2011 Is The Opening Year Of 12Th Five-Year: Low Carbon Economy And Strong Textile Power.

Some government departments in China have completed the reduction targets with measures such as pulling power to limit production, reducing production capacity, and even restricting civil energy, which obviously misunderstood the essence and real significance of low-carbon economy.

This not only violates the tenet of low carbon economy, but also leads to the drop. Low carbon Efficiency and loss of development opportunities result in the opposite result of social and economic development.

The developed countries have already passed the development period of textile industry, and their textile industry occupies R & D, retail and design. brand marketing The top value added service industry is mainly service industry, and its unit output value of carbon emissions is of course less. On the one hand, China's textile industry should shoulder the responsibility of reducing emissions and transfer to the high end of the economy through industrial upgrading; on the other hand, it should strive for the right to development, the right to existence and the right to carbon emissions.

The core of low carbon strategy of textile enterprises is innovation and sustainable development. Through technological innovation, management innovation and mode innovation, low carbon economy can be realized to meet the common interests of consumers, enterprises and society.

China's textile industry has suffered the most in the financial crisis, but now the remaining debt has not returned, and the European sovereign debt crisis has started again. On the one hand, China's textile industry continues to accept the transfer and expand the global market space in the post MFA (multi fibre agreement) era. On the other hand, it has to face the international market recession caused by the financial crisis and usher in the new economic development dimensions such as fashion economy, information economy, network economy, creative economy and low carbon economy.

As the springboard of industrialization and the cradle of urbanization, Textile and clothing The industry is the first and most comprehensive practice of globalization. This makes China's textile industry the most textile processing industry in the world, and manufacturing, transportation and urban life are important carbon sources. 2011 is the opening year of 12th Five-Year. In the new round of development, China's textile industry must abandon the traditional "bottom up and low killing" and the low level expansion of the environment at the expense of the environment, explore new development models and transform the growth mode.

Pull down power and limit production

China's textile industry faces a dilemma of low carbonization

As a responsible big country, China has promised to reduce carbon emissions per unit GDP in 2020 by 40~45% over 2005. China's textile industry is facing the dual challenge of promoting economic growth and reducing carbon emissions.

The developed countries have already gone through the stage of industrialization and urbanization, while developing countries and underdeveloped countries are at the initial stage of industrialization, most of which are labor-intensive industries and energy consuming manufacturing industries in these countries. "Made in China" is a typical example. This economic development stage and economic structure determine the high energy consumption per unit GDP, and the shortage of technology and capital is not enough to change the carbon efficiency in a short time. And the high tech and high value-added industrial structure and highly developed economy make the GDP emission of unit low, but per capita consumption energy is far greater than that of developing countries.

When low carbon behavior leads to higher costs and lower profits, the market often fails and enterprises will reverse the choice. At that time, high carbon and high energy consumption enterprises will defeat low carbon enterprises. Textile global value chains are buyers driven. China's textile industry is at the low end of the value chain and is subject to international buyers, and the latter deserves more carbon reduction costs. Therefore, a low carbon economy needs a fair environment and effective incentive and restraint mechanisms to internalize low carbon social costs, otherwise the low carbon vision is just a fantasy.

Some international people criticize China's economic carbon emissions and distort the status quo of China's textile industry unilaterally. Some government departments in the country have completed the reduction targets with measures such as pulling power to limit production, reducing production capacity, and even restricting civilian energy, which obviously misunderstood the essence and real significance of low-carbon economy. This not only violates the tenet of low carbon economy, but also leads to the reduction of carbon efficiency and the loss of development opportunities, resulting in the opposite result of social economic development.

Seeking balance in dynamics

Low carbon economy advocates sustainable development

If the low-carbon economy is only understood as no carbon emissions or less carbon emissions, this is obviously a misinterpretation.

The early carbon emissions of mankind were far lower than the greenhouse gases released by natural forest fires and volcanic eruptions; and the invention of steam engines provided impetus for the industrial revolution, and promoted the innovation and application of textile technologies such as Jeanne spinning machines, and thermal power made human beings create material wealth with higher carbon efficiency. Even now, most of the existing technologies and methods of energy utilization still have the highest efficiency until there is no more advanced alternative.

The question is not whether to use carbon, but how to make rational use of carbon and maintain and restore the carbon balance of the environment. The solution is not to industrialisation, not to shut down factories, but to find alternative energy sources, technologies and methods. The key is fairness in developed and developing, undeveloped countries and regions, the fairness of the same generation, and the equity of the previous generation and the next generation, that is, the sustainable development of all mankind. This is the essence of low carbon economy.

