Low Carbon: A New Development Mode Of Textile Industry

Spin Clothing industry It is the first and most comprehensive practice of globalization in China. 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 12th Five-Year The opening year is the starting point for China's ten years of building a strong textile country. It must explore new development models and transform the growth pattern in the new round of development.

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

The developed countries have gone through the stage of industrialization and urbanization, while developing countries and underdeveloped countries are in 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 stage of economic development and economic structure determine the high energy consumption per unit GDP, and the shortage of technology and capital, so that the current situation of low carbon efficiency will not change 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, market Often failure, enterprises will reverse choice, when high carbon and high energy consumption enterprises will defeat the 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 accuse China of economic carbon emissions, distorting the status quo of China's textile industry unilaterally. Some government departments in China have completed the emission reduction targets by measures such as sluice production, capacity reduction and even restrictions on civilian energy, which obviously misunderstand the essence and real significance of low-carbon economy. This not only violates the tenet of low carbon economy, but also may lead to the loss of development opportunities and the opposite result of social economic 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. The invention of the steam engine provided impetus for the industrial revolution, and promoted the innovation and application of textile technologies such as Jeanne spinning machines. Thermal power generation 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 the equity between developed and developing, undeveloped countries and regions, the fairness of the same generation and the fairness between 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.

Therefore, low carbon is not equal to no carbon emissions or less carbon emissions, not 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, by optimizing the textile industry structure, reforming the textile process, creating new low-carbon products and expanding new fields of low carbon textile, advocating low-carbon lifestyle and consumption concept, and recycling the textile materials and products, so as to achieve a 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.

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 take 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, but its carbon efficiency is very low. Solving the problem of carbon efficiency, that is, the high output, high added value and high productivity of unit carbon emissions, can not be cut by the total surface. 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 practice of low carbon textile requires innovative thinking. First of all, low carbon is both a cost and an income, not only to input but also to output. It is both an industrial challenge and a market opportunity. 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 deep processing, shallow processing can achieve high added value, excellent quality? Why must long process, short process can replace or even achieve better efficiency and effectiveness? Why must we have high index, dyeing inconsistency, anti mechanical non replicability is often used as a unique way of expression. Why must batch homogenization be made? Coloured cotton and natural mineral dyes have few chromatograms and large differences. They can be used as high quality and natural signs. 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.