Focus Of The Two Sessions: Study New Situations And Seek New Breakthroughs In Textile And Garment Industry

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Around these contents, the NPC deputies and CPPCC members of the domestic textile and garment industry actively perform their duties and give full play to the role of participating in politics and politics. They have made an in-depth analysis of the status quo and future development of the industry, and have made positive suggestions.

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So what is the most pressing problem facing the textile and garment industry? How to solve these problems and difficulties? What jobs will the China Textile Industry Federation promote to better serve the enterprises?

On related issues, Wang Tiankai, chairman of the CPPCC National Committee and chairman of the China Textile Industry Federation, accepted an exclusive interview with our reporter.

Reporter: not long ago, China Textile Industry Federation carried out in-depth research on the domestic textile and garment industry cluster.

What is the result of this survey?

Wang Tiankai: after the Spring Festival this year, the China Textile Industry Federation sent 8 comprehensive research teams to more than 100 enterprises in more than 30 clusters of 7 provinces in China.

The survey shows that the textile and garment industry started smoothly in 2012, but there are still hidden dangers affecting the smooth operation of the industry. Especially, the pressure of some small and micro enterprises and export processing enterprises is larger than in previous years.

Reporter: from the survey, what are the main problems facing the industry? How should we solve them?

Wang Tiankai: first of all, international.

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Therefore, in order to realize the sustainable development of the industry, we must rely more on the pull of the domestic demand market, provide sustained vitality for the development, enhance the competitiveness and risk tolerance of the industry.

With the continuous implementation of various policies to improve people's livelihood and expand domestic demand, and the easing of inflation, domestic demand for textile and clothing will continue to expand.

Secondly, the substantial fluctuation of raw material prices has affected the normal production and market confidence of the upstream and downstream enterprises, and hindered the stable operation of the entire textile and garment industry.

From the survey of the Federation, the response of the enterprises to the cotton problem is relatively strong.

In 2011, domestic cotton prices began to rise and fall. After breaking through the historical highs in March, cotton prices went down all the way.

The sharp fluctuations in cotton prices not only cause production and sales of cotton spinning enterprises to be sluggish, inventories increase and profits decline, but also the negative effects extend to the industrial chain, which affects the confidence of enterprises.

Thirdly, enterprises continue to rise in various production costs, and the pressure on enterprises is increasing.

With the sustained and stable development of the domestic economy, the price of resource type elements such as labor and other factors such as labor force and coal electricity has shown a rigid rising trend. Combined with the comprehensive influence of factors such as bank interest rate increase and RMB appreciation, although the whole industry's production management level and labor efficiency have been constantly raised, most enterprises still can not bear the rise of multiple costs and the pressure is increasing.

This situation once again sounded the alarm to the industry, and the way to occupy the market by cost is unsustainable.

Enterprises should identify their own position, further improve labor productivity, speed up technological pformation and technological innovation; the industry should speed up the cultivation of high-quality talents and innovate the marketing mode; at the same time, we should optimize the product mix and improve the added value of products by means of design, brand and channel, so as to provide a reliable guarantee for the effective occupation of the market.

In addition, the textile and garment industry is a small and medium enterprises accounted for more than 90% of the industry, especially small and micro enterprises living conditions deteriorate.

In this survey, we found that some of the small and medium-sized enterprises in some industrial clusters were in a state of shutdown and semi shutdown, and the production situation was not optimistic.

Although the development of China's textile and garment industry is facing many problems, the market forced mechanism formed by the tight external environment has brought a new round of shuffling to promote industrial pformation and upgrading and structural adjustment.

However, challenges also breed opportunities. Industry development must take account of the situation, further enhance confidence in development, take targeted measures, actively respond to various difficulties, take the initiative to adapt to changes in market demand, continue to give full play to their comparative advantages, increase the contribution rate of science and technology and brand contribution rate, continue to maintain a favorable position in the world economy, and promote the sound and rapid development of the whole industry.

