Textile industry: digital empowerment to make up for shortcomings, paying equal attention to carbon reduction and making up for shortcomings

As the power of the digital economy engine continues to increase and the global climate governance situation becomes increasingly urgent, digital empowerment and green transformation provide key support for the textile industry to seek future business form evolution and economic development model upgrades, and achieve sustainable development. .

At the Fourth World Textile Merchant Conference held recently in Keqiao District, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province, Chairman of the International Federation of Textile Manufacturers and Chairman of the China Textile Industry Federation Changsun Ruizhe said that the global textile industry value chain is undergoing profound changes and is accelerating into a new era with digital and green as its core. China’s textile and apparel industry has shown strong resilience and vitality, playing an important role in promoting common prosperity and open development.

Transformation into intelligent weaving

At the 2021 China Well-known Textile Enterprises Innovation Achievements Exhibition, which was unveiled together with the Textile Merchant Conference, more than 30 industry leading companies gathered together, demonstrating the strong innovation energy of my country’s textile and clothing industry chain.

In the smart fashion clothing product display area, five brand companies including Winner Fashion, Aimer, Semir, Oriental International, and Qingdao Hongling exhibited sports smart underwear that can monitor human heart rate in real time, and Carbon fiberflexible heating clothes, “ice cream” Lyocell jeans, men’s multi-functional protective jackets, children’s anti-mosquito T-shirts and many other popular products in the market reflect the industry’s focus on intelligence, technology and fashion. High-end level in product development.

In the context of digital transformation, my country’s textile industry has undergone transformation and upgrading in terms of intelligent weaving.

As a traditional textile industrial center in Shaoxing, Keqiao, Shaoxing, accounts for more than 30% of the country’s printing and dyeing cloth output, and accounts for a quarter of the world’s textile trade. At present, it is exploring the application scenarios of “industrial brain + future factory” to create a textile printing and dyeing industry brain covering the entire industry chain and all elements, and promote Keqiao textile printing and dyeingindustrial cluster digital improvement.

Textile companies are seizing the huge opportunities brought by digitalization to find new development drivers. Deng Shengming, deputy general manager of Fujian Quanzhou Haitian Material Technology Co., Ltd., proposed that enterprises can use informatization as a support, rely on external production capacity integration, focus on product development and customer service, quickly respond to changing market requirements, and achieve transformation. Ensure data interoperability by effectively connecting data or collaborating systems with enterprises. He believes that in the context of digitalization, big data technology, automated printing and dyeing technology and digital design will form a smart design model to empower industrial development, effectively guide product development, reduce R&D costs, and achieve online multi-party interconnected communication.

At present, my country’s textile industry has formed system solutions in digital workshops, intelligent production, personalized customization, networked collaboration, etc., and has promoted them from pilot projects to the entire industry, achieving improvements in production efficiency and productQualityimprovement and significant results in energy saving, consumption reduction and emission reduction.

Qiao Yanjin, director of the China Textile Information Center, said that gradually establishing digital adaptability, connectivity and innovation to face the future will definitely help China’s textile and apparel industry become the main driver of the world’s fashion technology and an important leader in global fashion. A powerful promoter of sustainable development.

Pay equal attention to carbon reduction and shortcomings

As an important area for promoting carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, my country’s textile and apparel industry has always been an active force in global sustainable governance.

During the Textile Merchant Conference, 17 China’s market-leading brand companies and 40 key textile companies jointly held the “30·60 China Textile and Apparel Carbon Neutrality Acceleration Action” launch ceremony in Keqiao and announced climate action commitments: 6 We will launch a climate training camp within 12 months, start formulating “double carbon” goals within 12 months, publish a “double carbon” action plan and roadmap within 24 months, and conduct regular carbon information disclosures.

The “30·60 China Textile and Apparel Carbon Neutrality Acceleration Action” marks the transition from the spontaneous stage to the independent stage of the climate innovation 2030 action launched by my country’s textile and apparel industry in 2017. Cao Xuejun, a first-level inspector of the Consumer Goods Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that in response to climate change, the textile industry is at the forefront of active actions, from the “Carbon Management Innovation 2020 Action” to the “Climate Innovation 2030 Action” to the “30·60 China Textile “Accelerate Action on Clothing Carbon Neutrality” has been actively put into industrial practice. It has cultivated a number of pioneer companies and will lead more companies and even more industries to take action.