Low carbon economy is an economic development mode, with a view to achieving the goal of high efficiency, high efficiency, high growth and sustainable development on the basis of low energy consumption, low pollution and low emissions. We should effectively resolve energy and resource constraints through clean energy and low-carbon technology, system and management innovation, and solve the dilemma of survival and development, equity and efficiency.

Low carbon economy is a philosophy of development. It is a fundamental transformation of human survival methods. It needs to build a low carbon system: low carbon social and economic relations among countries and countries throughout the world, from the production, circulation to consumption of industrial relations, from the natural to the production and life of the carbon cycle system. Low carbon economy also needs low carbon mechanism: carbon emission and carbon compensation, carbon trading, carbon labeling, internalization of carbon costs, carbon consumption, carbon consumption and carbon footprint. {page_break}

Therefore, low carbon is not equal to no carbon emission or less carbon emission. Low carbon is not equal to no consumption. Low carbon economy needs carbon balance. The purpose and starting point of low-carbon development is development, and the key to low-carbon development is innovation of development mode and economic structure.

Low carbon textile is based on the technology innovation of low carbon emissions, through optimizing the textile industry structure, reforming the textile process, creating new low-carbon products and developing new low-carbon textile fields, advocating low-carbon lifestyle and consumption concept, and recycling the textile materials and products, so as to achieve the sustainable growth mode of high efficiency, high quality and high added value textile industry.

Low carbon textile is based on new energy development, energy efficient applications and emission reduction technologies. The way out for low carbon textiles is the development of low carbon products and low carbon markets. The core of low-carbon textile is innovation, including technological innovation, system innovation and management innovation. Low carbon textile embodies structural optimization and transformation of development mode. Low carbon textile should not only open up a new path for the development of the industry itself, but also promote the global low carbon economy with new materials, new products and new applications.

Reverse speculation on carbon efficiency

Taking advantage of comparative advantage as cost

The developed countries have already gone through the development period of the textile industry. The textile industry occupies a high value-added part of R & D, retail, design, brand marketing and so on, mainly in the service industry. On the one hand, China's textile industry should shoulder the responsibility of reducing emissions and transfer to the high end of the economy through industrial upgrading; on the other hand, it should strive for the right to development, the right to existence and the right to carbon emissions.

China's textile industry has a large total carbon emission and low carbon efficiency. Solving carbon efficiency, that is, high output, high added value and high productivity of unit carbon emissions, can not be achieved by reducing the total surface volume. One size fits all or mandatory pull down production can not only improve the carbon performance of China's textile industry, but on the contrary, it will lead to backward productivity and low efficiency, and more likely to weaken the overall competitiveness of the industry, reduce the support of low carbon economic and technological innovation capability and carbon compensation capability.

The traditional development mode of "race to the bottom" can not solve the dilemma. The practice of low carbon textile requires innovation and speculation.

First of all, low carbon is both cost and income, both input and output, both industrial challenges and market opportunities. Low carbon textile will create new products, new industries and new markets, which will shape a better development environment and enhance the connotation of enterprises.

Secondly, we need to re examine and even subvert traditional textile thinking. Why must we go deep in processing? Can shallow processing achieve high added value and excellent quality? Why should we have long process? Can short process replace or even achieve better efficiency and effect? Why must we have high index? The inconsistency of dyeing, and the unreplicability of anti machinery is often regarded as a unique way of expression. Why must batch homogenization be made? Coloured cotton and natural mineral dyes have few chromatograms and big differences. They are just signs of high quality and pure nature. If natural dyes are inhomogeneous or faded, these are usually considered to be of quality problems, but they are highlighted by some fashion names.

China's textile industry has many competitive advantages. It should give full play to its advantages and make full use of world resources and other countries' advantages so as to fully embody the comparative advantages of China's economy, reduce consumption of resources, reduce waste in production and distribution, and enhance carbon efficiency.

Brewing a new growth point

Actively manage the "low carbon textile chain" system {page_break}

Low carbon economy shows new space and fields for traditional textile, promotes new growth points and even new industries.

It can be a new field that has nothing to do with textile or not. Textile enterprises will take advantage of physical capital and intellectual capital to enter new energy, new materials and other fields, which will contribute to China's low carbon economy, and will also upgrade the textile industry.

Textile materials and textile technology can be applied to new industrial fields. For example, high performance fiber and composite materials are used for lightening the means of transportation, and replacing high energy consumption materials for wind turbine blades components, so as to improve performance and reduce invalid load. New energy sources such as textile materials for fuel cells, flexible solar cell substrates, environmental protection and filtration materials for sewage treatment, as well as building insulation, smart curtain materials and road building reinforcement materials, to increase service life and reduce maintenance costs.

