Textile industry: respond to industrial transfer with intelligent manufacturing and green development

In recent years, a new round of global textile industry transfer has been characterized by the transfer of low- and medium-end products to Southeast Asia and the return of high-end products to Europe and the United States. China’s textile industry faces the challenge of “impossible to achieve high quality and low quality”. Industry experts believe that smart manufacturing and green development should be used as important starting points to achieve transformation and upgrading during industrial transfer.

The National Textile Industry Transfer Work Conference and Intelligent Manufacturing and Ecological Development Seminar were recently held in Shuyang, Jiangsu Province, and conducted in-depth discussions on how the textile industry can better optimize resource allocation under the new situation. Guests at the meeting believed that it is inevitable for the cost-sensitive, labor-intensive textile and apparel industry to seek cost depressions and policy highlands. However, the current transfer of the textile industry has entered a new historical period, and new development methods and paths must be explored. Intelligent manufacturing and Green development is an important starting point to accelerate the cultivation of new driving forces and core competitiveness, and achieve transformation and upgrading during industrial transfer.

“The textile industry is the leading industry in industrial transfer. We must proceed from China’s national conditions to understand and grasp the new round of industrial transfer that is underway: accelerating transfer under the new normal, promoting industrial transfer under the new strategy, and leading the industry under the new concept Transfer.” said Cao Tingrui, director of the Textile Division of the Department of Consumer Goods Industry of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

At present, the new round of global textile industry transfer shows the characteristics of two-way transfer, that is, the low-end and mid-end are moving to Southeast Asia, and the high-end is returning to Europe and the United States. China’s textile industry is facing the challenge of “high-end products cannot be achieved, and low-end products cannot be achieved”. In order to ensure that domestic industrial transfer achieves a “win-win” between the transfer place and the transfer place, economic development and environmental protection, in recent years the country has successively introduced a series of corresponding policies to promote the healthy development of industrial transfer.

Cao Tingrui believes that the industrial supporting conditions in the central and western regions of my country have more comprehensive advantages than some regions in Southeast Asia. In the long run, we must advocate innovation, focus on talents, accelerate research and development, and cultivate new driving forces and core competitiveness. “It is necessary to accelerate the formation of a textile intelligent innovation system, research and formulate standards, specifications and verification platforms for intelligent manufacturing in various textile industries and fields, promote intelligent manufacturing pilots and demonstration projects in the entire industry, and promote the development and development of textile intelligent equipment, sensors and software. Application, and at the same time, it is necessary to gradually promote the pace of enterprise intelligence and build a future development model for the textile industry,” Cao Tingrui said.

Yang Jun, deputy secretary-general of the China Textile and Apparel Federation, believes that policy guidance still plays a major role in industrial transfer, but at the same time there are also problems such as environmental pressure, cost factor pressure, and uneven development of industrial transfer areas. Therefore, new policies must be given content.

In fact, the textile industry has begun new explorations in the process of industrial transfer. Shuyang, located in northern Jiangsu, has experienced rapid economic development in recent years. In order to accelerate the upgrading of the textile industry, one of the traditional leading industries, and realize the transformation from follow-up development to leading development, Shuyang reviewed the situation and decided to seize the opportunity and focus on the two main lines of green and intelligence to build a high-end textile industry in Shuyang Economic and Technological Development Zone. Intensive characteristic industrial park – Shuyang Intelligent Knitting Industrial Park.

As the country’s first smart knitting industrial park, Shuyang Smart Knitting Industrial Park is planned under the guidance of the China National Textile and Apparel Federation. It mainly focuses on smart knitwear, extending upstream and downstream to nylon, covered yarn, fabrics, socks, seamless underwear, etc. Knitwear, after completion, will complete the construction of incubation area, growth area, model area, and supporting area, and realize the optimal allocation of park production factors such as enterprise agglomeration, industrial agglomeration, brand services, and property management. “The first phase of the project has been completed, and 6 companies have signed contracts. The second phase of the 100,000-square-meter factory is expected to be delivered by the end of August.” Hu Jianjun, secretary of the Shuyang County Party Committee and secretary of the Party Working Committee of the Economic and Technological Development Zone, said that the smart knitting industrial park will As a carrier platform, a number of innovative and intelligent projects have been gathered to lead the transformation and upgrading of Shuyang’s textile industry in an efficient, intelligent and ecological direction.

“The Shuyang Intelligent Knitting Industrial Park has a high starting point and high standards. It not only greatly promotes the improvement of the local textile industry, but also provides valuable experience for my country’s textile industry to carry out the construction of intelligent industrial parks and promote the transformation and upgrading of the textile industry with intelligent manufacturing parks.” China Textile Sun Huaibin, vice president of the Industrial Federation, said.

Source|Economic Daily