Garment Industry: Great Changes In Sustainable Development

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Reporter: this year is the year of "12th Five-Year", and the current volatile domestic and foreign industrial environment has given the Chinese textile and garment industry a great deal: the price of raw materials has fluctuated, the international debt crisis is frequent, the domestic silver is tightened, and the rise of labor, land price, energy and logistics price.

For the foreign trade type manufacturing industry, the pressure is greater, such as tariffs, trade barriers, and other national competitors for the local textile and clothing industry policy support.

How do you reasonably avoid and respond to this turbulent industrial economic operation environment?

Hu Faxiang: the textile and garment industry is one of the earliest industries to start market operation in China. Its self adjustment ability is quite strong.

First of all, we must have confidence in ourselves.

The economic development of textile and garment industry is based on the growing demand at home and abroad.

Despite the financial crisis, domestic and foreign economies have encountered such or such problems, the market environment is more complex, but consumer demand is still there.

As long as we take the initiative to adjust and optimize the industrial structure, and maintain and enhance our competitiveness, these problems can be overcome.

On the domestic market, China's economy continues to improve, the per capita income growth is significant, and the urbanization rate is greatly improved, which provides a necessary condition for the amplification of the domestic consumption market share of textile and clothing.

At present, the driving factors of industrial growth are changing from export to domestic consumption.

This is in line with the spirit of the national "12th Five-Year plan" put forward by the "building a long-term mechanism to expand domestic demand, and promoting economic growth to a coordinated Transformation Driven by consumption, investment and exports".

Looking at the international market, China's textile and clothing export base is large and the share of the international market is high.

Despite the recent sluggish market demand in some developed countries, the growth rate of China's textile and clothing exports has declined, and because of the rapid rise in the cost of our country, some products have been showing signs of shifting to other countries. But overall, the export of China's textile and garment industry has maintained a relatively rapid growth.

From January to July, textile and clothing exports increased by 25.3% over the same period last year, indicating that our competitive edge is still there.

The source of China's international competitive advantage has gradually changed from the low cost advantage to the comprehensive competitive advantage of the industrial chain.

Moreover, with the improvement of the technological level of textile and garment industry and the enhancement of innovation ability, the structure of export products is gradually developing towards high technology and high value-added products.

According to our calculations, the contribution rate of export price growth as high as 88.9% in the growth of total export volume of textile and clothing from January to July this year is much higher than that of export volume growth.

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Although the growth of export price is driven by cost, there are also factors that optimize the structure of our export products.

From this we can see that our export development mode is changing, not simply pursuing the growth of export volume, but pursuing the export benefit, and the export must be sustainable development.

It should be noted that this is a welcome progress.

What we need to do now is to actively guide more enterprises to actively adjust their business strategies and accelerate this pformation.

Reporter: as the terminal product of the industrial chain, clothing is facing more and more problems in sustainable development, such as the healthy and environmental protection of the auxiliary materials, the energy conservation and resource regeneration, and the natural degradation of the discarded clothes.

What do you think clothing enterprises should do to achieve sustainable development?

Hu Faxiang: clothing enterprises should understand the relationship between "sustainable development" and "environmental protection".

Sustainable development and environmental protection are related and not equal.

The core of sustainable development is development, but it requires economic and social development under the premise of protecting environment, sustainable utilization of resources and coordinated development of man and nature.

The reason is that the industrial structure is rationalized and highly developed.

In order to achieve sustainable development, we hope that garment enterprises will strive to achieve the 6 "pformation":

The pformation of the mode of economic growth will be changed from the quantity expansion mode to the quality benefit growth mode. The key point for the future development of the textile and garment industry is not to continue to expand the scale of production, but to upgrade the existing industrial processing capacity, and to gain benefits through improving efficiency and product quality.

The pformation of industrial technology innovation mechanism is pformed from the introduction of absorption and extension technology and the single industry technological innovation mode to the research and development of core technology and the integration of technological innovation. It is necessary to guide the establishment of a common technology development and promotion mechanism for industrial chain upstream and downstream enterprises cooperation and production, study and research.