Reporter: this year's national "two sessions" is a very important national conference before the eighteen convening.

So, what issues do you focus on this year's "two sessions"?

Wang Tiankai: after the financial crisis in 2008, the state positioned the textile industry as a traditional pillar industry of our national economy, an important livelihood industry and an obvious industry with international competitive advantages.

These three positions are very accurate, and are made by the state in taking full account of the important strategic position of the textile industry in the future economic development of China. It plays an important role in prospering the market, expanding exports, absorbing employment, increasing the income of farmers, and promoting the development of urbanization.

Now, we need to look at the development of the industry from these three perspectives.

The textile and garment industry is a highly market-oriented industry with fierce competition, but at the same time, more than 90% of the industry is small and medium-sized enterprises. The state must create a good growth environment for small and medium enterprises and even micro enterprises, so that they can achieve fair competition in the context of global economic integration.

This year's national "two sessions", small and micro enterprises financing difficulties is one of my main concerns.

There are many small and medium enterprises in the textile and garment industry, and their financing difficulties and expensive financing exist for a long time.

State commercial banks are unwilling to engage in risky and costly small and micro enterprises loan businesses. Some of these enterprises fail to pay due to loans in development, resulting in the failure of capital chain and bankruptcy of enterprises.

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In 2011, domestic monetary policy tightened, corporate loans became more difficult, and the tight liquidity became the primary risk.

In October last year, the State Council promulgated a series of policies and measures to broaden the financing channels for small and micro enterprises, including commercial banks focusing on increasing credit support to small and micro enterprises under a single household credit of less than 5 million yuan, but the implementation effect is not obvious in the textile industry.

Therefore, the industry should promptly reflect relevant issues to the relevant departments, and create a favorable environment for them to tide over difficulties, pform, upgrade and develop.

However, we should also know that the construction of the system and mechanism for financing SMEs will be a long-term and gradual process.

Reporter: Recently, the state has also attached great importance to supporting small and micro enterprises.

Wang Tiankai: small and micro enterprises are the main channels to provide new jobs. They are the main platform for entrepreneurs to grow up and are important forces in technological innovation.

Small and medium enterprises are not only the main channels of employment in the textile and garment industry, but also promote healthy and stable operation of the whole industry and maintain social harmony and stability.

In terms of Taxation, the state has increased its support for small and micro enterprises, increased the threshold of value-added tax and business tax for small and micro enterprises, and reduced the small and small enterprises by half of the enterprise income tax policy, extending to the end of 2015 and expanding the scope.

Since January 1st this year, the state has carried out pilot projects to deepen the VAT reform in some areas and industries, and gradually changed the current business tax collection to value-added tax.

These measures are good for small and micro enterprises, and the industry will actively observe its effect.

In addition to national policy support, the textile and garment industry itself, in the new round of pformation and upgrading of the adjustment, enterprises should clear their own positioning, the industry will further promote the bigger and stronger independent brand leading enterprises, support small and micro enterprises to do fine, do special.

Small and micro enterprises should actively provide good supporting services for leading enterprises. Under the leadership of leading enterprises, they will overcome difficulties and realize pformation and upgrading of common industries.

Reporter: just now, you mentioned that creating a fair competition environment for enterprises is also one of the key issues you will pay attention to this year's "two sessions".

Wang Tiankai: textile and clothing is one of the industries that first entered the market economy competition. Over the years, it has formed a mature industrial chain, and has a mature industrial army, which has a strong adaptability to the competition of the market economy.

But in reality, sometimes the environment in which enterprises compete in market is not very fair.

At present, China's cotton price mechanism has not yet been integrated with the international market, and there are quota restrictions on imported cotton. The new import management system can not effectively regulate domestic processes with international market resources, and it is difficult to balance the domestic and foreign cotton prices, and lack effective restraint system.

Therefore, this year's "two sessions", I will focus on the issue of cotton from the perspective of external fair competition environment, actively give advice to the central government, timely reflect the relevant situation, in order to get more attention and support.