Textile industry: responding to industrial transfer with smart manufacturing and green development

In recent years, the new round of global textile industry transfer has shifted from low-end to Southeast Asia and high-end to Europe and the United States. China's textile industry is facing the challenge of “high and low”. Industry experts believe that it is necessary to use intelligent manufacturing and green development as an important starting point to achieve transformation and upgrading in industrial transfer.

The National Textile Industry Transfer Working Conference and the Workshop on Intelligent Manufacturing and Ecological Development were held recently in Fuyang, Jiangsu Province. In-depth discussion was conducted on how to better optimize the resource allocation in the textile industry under the new situation. The guests thought that the cost-sensitive and labor-intensive textile and garment industry is inevitably seeking cost and land, but the current textile industry has entered a new historical period. It is necessary to explore new ways and paths of development. Green development is an important starting point, accelerating the cultivation of new kinetic energy and core competitiveness, and achieving transformation and upgrading in industrial transfer.

"The textile industry is the leading industry for industrial transfer. It is necessary to start from the national conditions of China and understand and grasp the new round of industrial transfer that is underway: accelerate the transfer under the new normal, promote industrial transfer under the new strategy, and lead the industry under the new concept. Transfer." Cao Tingrui, director of the Textiles Division of the Consumer Products Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said.

At present, the new round of global textile industry transfer has the characteristics of two-way transfer, that is, the middle and low end shifts to Southeast Asia, and the high-end returns to Europe and the United States. The Chinese textile industry faces the challenge of “high and low”. In order to ensure the domestic industrial transfer to achieve the "two wins" of transfer and transfer, economic development and environmental protection, in recent years the country has 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 China are more comprehensive than those in parts of Southeast Asia. In the long run, we must advocate innovation, focus on talents, accelerate research and development, and foster new kinetic energy and core competitiveness. "To accelerate the formation of a textile intelligent innovation system, research and develop standards, norms and verification platforms for intelligent manufacturing in various industries and fields, promote smart manufacturing pilots and demonstration projects throughout the industry, and promote the development of textile intelligent equipment, sensors and software. Application, at the same time, we must gradually promote the pace of enterprise intelligence and build a model for the future development of the textile industry,” said Cao Tingrui.

Yang Jun, deputy secretary general of the China National Textile and Apparel Council, believes that policy orientation still plays a major role in industrial transfer, but at the same time there are problems such as environmental pressure, cost factor pressure, and uneven development of industrial transfer areas. Therefore, new content.

In fact, the textile industry has begun a new exploration in the process of industrial transfer. Located in Fuyang, northern Jiangsu, economic development has accelerated in recent years. In order to accelerate the upgrading of the textile industry, one of the traditional leading industries, and accelerate the transformation from follow-up development to leading-edge development, Fuyang judged the situation and decided to seize the opportunity to focus on the two main lines of green and smart, and strive to create a height in the Xiangyang Economic and Technological Development Zone. Intensive and characteristic industrial park - Xiangyang Intelligent Knitting Industrial Park.

As the country's first intelligent knitting industrial park, the Xiangyang Intelligent Knitting Industrial Park is guided by the China National Textile and Apparel Council. It mainly focuses on intelligent knitwear, extending up and down to nylon, covered yarn, fabrics, socks, seamless underwear, etc. After the completion of the knitwear, the construction of the hatchery area, the growth area, the model area and the supporting area will be completed, and the production elements of the park, such as enterprise agglomeration, industrial agglomeration, brand service and property management, will be optimized. “The first phase of the project has been completed and signed into 6 companies. The second phase of the 100,000 square meter plant is expected to be delivered by the end of August.” Hu Jianjun, secretary of the Party Committee of the Shuyang County Party Committee and Secretary of the Party Committee of the Economic and Technological Development Zone, said that the smart knitting industrial park As a carrier platform, a number of innovative and intelligent projects have been gathered, leading the Xiangyang textile industry to transform and upgrade in an efficient, intelligent and ecological direction.

“The high starting point and high standard of Xiangyang Intelligent Knitting Industrial Park not only greatly promoted the improvement of the local textile industry, but also provided valuable experience for the construction of intelligent industrial parks in China's textile industry and the transformation and upgrading of the textile industry with intelligent manufacturing parks.” China Textile Sun Huaibin, vice president of the Industrial Federation, said. (Economic Daily reporter Xu Hongzhou)

(Editor: Liang Jingxue)