Let the world know the real Chinese cotton textile industry

During the transformation and upgrade, “120 million ring spinning, 2.32 million rotor spinning and 1.26 million looms” were in progress. With such a set of data, the spinning production capacity of China’s cotton textile industry has exceeded 50% of the global total. Its great power status was unmoved.

National Bureau of Statistics data show that in 2010 China's yarn production was 27.17 million tons, and cloth output was 80 billion meters. The rapid development of the cotton textile industry has effectively promoted the development of the rural economy and solved the problem of the transfer and employment of rural surplus labor; the growth of textile cotton has led to an increase in the income of cotton farmers, and at the same time it has stimulated domestic chemical fiber staple fibers and other cotton fibers. The production satisfies the needs of downstream industries such as knitting, home textiles, printing and dyeing, garments, and industrial applications, yarns and fabrics of different specifications and types, and has played a positive role in promoting the downstream industry's production and export growth.

During the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period, China's cotton textile industry further accelerated the pace of transformation and upgrading, increased the upgrading of technical equipment, eliminated backwardness, and continuously improved product quality and independent innovation capabilities. In 2010, the key equipment for cotton spinning (equipment after 2000) reached 71%, of which the automatic winder and shuttleless looms increased nearly 14 and 18% respectively. At the same time, the international competitiveness of China's cotton textile industry is also steadily improving. On the one hand, the total volume of China's cotton textile import and export trade continues to grow. The level of export products has gradually increased and the value chain has been upgraded. On the other hand, the import and export market of China's cotton textiles has taken on a new pattern. The export market consists of Hong Kong, ASEAN, and the United States. , Japan, and the European Union, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and ASEAN have formed China's major import markets, among which ASEAN’s share of China’s cotton textile import and export market has grown rapidly, indicating that China’s cotton textile export market is more diversified and emerging. The market demand is gradually expanding.

During the "11th Five-Year Plan" period, the regional layout of China's cotton spinning industry has become more optimized. The investment speed in the central and western regions has been accelerating. In 2010, the amount of investment in the eastern region reached 43.28 billion yuan, accounting for 50.9% of the total investment in the country. Investment in the central and western regions accounted for 40% of the total, and investment growth was nearly 14 percentage points compared with 2005.

In recent years, China's cotton textile industry has also made outstanding achievements in brand building. In particular, a number of industry leaders have emerged. As of the end of 2010, there were 12,000 cotton textile enterprises in the country, and the main business income, total profit, and industrial output value of the cotton textile industry accounted for about 27% of the national textile industry. In 2010, among the 12,000 cotton textile enterprises, the top 100 companies accounted for about 30% of the entire industry. These companies have their own brands, have core competitiveness, and have strong bargaining power. They are recognized by the domestic and foreign markets. The degree is generally higher.

Concerned about the sustainable development of the overall point of view, China's cotton textile industry due to the development of a good foundation, has now formed a relatively complete industrial chain, equipment has reached the world advanced level. However, China's cotton textile industry is still in a complex economic development environment. There are still some problems and difficulties within the industry. At the same time, there are also some external factors that hinder the healthy development of the cotton textile industry. After undergoing rapid growth in 2010, the cotton textile industry in the first quarter of the “12th Five-Year Plan” started to perform well overall, but since mid-March, due to multiple factors such as changes in the international and domestic markets and falling cotton prices, etc. Affected, the cotton textile market continued to weaken until the end of August, the market gradually stabilized.

As the basic industry of China's textile industry, cotton textiles cannot be underestimated. The large fluctuations in cotton prices have seriously affected the market confidence of enterprises. The current situation of “high-priced inventory and low-priced products” in the industry has reduced the overall profit of the industry. In addition, the instability of the international market recovery, unbalanced pressures, and the pressure of appreciation, the sharp increase in production costs, the shortage of labor force, and the “high levy and low deduction” of taxation in the cotton spinning industry all constrain the current cotton textile industry. The big problem of faster development.

Zhu Bina, president of the China Cotton Textile Industry Association, pointed out that based on these issues and challenges, the future of China's cotton textile industry should focus on the two themes of scientific and technological development and sustainable development, technological progress, industrial upgrading, structural adjustment, brand building, market development and benefits. Strengthen efforts and other aspects. During the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period, the focus of cotton textile industry development is to strive to improve product quality and quality, improve the level of advanced equipment, increase labor productivity, accelerate the elimination of high-energy-consuming equipment, and take smart, low-consumption, sustainable green The road to development, the use of scientific management mode to improve business efficiency, realize the orderly transfer of industries and promote regional coordinated development.

The China International Cotton Textile Conference is a grand meeting of the wisdom and collision of colleagues in the cotton textile industry around the world. Recalling the previous China International Cotton Textile Conference, it can be found that each meeting basically reflects the staged issues facing the domestic and foreign cotton textile industry. From the first post-pressing inaugural meeting to the second session before China’s accession to the WTO, to the third session in the context of frequent trade frictions in the post-quota era and to the “rejuvenation of the cotton textile industry” held during the financial crisis in 2009. - The 6th China International Cotton Textile Conference with the theme of "Adjustment, Upgrade and Innovation". Each session has distinctive themes and features, which fully reflect the practical problems encountered in the development of the industry. The background of this year's International Conference on Cotton Spinning held in Yancheng, Jiangsu this year is that China has entered the first year of the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” with the transformation of development mode as the main line, and is facing an uncertain international textile market situation. Therefore, the agenda of the meeting is very clear: “ Industrial adjustment and sustainable development - the world and China.

In order to make the content of this conference more pragmatic and more pertinent, the China Textile Industry Association, the organizer of the conference, divided the special lecture of this conference into two parts: industrial restructuring of the textile globalization and sustainable development. Respectively on the structural adjustment and development trend of the international textile industry chain, how to shift from labor-intensive to technology- and capital-intensive, global cotton market analysis and risk mitigation strategies, development of African cotton and textile industry, technological innovation, green production and sustainability Development, optimization of resource allocation and industrial transfer, application prospects of new raw materials in the cotton spinning industry, development trend of new global textile machinery technologies, informatization, and intelligence to increase labor productivity, etc. The contents of the forum mainly include cotton textile raw materials and market demand, and ways to improve the company's core competitiveness.

What is the current cotton textile industry to encourage, develop, and promote? What backward equipment needs to be eliminated from cotton textile enterprises and how to upgrade? The world cotton textile industry structure will show what kind of development trend, how China's cotton textile industry and the world's cotton textile industry to develop in harmony? I believe that this gathering of global industry leaders, experts' wisdom and ideas, and the opinions and experience of the industry's elite in creating the most up-to-date values ​​will surely provide the most effective answers to all questions.