Pursue high-quality and sustainable development of the entire cotton industry chain and promote the upgrading of the cotton industry foundation

In June this year, the “Textile Industry’s “14th Five-Year Plan” Development Outline” (hereinafter referred to as the “Outline”) was released. The new formulation of “promoting the upgrading of the industrial base” in the “Outline” is eye-catching and has also triggered more thinking in the industry. It is said to be a new formulation, but in fact everyone is familiar with this statement. Since 2019, it has been repeatedly mentioned in central documents, and the “14th Five-Year Plan” has also officially raised it as a key issue in the strategy of creating a strong country. As a pillar industry for the national economy and social development, a basic industry for solving people’s livelihood and beautifying life, and a dominant industry for international cooperation and integrated development, the textile industry is very important to promote the upgrading of the industrial base.

High sustainability makes up for the shortcomings of the cotton system

Accelerating the filling of shortcomings such as basic fiber materials is one of the specific methods in the “Outline” to promote the upgrading of the industrial base. Cotton can be said to be the most basic fiber material in the textile industry. my country is the world’s largest cotton consumer and the second largest cotton producer. The total demand is about 8 million tons, accounting for about Accounting for 1/3 of the world’s total consumption, cotton’s every move has always affected the “nerve” of the textile industry. In addition, our country has become the country with the strongest technical level, management level and new product development capabilities in the world’s cotton textile industry. It provides more than 40% of high-quality yarns and gray fabrics and more than 80% of high-grade yarns and gray fabrics for the global textile supply chain.

Judging from this series of data, China’s cotton and cotton spinning industries have very strong basic capabilities; so are there any shortcomings in the cotton fiber field that need to be filled? As we all know, although China has huge cotton production capacity and market, the Chinese cotton industry has never had a say. To increase the right to speak, it is not only necessary to improve the basic capabilities of cotton, cotton spinning and other industries, but more importantly, it is necessary to promote the internationalization of China’s relevant standards, establish a certification organization with a global perspective, and achieve international acceptance. Only in this way can my country’s cotton and cotton spinning industries be further promoted. The upgrading of basics is also a very important starting point for us to enhance our advantages in international competition and cooperation.

In fact, the industry has already had such an idea and put it into action. On June 8, an initiative led by Huafu Fashion Co., Ltd., Heilan House, Semir, Peacebird, Metersbonwe, Septwolves, Xtep, 361, Aimu, Hongdou, Urban Beauty and Hangzhou Junmeng, The preparatory meeting for the “Highly Sustainable (HQS) Cotton Industry Cooperation Organization” co-sponsored by Hangzhou Chenfan and more than ten well-known brands, listed companies, and internet celebritiese-commerce was held in Shanghai . Gao Kexu means “highquality and sustainable development”. The organization will pursue the high quality, sustainability and carbon traceability of the entire cotton industry chain as its mission, meaning Based in China, entering Asia and facing the world, we are committed to becoming one of the most influential cotton industry organizations in the world and creating a cotton standard brand system recognized by consumers and industry colleagues.

Sun Weiting, chairman of Huafu Fashion Co., Ltd., the initiative unit of High Sustainability (HQS), said: “Chinese cotton plays a very important role in the global industry. No matter what kind of disruption the cotton market suffers, consumers’ expectations for a better life will continue to grow. The yearning and pursuit of high-quality cotton products will not change. At present, the market and industry are calling for the emergence of a new cotton industry organization with a new era mission, more broad representation, fairness and justice, self-discipline and autonomy, to open up a new situation Promote the world’s cotton industry to be more open, inclusive and sustainable, while creating a high-quality life for global consumers with high-quality supply.”

Traceability may be the key to solving the problem

High Sustainability (HQS) will establish a cotton industry standardization system that is more objective and fair, emphasizing transparency and traceability, based on digital intelligence technology and market-oriented operations, including cotton high quality standards, production certification standards, and recycled cotton certification. standards and carbon footprint certification standards.

Among them, the carbon footprint certification standard is a highlight, and the co-sponsors of High Sustainability (HQS) have stated that this may become the key to solving the cotton dilemma. As Sun Ruizhe, president of the China Textile and Apparel Federation, recently said, green and low-carbon transformation is related to the foundation and foundation of the security of China’s textile industry, and determines the foundation and stamina of industrial development. Whether Chinese fashion and Made in China can gain greater respect on the basis of being welcomed by global consumers depends on whether they can become important contributors to global climate action and global sustainability. A major leader in sustainable production and consumption.

In the “Outline”, low-carbon and green are raised to unprecedented heights. “Green development has not only become a realistic factor in the international textile supply chain procurement decision-making and layout adjustment, but will also be an important source of the international competitiveness and voice of the textile industry. my country has formulated plans to achieve the peak of carbon emissions before 2030 and achieve the peak of carbon emissions by 2060. The goal of carbon neutrality has formed rigid requirements for the green development of the textile industry.”

