China's Textile Industry Embarked On The Path Of Transformation And Upgrading From "Cost Fixing And Price Fixing"

"1 billion pairs of socks for a plane". This was once about China. textile industry The most thought-provoking metaphor. After 10 years of rapid growth, the era of "low cost and high growth" of Chinese textile industry is passing away.

Go all over the world Economic crisis After the unfavorable factors such as the impact of trade friction and the rising cost, China's textile industry is embarking on the path of structural adjustment and transformation and upgrading from "cost fixing and price fixing". It is hard to continue to earn meager profits by making cheap processing.

In the view of Wang Tiankai, President of China Textile Industry Federation, the first 10 years of this century can be described as the best quality and fastest development of China's textile industry since the founding of new China, and the whole industry has made considerable achievements in terms of scale efficiency growth and industrial structure optimization.

In 2000, during the implementation period of the "fifteen" plan, there were 19 thousand and 400 enterprises above Designated Size in China's textile industry, and the total output value of 889 billion 452 million yuan was created. In the 10 years since 2002, the development of China's textile industry is changing rapidly. With the further consolidation of the status of the world's textile power, it continues to advance towards the goal of textile power.

In 2003, China produced 11 million 810 thousand tons of chemical fiber, 9 million 840 thousand tons of yarn and 35 billion 400 million meters of cloth. By the end of 11th Five-Year, in 2010, China's chemical fiber production was 2.6 times the output of 2003, and the yarn production was 2.8 times that of its output, and its output was 2.3 times that of 2003. In 2010, China's textile industry above designated size enterprises had developed to 54 thousand and 600 households and created a total output value of 4 trillion and 761 billion 280 million yuan. So far, China's chemical fiber, yarn, cloth, silk, clothing and other output ranks first in the world, and is the world's largest producer of textiles and clothing.

Needless to say, the international market has always been an important factor in promoting the development of China's textile industry. At present, about 25% of the sales value of enterprises in China's textile industry above scale is realized in the international market. In 2003, China's textile and clothing exports totaled 80 billion 500 million US dollars, and by 2011, the total export volume of China's textile and clothing has increased 2.2 times to 254 billion 100 million US dollars. China's textile and apparel industry is also playing a leading role in the international market.

At the same time, with the rapid development of China's economy and the gradual increase of residents' income level, the demand for textile and clothing consumption of Chinese residents has begun to increase rapidly. From 2005 to 2010, China's per capita consumption of clothing and clothing increased by an average of 15% annually. In recent years, the domestic market of China's textile industry has become the main driving force for the development of China's textile industry. Especially after the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2008, the domestic market plays a vital role in stabilizing China's textile industry. In 2003, the proportion of domestic sales of China's textile industry was about 67%, and by June 2012, the proportion of domestic sales of China's textile industry has increased to 84%.

Wang Tiankai believes that the development of China's textile industry in the past 10 years has benefited from a better development environment at home and abroad: China's national economy has achieved rapid development and the level of opening up has been increasing. The international market continued to flourish before the outbreak of the financial crisis, especially the global textile and garment distribution officially abolished in 2005, which provided good opportunities for China's textile industry.

Although entering the "12th Five-Year", the overall external environment of China's textile industry has become increasingly complex. The major developed economies have entered a period of adjustment after the financial crisis, but China's textile industry has maintained steady development. In 2011, China's textile enterprises above Designated Size created a total output value of 5 trillion and 478 billion 650 million yuan.

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By 2012, domestic and international market demand gradually slowed down, and China's textile industry suffered from the global economic growth in the post crisis era. The production rate of textile industry showed a downward trend. However, in the first half of this year, China's textile industry still maintained a two digit growth in production and marketing scale. In June 2012, China's textile industry above Designated Size Enterprises totaled 2 trillion and 664 billion 690 million yuan of gross industrial output value, an increase of 11% over the same period last year.

But at the same time, we should also see that although the scale of production and marketing of China's textile industry is still growing, its growth rate has dropped sharply compared with the same period last year. The "three carriages" of the export market, domestic demand market and industry investment that drive the development of the industry are all unsatisfactory.

　　 Wang Tian Kai The next 10 years will be a critical period for China to move from a big textile country to a strong textile country. He believes that due to the complexity of the follow-up impact of the international financial crisis in 2008, the external environment of China's textile industry will be complex and changeable throughout the "12th Five-Year" period, which makes the industry face unprecedented challenges. To some extent, the severity of the external situation has also formed a forced mechanism to speed up the adjustment and upgrading process of China's textile industry.

So far, the "12th Five-Year" textile industry development plan and the "outline of building a textile power" have clearly defined the development goals for the next 5 to 10 years of development of China's textile industry -- adhering to transformation and upgrading, strengthening independent innovation, brand building, personnel training and energy conservation and emission reduction, laying the foundation for textile power.

Industry experts stressed that the "12th Five-Year" period is an important opportunity for China's textile industry to accelerate and optimize its development. It is also an arduous task for tackling difficulties.