Sun Ruizhe: Pressure On Garment Industry Must Be Solved By Science And Technology

< p > < strong > international and domestic market demand urgently needs to be excavated < /strong > /p >

< p > Sun Ruizhe Sun Ruizhe, vice chairman of China Textile Industry Federation and chairman of China Textile Engineering Society, pointed out that China's textile industry first faced the challenge of market demand for sustainable development.

From the perspective of international demand, last year's textiles "a href=" http://news.sjfzxm.com/news/list.aspx "Classid=101112107105" > clothing export < /a > increased by 3.32%, eliminating the worry of negative growth in the industry.

It is worth noting that in the 1~8 months of this year, China's textile and garment exports maintained an increase of more than 10%, but the share of the three major traditional export markets in the US, EU and Japan declined to varying degrees.

Some neighboring countries such as Kampuchea and Vietnam have entered these markets quickly through the adjustment of industrial structure and the comparative advantage of cost. They occupy the share of our country.

It is gratifying to note that China's textile and garment exports have developed in other markets. This change has forced the export of Chinese textile and clothing to form a forced mechanism. It is urgent to develop new markets while stabilizing the traditional main market share.

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< p > expanding domestic demand market is the main line of China's economic development.

Sun Ruizhe put forward a number of important phenomena that need urgent attention: first, the growth rate of clothing and clothing retail sales is lower than that of social consumer goods; the two is the surge of online shopping. In 2012, the total sales volume of the whole society exceeded 13000 billion yuan, of which the textile and clothing category exceeded 300 billion yuan, accounting for 24.45% of all online sales. In the future, this trend will continue to expand. Three, the discretionary income gap between urban and rural residents is widening. In 1980, the difference between the average per capita clothing expenditure of urban residents and rural residents is 3.05 times, and the gap widened to 4.6 times in 2012, which is both an opportunity and a challenge for the textile industry.

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< p > < strong > the carrying capacity of resources and environment needs to be improved < /strong > < /p >.

< p > in terms of resources, < a href= "http://news.sjfzxm.com/news/list.aspx Classid=101112107107" > cotton problem < /a > stir the whole industry.

In Sun Ruizhe's view, there are policy effects, but also reflects the dependence of industrial development on upstream resources.

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< p > "cotton problem is already serious. Another problem that may be exposed in the future will be more serious and jeopardize industrial safety."

Sun Ruizhe explained that the total production of polyester in China exceeded 30 million tons last year, accounting for 67% of the total fiber processing in the country, accounting for 80% of the total output of chemical fiber.

Obviously, once there are problems in polyester production, the damage will be greater than cotton.

The main raw material of polyester production is PX. In 2012, the PX capacity of our country was only 7 million 750 thousand tons, and the dependence on foreign trade reached 45%, which will exceed 50% this year.

By 2015, China's demand for PX will reach 22 million tons. If the pattern remains unchanged, the lifeblood of China's polyester industry will be grasped in the hands of others, which is bound to cause a stronger impact on the industry than cotton.

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< p > in the environment, the latest statistics show that the textile industry wastewater discharge and chemical oxygen demand (COD) emissions have ranked third in the country, causing great pressure on the textile industry. In 2011, the textile industry chemical oxygen demand emissions increased by 1.83% compared to 2010.

As the number of acquisition expanded, the number of enterprises increased, resulting in a decline in unit value added, but the absolute value increased year by year, emission reduction task is more severe and urgent.

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< p > how should industry enterprises cope with the challenges of resources and environment? Sun Ruizhe said that many textile enterprises dedicated to "going out" provided a successful example for the industry.

One is to seek low cost areas such as Kampuchea, Bangladesh and Vietnam in the case of rising factor costs; the other is to seek resources, such as the acquisition of 950 square kilometres of land by the Ruyi group in Australia for cotton cultivation, and the acquisition of pulp enterprises in Canada by the group.

He stressed that the maintenance of industrial safety through the upward extension of the industrial chain has become an urgent task.

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< p > < strong > maintaining policy stability is crucial. < /strong > < /p >

< p > textile industry is an industry with obvious characteristics of the market economy. From capital composition, more than 96% are private and overseas capital.

As an industry that was earlier incorporated into the market mechanism, the policy effect of the textile industry has also been fully reflected. It is very important to maintain policy stability.

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< p > look at the characteristics of the whole industry. China's textile industry has a complete industrial chain from fiber production, textile processing to clothing products. "How to deal with fast fashion" has become a big challenge.

How to maintain the healthy, stable and orderly operation of the long industrial chain? Sun Ruizhe stressed that we should pay attention to the integrated innovation and interaction of the whole industry chain, and the orientation of the terminal market.

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< p > at the same time, the industry development is also facing some long-standing problems, such as < a href= "http://news.sjfzxm.com/news/list.aspx Classid=101112107108" > demographic dividend < /a > disappear.

Sun Ruizhe added that China's competitiveness depends on the industrial efficiency brought by technological progress over the years. It is not optimistic that China's population aged over 60 will exceed 200 million this year, and will surpass 300 million by 2025. It will become an aging country in the world, and labor resources will change from the original supply to the limited supply.

At the same time, the new generation of rural labor force is not willing to enter the manufacturing industry, which makes it an urgent topic how to promote and innovate the sustainable development mechanism through labor productivity promotion and innovation.

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In the face of numerous challenges and pressures, how can the industry break through and continue the path of sustainable development? There are many answers, but p can not be separated from technological innovation.

Sun Ruizhe said that since 2011, the China Textile Engineering Society has made efforts to create an annual academic conference on textiles and launched academic leaders. Its purpose is to promote innovation in the industry and make technological innovation become a real driving force in the industry.

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