It can also transform traditional textile industry with innovative technology. The application of low carbon production technology, dyeing technology, weaving technology, regeneration technology, process reengineering technology, such as low strength fiber textile technology to transform traditional textile technology, shorten the process, reduce the high energy consumption and high pollution links such as sizing, desizing, and so on, shorten the process of yarn quality, expand the application technology of other natural fibers, increase the selection of raw materials, reduce the dependence on resources, and promote the application of energy saving printing and dyeing technologies, such as inkjet printing, normal temperature transfer printing, dyeing of chemical fibers at normal temperature, improve the accuracy of textile machinery, reduce the weight of machines and mechanical friction, reduce energy consumption, and adopt efficient cooling and heating technology.

Low carbon, environmentally friendly, clean and healthy products will be more popular with the global consumers' low carbon awareness and lifestyle changes. This opens broad market space for new products of low carbon textiles. Such products are the least carbon emission in the process of production and use, or even completely a new category of products, such as smart curtains, temperature adjusting clothing, energy saving thermal insulation materials and so on.

The so-called carbon cycle of textile is the carbon cycle in the process of production: comprehensive utilization of energy and reuse of water; the regeneration and recycling of textile materials and products; the use of renewable material materials; so that the textile industry chain is integrated into the carbon cycle of "carbon emissions carbon absorption", so that textile production, consumption and flow are integrated into the carbon balance process of nature.

In the low-carbon value chain, suppliers, manufacturers, brands, traders, retailers and consumers should bear corresponding responsibilities and obligations. Some of the international retail labels list their products are low carbon, yet they are too big to lower prices, unwilling to give profits to production suppliers, unwilling to help the latter increase investment to reduce emissions, which is both hypocritical and unfair to producers. Therefore, a low carbon textile chain system and mechanism must be constructed.

Low carbon is not an expedient measure.

Textile enterprises actively construct strategic framework

In the "low carbon economy", low carbon is not an expedient measure. Textile enterprises should take the initiative to plan and take the low-carbon strategy as the initiative, including:

Taking low-carbon as the philosophy of enterprises, it forms the common values and marketing ideas and prayers of enterprises and customers, and creates low-carbon and green corporate image.

Form a low carbon business model. From the gradual upgrading of OEA-OEM-ODM-OBM to the high-end of value chain, or through the construction of new business platform and profit mode through e-commerce, low carbonized paperless transaction and inventory reduction can be realized.

Through the optimization of product structure, the total carbonization of the production process can be realized. Through the development of natural fiber and biomass renewable materials, such as bamboo fiber and bassell, and other new materials, low carbon, energy saving, green, healthy and recyclable textile products can be developed to achieve low carbon consumption in the process of product consumption.

The market is guided by health, thrift, green and environment-friendly consumption concept. The low-carbon concept is strengthened by carbon footprint and carbon labelling, and the corporate ideology is embodied in recyclable, recyclable logo and low-carbon public welfare activities. {page_break}

Reduce excessive packaging, excess quality, redundant performance, improper life expectancy, excessive use and maintenance costs in textile product design. Research and development frugality and beautiful packaging, proper quality, meet the needs of performance, reasonable standards, customer expectations of consumption life, economic use costs, can mix and match textile and fashion products interchangeable.

Low carbonization process technology improves efficiency and quality by reducing the cost of individual products and quality; through process reduction and process innovation, such as vortex spinning, compact spinning, through new printing and dyeing processes, energy saving and emission reduction, such as normal temperature transfer printing, supercritical carbon dioxide dyeing, and dyeing and dyeing by use of colored silk and natural colored fibers, used for umbrellas, decorative textiles, automotive interior and high-grade clothing fabrics.

Through the integration of backwater utilization, power and heat and emission treatment, such as new boilers, new energy sources (geothermal, wind and solar energy), energy saving lamps will be promoted to reduce carbon emissions, reduce costs and increase profits.

In addition, digital technology and management mode innovation. For example, online design and proofing, EDI and paperless trade, quick response to reduce inventory, surplus goods and shortages, digital color system, digital flexible machining system, lean production, agile sales, digital warehouse automatic distribution, electronic label and video recognition (RFID) technology to improve distribution efficiency, third party logistics, market-oriented intensive emission and pollution treatment, clean production and low carbon audit, and establishment of resource and energy measurement system and standards.

In short, the core of the low carbon strategy of textile enterprises is innovation and sustainable development. Through technological innovation, management innovation and mode innovation, low carbon economy can be realized to meet the common interests of consumers, enterprises and society.