has changed from large batch to personalized flexible production, meeting the needs of small batch, multiple varieties and timeliness.

Third, the industrial application field has been continuously expanded. In addition to meeting the basic needs of people's livelihood such as clothing and household use, the textile industry has been expanding in industrial applications. Industrial textiles are widely used in medical and health care, environmental protection, geotechnical architecture, aerospace and many other fields. Industrial textiles such as space suits, deep-sea ropes and cables play an important role in national key projects. Especially during the new epidemic, China's production capacity of industrial textiles such as masks and protective clothing expanded rapidly, making important contributions to global epidemic prevention and control. In 2021, the industrial textile fiber processing volume will be 19.35 million tons, nearly double that of 2012, accounting for one third of the total fiber processing volume.

Fourth, international cooperation has reached a new level. The textile industry actively uses the "Belt and Road", RECP and other mechanisms to build a mutually beneficial and win-win industrial cooperation system and open up diversified markets. In 2021, the total export of textiles and clothing will reach 315.5 billion US dollars, a record high, accounting for more than 30% of the world's exports of similar products. Since 2012, the accumulated foreign investment in the textile industry has exceeded 11 billion dollars, involving chemical fiber, spinning and weaving, clothing and other industrial chain links, strengthening capacity cooperation with Southeast Asia, Africa and other regions, and establishing a diversified elastic supply chain.