Contrary to the trend, an increase of 9.6%! According to the latest data released by the General Administration of Customs, in 2020, my country's textile and apparel exports totaled US$291.22 billion, which ended successfully with a year-on-year increase of 9.6%.

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　　 With the support of the “stabilizing foreign trade” policy, China’s textile and apparel exports have withstood the huge impact of the epidemic. Among them, textiles have achieved growth for 9 consecutive months since April, and clothing has reversed since August. Textile and clothing exports have achieved growth for five consecutive months, directly driving the overall export growth of national trade in goods by 1%, becoming an important driving force for the growth of national trade in goods.

The stable release of export competitiveness has benefited from the continuous 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 supply chain system of the domestic textile industry also reflects my country's textile industry from one side. The industry practice of in-depth adjustment and improvement of development quality.

　　 In 2020, in the face of the challenge of the epidemic, how is the overall operation of my country's textile and apparel industry? As an important industry for improving people's livelihood, how can the textile and apparel industry achieve high-quality development during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period? Recently, the 15th China Textile Roundtable Forum hosted by the China National Textile and Apparel Council 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 garment industry.

　　 Domestic demand warms up, exports counterattack, and the textile industry's competitiveness is significantly enhanced

"In recent years, the overall development of my country's textile industry has been in a stage of in-depth adjustment and transformation, focusing on improving the quality of development. In 2020, affected by the epidemic, the textile industry has also been affected." At the forum, Gao Yong, Secretary of the Party Committee and Secretary-General of China Textile Industry Federation, said However, with the steady progress of domestic resumption of work and production, various operating indicators of the textile industry have shown a continuous upward trend. In the second half of the year, the domestic demand market of my country's textile industry has shown a clear trend of recovery.

　　According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the year-on-year decline in retail sales of clothing, shoes, hats, needles and textiles of units above designated size gradually narrowed from more than 30% at the beginning of the year to 7.9% in the first November.

　　Whether domestic demand has improved, companies feel the most obvious. Offline, rushed to Shanghai to participate in the domestic flour and accessories exhibition, online, participated in e-commerce activities for the first time, directly to 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 stage’ at the sales end, the company’s revenue can quickly recover and grow against the trend,” said Liu Peiyi. While the domestic demand market is picking up, the export market has risen sharply. Driven by the export of anti-epidemic materials such as masks and protective clothing, the export competitiveness of my country's textiles has been steadily released, and the export scale is close to the industry's historical best level set in 2014.

　　 Not only is the total export volume increasing, the export structure is also adjusting. "For the first time, textile exports surpassed clothing, accounting for 52.8% of total exports, which has caused changes in the export structure of the textile industry." Gao Yong said that we should see that with the restart of overseas economies in the second half of the year, my country's textile industry system will be perfected and supplied. The stability advantage of the chain operation is apparent, clothing exports are gradually improving, and the decline in exports has narrowed to 6.4% by the end of the year.

　　 Gao Yong introduced that looking back on 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 In terms of quality, production efficiency, independent process technology and equipment, it has generally reached the international advanced or leading level.

　　According to the report "Strategic Research on Promoting the Building of a Manufacturing Power towards 2035" issued by the Chinese Academy of Engineering not long ago, the textile industry has become one of the five major industries in my country in an advanced position in the world. Sun Ruizhe, chairman of the China National Textile and Apparel Council, commented that textile technology innovation has moved from "following" to a new stage where "following, running, and leading" coexist.

　　Towards high-quality development, we still need to 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, how should the textile industry respond to challenges and continue to move towards high-quality development?

"We must face up to the industry gap with developed countries, especially the gaps in my country's textile industry in cutting-edge technology independent innovation, brand and fashion soft power, green development leadership, and international supply chain control capabilities." Gao Yong said, 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.

　　——Science and technology innovation is more "stronger", it must be made, but also made fine and well made.

"In the next step, the textile industry should solve the problem from manufacturing to refined manufacturing, and ultimately to good manufacturing, and truly realize precision manufacturing, green manufacturing, and intelligent manufacturing." Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and President of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Shan Zhongde believes On the one hand, we should continue to promote the research and development of intelligent high-quality textile equipment, improve efficiency, performance and digitalization, and truly realize automatic perception, intelligent decision-making, and automatic execution; on the other hand, we should also actively develop service-oriented textile manufacturing and promote personalized customization. The production model, including the remote design innovation center, realizes the production of individualized products by means of industrial batches and expands market demand.

　　 In fact, in recent years, many textile companies have deepened their cutting-edge technological innovation. Not long ago, at the press conference of the 6th China Industry Awards, Anhui Huamao Textile Co., Ltd. won the award for its new-type spinning intelligent transformation project, relying on its developed spinning yarn with multiple independent intellectual property rights. The intelligent manufacturing process technology, its pioneering "air flow removal and flexible opening" technology can not only improve the removal efficiency of cotton impurities, but also reduce the fiber damage during the opening process, which greatly improves production efficiency.

　　-Manufacturing is more "green", not only recycling waste products, but also energy saving and carbon reduction in the production process.

"In the past, the textile industry only cared about end-of-line pollution control. Next, it will be extended to the whole process control and targeted and precise pollution control." Professor Wen Zongguo of the School of Environment of Tsinghua University believes that clean production processes and equipment, especially green chemistry The substitution of products should become an important direction for the sustainable development of the textile industry in the future.

Wen Zongguo proposed that from the perspective of the recycling of waste textiles, compared with developed countries, the proportion of recycling in my country’s textile industry is still low. The next step should be to extend the responsibility of the producer to make enterprises not only responsible for product quality. , And also take responsibility for its recycling and waste disposal.

　　——Textile products are more "excellent", strengthen the research and development of fine processing technology for the whole industry chain, and expand the market with high-end products.

According to Zhang Yansheng, chief researcher of China International Economic Exchange Center, the future textile industry should tell stories of science, technology, innovation and talents, and improve the status of the global industrial chain value chain division of labor through the development of high-end textile products. .

"To be specific, it is to integrate new materials, new technologies and the upgrading trend of domestic consumption, develop high-end textile products with high comfort, easy care, antibacterial health and other multi-functional high-end textile products, and continuously improve the quality and added value of technology. The application space of materials can open up new market demands." Gao Yong said.