Control global sustainable production and consumption from the source, and contribute to China’s “carbon peak” and “carbon emissions”� This is one of the original intentions of the creation of the “Highly Sustainable (HQS) Cotton Industry Cooperation Organization”. At present, the initiating unit of High Sustainability (HQS) has released the world’s first carbon footprint data on Xinjiang cotton. On June 1 this year, PEACEBIRD, Huafu and other companies jointly released the first Xinjiang cotton product to conduct carbon footprint assessment on the entire supply chain process from cotton planting and picking, ginning to spinning, to fabric and garment manufacturing. T-SHIRT. A series of front-end carbon footprint data such as cotton planting, picking, ginning, and spinning all come from Huafu.

In this regard, Sun Weiting said: “Huafu Fashion has a complete industrial chain from cotton planting, processing and trading to dyeing and spinning, and has formed a ‘three yarns in one’ spinning base. We have been committed to establishing A traceable supply chain system for the entire industry chain to promote sustainable development of the industry and strengthen raw material quality endorsement. To this end, Huafu has done a lot of practice in carbon emissions, chemical management, water management, circular economy and other aspects in the past two years .” It is reported that so far, Huafu’s subordinate factories have been awarded 2 national green factories, 4 industry green standards, 10 green design products, and obtained IS050001 energy management system certification, carbon footprint assessment certification, etc.

“Huafu Fashion and the Highly Sustainable (HQS) Cotton Industry Cooperation Organization will continue on this path unremittingly. The essence of consumption is value consumption. The mainstream global values are to protect the earth and sustainable development, which is also Huafu and HQS must uphold their responsibilities,” he said.

Digitalization process drives new manufacturing

In order to establish a truly effective carbon footprint certification standard, HQS has incorporated blockchain and other digital and intelligent technologies into the system construction from the very beginning. . An important item in the “Outline” to “promote the upgrading of the industrial base” is: strengthening the industrial Internet, big data, blockchain and other intelligent manufacturing applications of key supply technologies in the textile industry In-depth integration will enhance the industry’s digital and intelligent basic capabilities.

Sun Weiting expressed that he is very confident in the application of high-sustainability (HQS) technology. After all, Huafu Fashion has been accelerating the digitalization process in recent years, reshaping the traditional production chain, and using new manufacturing to promote the high-end development of China’s economy and textile industry. Quality development, successful experience can be copied.

Since 2018, Huafu has begun to lay out the industrial ecological chain from sample design, product manufacturing to commodity trading, with the aim of creating a flexible supply chain operation platform from “field to shop”. However, to improve the efficiency of production and marketing collaboration, it is necessary to open up the data flow between the supply chain and production and marketing through the industrial Internet platform. At present, the digitization of the consumer and retail side has been completed, but the value of digital transformation on the manufacturing side has not yet been fully explored.

To this end, at the beginning of 2020, Huafu Fashion launched a digital factory construction project. It and Guangdong Meiyun Smart Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Midea Group, used Huafu’s 150,000-ingot factory as an industrial Internet pilot project. After the implementation of the project, the factory’s data for that month compared with previous months, the overall output increased by about 7%, and the efficiency of bottleneck process equipment increased by about 5%. The relevant person in charge of Huafu Fashion Digital Project said that the digital factory has opened up the company’s internal information barriers and improved collaborative work efficiency, factory bottleneck equipment efficiency, 10,000-piece unit output, per capita unit unit, abnormal response speed, etc. Huafu now has a scale of 2 million spindles and an annual output of 300,000 tons of new yarns. As the advantages of scale become increasingly apparent, digitalization will promote geometric growth in both efficiency and effectiveness.

Subsequently, in September of the same year, Huafu Fashion and Meiyun Intelligent Data signed a “Framework Agreement” to conduct all-round cooperation in the field of spinning intelligent manufacturing, and hoped to digitize all production capacity within two years. In order to accelerate the overall digitalization process of the industry’s production end, Huafu Fashion, based on the successful launch of the project, also popularized the experience and technology to the spinning industry, and is committed to building an industrial Internet SaaS platform to achieve industrial data interoperability, industrial efficiency improvement, Goals such as shortening the supply chain cycle, streamlining inventory, and improving efficiency will help the industry truly realize new manufacturing.

Under the changes of a century, the global production and manufacturing system is being reorganized, but digitalization, intelligence, low-carbon and green are the unanimous and firm direction of global consumers. It is imperative to promote the upgrading of the cotton industry foundation. Whether it is from the perspective of the necessity of establishment, the completeness of system construction, or the technical aspects of operation, the “Highly Sustainable (HQS) Cotton Industry Cooperation Organization” is obviously ready for this.

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