The pformation of resources development and utilization mode is pformed from low level utilization, primary processing, high pollution and high consumption development mode to deep processing, low pollution, low consumption, ecological and recycling resources development and utilization mode, such as the development of chemical fiber super simulation fiber and natural biomass fiber resources, so as to make up for the shortage of natural fiber supply;

The pformation of industrial regional layout structure will be changed from small, scattered, low-level, homogeneous and repetitive layout structure to moderate scale, relatively concentrated, obvious advantages of regional characteristics and reasonable layout structure. The domestic textile and garment industry will promote the upgrading of industrial clusters and industrial gradient pfer. Some conditional enterprises can implement the international development strategy of "going global";

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The pformation of the concept of enterprise management and management has changed from the traditional management concept to the "people-oriented" modern management concept. For textile and garment enterprises, the implementation of China's textile enterprise social responsibility management system (CSC9000T) can systematically enhance the level of enterprise management and embark on the track of good development.

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Reporter: as for the 6 changes you mentioned above, the focus is on the "people-oriented strategy" which is the first to be made in the process of pformation from China to China.

For example, vocational skills and quality of different types of work, self-cultivation and utilization of design and marketing personnel, as well as the intake and digestion of international textile and clothing resources.

What do you think of this?

Hu Faxiang: man is the key to sustainable development.

And people's ideas and concepts should be changed.

First of all, we need to set up the right ones.

Secondly, people should change the concept of "light textile" and realize that textile and clothing are not sunset industries, but fashion.

Besides, we need to have a long-term vision.

Take the clothing brand as an example, many famous brands abroad have decades and hundreds of years of history.

Many of our enterprises have advanced hardware conditions and can produce first-class products. In fact, many international brand products are commissioned by our enterprises, but we are very different in terms of brand names.

It is hoped that the clothing people should persevere and work hard to improve their soft power and ultimately expand their brand influence.

Of course, there must be an international perspective.

In the use of international resources, many brand clothing enterprises have already been in the front. Some have hired foreign designers, others have outsourced R & D to foreign institutions.

It is hoped that more clothing people will be able to go out and understand the development and changes of international industry and market, learn the successful experience of international leading enterprises, make up their own shortcomings and complement themselves, and enhance interaction and coordinated development with the international industrial circles.

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Reporter: finally, can you tell us what the government and industry associations are doing in helping the sustainable development of clothing enterprises?

Hu Faxiang: policy plays an important role in the sustainable development of industry.

For example, increase investment, support the technological progress of enterprises, research and development of key technologies and products, promote the application of cleaner production technology of textile and clothing, formulate and implement relevant standards and norms, and guide the sustainable development of enterprises.

It is hoped that relevant functional departments will strengthen research and implementation of relevant industrial policies for sustainable development.

In fact, in recent years, the China Textile Industry Association has done a lot of work in this area, including establishing an industrial innovation platform and quality testing system, helping the small and medium-sized enterprises to enhance their innovative ability and quality management level; organizing professional activities, promoting the application of new cleaner production technologies; studying and formulating industry standards; carrying out various professional training and trade exchanges; organizing textile and garment exhibitions, promoting quality clothing brands and products; integrating resources, and building up a collaborative development platform for industrial chain upstream and downstream.

For example, in recent years, our center has made up 32 enterprises in the upper and lower reaches of the joint industrial chain to form a bamboo fiber alliance. Through information sharing, integration and development of resources, collaborative development and market promotion have greatly promoted the marketization process of Tianzhu fiber and its products.

In addition, the China Fashion alliance was established by our center, the China Fashion Association, China Fashion Color Association and the national textile product development center. The goal is to enhance China's fashion discourse power.

Last year, the Alliance launched its fashion debut in Shanghai. In October this year, it will again hold a series of fashion publishing activities in Shanghai, releasing outstanding products of brand enterprises, and introducing a large number of cutting-edge designers. At the same time, the second China fashion industry forum will be held.

Of course, the most important thing for the sustainable development of enterprises is to rely on their own efforts. The role of the government and industry organizations is to help enterprises achieve this goal better and faster.

Only when business operators realize their importance and voluntarily implement the concept of sustainable development in daily production and operation activities, will it be possible to achieve sustainable development, otherwise it is empty talk.