The Way To Develop Textile And Garment Industry: Adjusting Export Market And Strengthening Independent Innovation

China has been affected by the global economic weakness this year.

Industrial exports have seen zero growth or negative growth, and the textile industry is facing multiple difficulties both inside and outside.

Some experts pointed out that with the downward pressure on domestic economic growth, the textile industry basically bid farewell to the environment of rapid growth.

Insiders and experts suggest that on the one hand, the export market and structure can be adjusted to adapt to external changes. On the other hand, we must strengthen independent innovation and promote brand upgrading, improve labor productivity and reduce labor costs.

Increase in trade barriers and anti-dumping investigations in Europe and America

China Textile Industry Federation (hereinafter referred to as "China Textile union") issued a report by the statistical center that China's textiles in the first half of this year

Products are still the main target of Global trade protection, and European and American countries have introduced new technical barriers to trade, which seriously affects the export of Chinese textile and clothing products.

The report of the China Textile Federation said that since the beginning of this year, the US government has continuously introduced a number of trade protection measures, including the establishment of an inter departmental trade enforcement center, and will also enforce the third party testing and certification of children's products, and the lead content of children's products exported to the United States will be limited to new standards. Mexico has also revised the labeling standards for textiles and clothing; the EU's new regulations on textile labels have been formally implemented in May.

The introduction of these standards and regulations has made the export of Chinese textile and clothing products face greater cost pressures and trade risks.

In the first half of this year, a total of 924 notifications issued by the EU fast food notification system were 54% higher than the same period last year.

Among them, there were 589 reports on China, accounting for 63.74% of the total number of global notifications, an increase of 90.61% over the same period last year. 122 notifications of textiles and clothing products imported from China accounted for 20.71% of the total number of China's notifications, representing a 121.82% increase over the same period last year.

According to the analysis, the technical barriers to trade such as standard certification and trade defense measures have been issued continuously. The reason is that with the intensification of the European debt crisis, the EU has continuously strengthened the protection of textile and garment enterprises in the region.

Statistics show that from February to June this year, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission issued 58 recall reports on imported products, of which 7 were for textiles imported from China. 5

Product bulletin increased by nearly two times compared with the same period last year.

This shows that the US's attention to Chinese textile and apparel products is still high.

The report of the China Textile Federation predicts that the international trade environment facing the export of Chinese textile and clothing products will be more intense in the second half of this year, and the international trade frictions may continue to intensify.

Xia Lingmin, vice chairman of the China Textile Association, held a press conference on the 500 competitiveness of China's textile and garment enterprises in Zhengzhou on 10 July. The export of China's textile and garment industry from 1 to July this year was almost zero growth compared with the same period last year. It was rare in recent years, and negative growth occurred in August. Before that, only 2009 was affected by the financial crisis, which was 9.5% lower than that in 2008, while 2010 and 2011 maintained 10 to 20 percentage points growth.

Xia Ling min analysis thinks that the pressure of domestic economic downturn is increasing, and the growth of domestic demand market has begun to slow down. Coupled with the obvious fluctuation of textile raw material prices, the domestic and foreign cotton price inversion problems are highlighted. The cost of labor and energy continues to rise, the efficiency of enterprises has declined, the number of deficit enterprises has increased, and the growth rate of investment has dropped significantly. Many textile enterprises lack confidence and are confused about the future.

Wang Tiankai, President of China Textile Union, said that with the change of the international political and economic environment, the world and China's economy have entered a period of deep adjustment and pformation. China's textile industry basically bid farewell to the environment of rapid growth.

The evaluation data released by China's textile and garment enterprises in the top 500 competitiveness show that some competitive advantage enterprises also encountered difficulties and challenges. For example, the average profit margin of the enterprises entering the 500 strong enterprises is lower than that of the last one. At the same time, the R & D investment and total assets contribution index of these enterprises in 2011 also declined.

On the other hand, the continuous expansion of domestic and foreign cotton prices caused by the existing cotton management system has made Chinese textile enterprises, especially cotton spinning enterprises, more exposed to business pressures.

The industry should adjust its structure and strengthen its independent innovation.

Xia Lingmin believes that although China's textile and garment industry is facing tremendous growth pressure, there are still many breakthroughs. On the one hand, China's textile industry is carrying out rapid industrial pfer and upgrading. On the other hand, not all foreign markets are shrinking. For example, exports to Africa and ASEAN have maintained more than 15% growth this year.

Zhouzhuang economics professor of Tianjin University of Technology believes that from the perspective of comprehensive strength, China has reached a better level in the textile and apparel industry chain, industry scale and production supporting capabilities, and the textile industry has a higher degree of marketization and internationalization.

The open market has promoted the upgrading of China's textile technology, the enhancement of design capabilities, the more smooth sales channels and the continuous improvement of the industrial environment.

Facing the difficulties of China's textile and garment industry, Wang Tiankai believes that Chinese enterprises should strengthen independent innovation and promote brand promotion.

He said that in today's era where products are not scarce, we must truly break through the pformation barriers from product economy to service economy, establish business models that suit their long-term development and adapt to changing market needs, so as to promote the sustainable development of enterprises. Textile enterprises should take the lead in these areas.

Zhouzhuang believes that textile enterprises should build an alliance of industrial technology innovation, which is a loose network organization formed by all parties in the industry to achieve common strategic innovation goals through various long-term contractual arrangements, equity arrangements and mutual tacit agreement.

Experts pointed out that in recent years, labor costs continue to increase, enterprises should pform technology and industrial pfer to raise the level of technology, in order to reduce labor costs.

According to the data from the China Textile Corporation, 143 enterprises in the top 500 enterprises have been in the market for the five consecutive year since 2007. Compared with the average of 7127 people in 2007, these enterprises have been reduced to 5433 in 2011. The efficiency and production of these enterprises have kept increasing at the same time, and the growth rate of R & D revenue, output value of new products and labor productivity are all higher than the growth rate of production.

These data reflect that these enterprises have achieved good results in increasing investment in science and technology, enhancing the development of new products and improving labour productivity.