On the one hand, my country’s textile industry must reduce carbon emissions, but on the other hand, it also faces shortcomings such as overcapacity and being large but not strong. In this regard, Ding Zhongli, one of the main leaders of the “Carbon Neutral Framework Roadmap” project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, believes that the establishment of China’s “double carbon” goal is a major challenge for the transformation and upgrading of the textile industry, and it is also a rare opportunity. He suggested that textile enterprises should focus on technological innovation and rely on technological progress and innovation to drive high-quality development; at the same time, they should adhere to open cooperation, build a coordinated development model for the entire industry chain, and accelerate the formation of a green and low-cost economy. Carbon’s modern textile industry system.

According to reports, in order to strengthen the leading role of innovation-driven and technology in the direction of industrial low-carbon transformation, the China Textile and Apparel Industry Federation will create the “China Textile and Apparel Industry 3060 Carbon Neutral Acceleration Plan” Enterprise Sustainable Development Innovation Center to integrate Including the superior resources of the global industry chain from the government, industry management departments, think tanks, scientific research institutions, technical institutions, etc., focusing on supporting the “3060 Action Plan” enterprises to jointly carry out the “double carbon” goal Under the guidance of collaborative research and development, model exploration, technological innovation, product innovation, market application research, development and practice, and talent cultivation.

Strengthening global cooperation

As a window for dialogue, exchange and cooperation with the world’s textile industry, the World Textile Merchant Conference has been held for four consecutive years and has become an important force in promoting the spiral rise of the textile industry system.

Ma Weiguang, Secretary of the Shaoxing Municipal Party Committee, introduced that with the World Textile Merchant Conference as a starting point, Shaoxing has built collaborative innovation platforms that connect designers and engineers from around the world, and cooperates with international textile and fashion cities to build design dream factories and manufacturing cloud factories to promote digital Logistics construction has initially formed a new pattern of innovative development of the entire industry chain.

“In Shaoxing, China Textile City has established cooperative relationships with textile associations in 52 countries and regions. The market turnover has increased by an average of 19% in two years. Online transaction volume has grown by an average of 24% over the past two years, demonstrating the strong vitality of the textile industry amid the epidemic,” said Ma Weiguang.

“The theme of ‘Digital Empowerment·Green Symbiosis’ summarizes the challenges faced by the global textile and apparel industry.” In the view of Han Bekke, Chairman of the International Apparel Federation (IAF), the key to solving these challenges lies in global cooperation, and Chinese companies It is an integral part of the global textile and apparel supply chain.

“Currently, the global fashion industry needs to work more closely together to jointly cope with the challenges brought about by the new round of industrial change.” Mario Boselli, honorary chairman of the Italian National Fashion Chamber (CNMI), also agrees with the positive role of international cooperation. He said that Italy and China have many opportunities for complementary development in the supply chain of the fashion industry, and closer cooperation between the industries of the two countries will bring win-win results.

Our country is a major country in the production, consumption, and export of textiles and clothing. It has a complete industrial supporting system and internationally advanced overall technical equipment. China’s textile industry is indeed an important support for the smooth operation of the world’s textile industry system.

Sun Ruizhe said that my country’s textile and apparel industry must face changes with new practices, that is, to consolidate the manufacturing foundation and consolidate industrial scale and system advantages; strengthen technological innovation to form new development momentum; focus on content transformation to form new sources of value; Focus on market segments and build a more scalable market system; develop cluster economies and create a collaborative and efficient industrial ecology; accelerate green transformation and promote industrial recycling, low-carbon and sustainable development. He emphasized that strengthening cooperation and creating a more complete innovation system, a higher-quality manufacturing system, a more integrated market system, and a more responsible ecological system will be an important path to jointly creating the future of the global textile and apparel industry.

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