Wang Tiankai: Solving The New Normal Of Sheep'S Year Textiles

Wang Tiankai, President of China Textile Industry Federation

At the beginning of the year of the sheep, many textile people could not be "jubilant".

This is because in the past 2014, the new normal of the slowdown in industrial development has brought great pressure to enterprises, and some inflexion points in the textile economic operation are also attracting attention.

How to accurately judge the international and domestic economic environment of the textile industry, predict the economic trend of the industry in the new year and grasp the key points of industrial pformation and development? In order to find out the answer to the problem, the reporter recently interviewed the president of the China Textile Industry Federation.

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Dialectical existence under the new normal

Mode innovation is imminent.

Reporter: from the data of textile economic operation in 2014, China

There are some new changes, for example, the main economic growth indicators of Enterprises above Designated Size have been fully reduced to single digit growth; for example, textile and clothing import and export appeared in the end of 2014, and the negative growth in the first half of 2015.

What has happened in China's textile industry?

Wang Tiankai: China's textile industry has entered a new normal growth rate slowdown.

As for the main characteristics of this new normal, I think it can be summed up in three sentences: first, the growth rate is slowing down; the two is the pressure of development and the acceleration of differentiation; the three is the urgency of power pformation and the key innovation.

Specifically speaking, first, the growth rate will slow down and slow down.

The textile industry as a consumer goods industry is closely related to the development of the national macro-economy. As China's economic growth slows down, it will eventually affect the demand growth of the industry.

In the new normal, the textile industry has entered a medium speed growth from high speed growth. From last year, the main economic growth indicators of Enterprises above Designated Size will be fully expanded from two digit growth to single digit growth, which confirms this point.

But while growth is slowing down, we should also note that slow progress and progress.

First, industrial textiles still maintain a good growth momentum.

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Driven by the strong demand, the main economic growth indicators of industrial textiles in 2014 maintained a two digit growth. Therefore, in the new normal, industrial textiles will still maintain rapid growth.

The two is the acceleration of industrial restructuring.

Under the new normal, the adjustment of industrial structure, regional structure, enterprise organizational structure and product structure is accelerating.

Second, the pressure of development is increasing and differentiation is accelerating.

Under the new normal, the pressure on the overall operation and development of the industry has increased. Enterprises, regardless of size, generally feel the difficulty of survival is increasing.

The reasons for this include the relative weakening of demand growth, the aggravation of resource and environment constraints, the rising cost of essential elements, the acceleration of terminal demand with individualization and differentiation as the main trend, and the micro market factors such as stage capacity and structural surplus of some industries.

The most important reason is that in the new normal, the original production mode is difficult to continue, and the new mode is still in the process of exploration and formation.

Therefore, some advantageous enterprises have difficulty in maintaining the growth of their business performance, while quite a few small and micro enterprises will face the pressure of survival.

Therefore, under the new normal, the survival of the fittest will intensify, and the differentiation of enterprises will also accelerate.

The three is the urgency of power pformation and the key innovation.

Under the new normal, the core of the development of the industry is to promote pformation and upgrading, change the dependence on investment driven and factor driven, and turn to rely on technology, brand, management, system, mechanism and business mode innovation to promote the development of the industry.

Reporter: innovation driven for many years, but the textile industry still has the problem of insufficient original technology and original design ability.

In the textile industry with a high degree of marketization, how should we continue to promote basic research?

Wang Tiankai: it should be said that for technological innovation, textile enterprises have attached great importance to their subjective understanding, and many enterprises have carried out some practice through cooperation with universities and research institutes.

But for those cross industry, cross domain and basic research, they often suffer from no strength and can not complete them.

In recent years, many industrial technology alliances have sprung up in the textile industry, which is also an exploration around solving this problem.

The industry is actuating innovation driven, technology is the cornerstone, market is the source, talent is the fundamental, system and mechanism is the key.

First of all, we should make breakthroughs in key technologies, key equipment and key products, such as functional, differentiated chemical simulation fibers, intelligent and digital device development and application technology, high-end industrial textiles, energy saving and emission reduction technologies.

Secondly, focusing on the terminal market, we should speed up product mix adjustment, promote enterprise management innovation, system and mechanism innovation, production and business mode innovation, aiming at differentiated and personalized consumption demand and changing consumption patterns and consumer demand, and promote the pformation from production type to production service enterprise.

Furthermore, we should further accelerate the allocation of resources and actively promote regional structural adjustment in accordance with the principle of decisive role of market allocation of resources, including creating new international advantages and further optimizing the allocation of pnational resources.

To speed up the pace of innovation, we need to create a good environment at the national level.

We should solve some important problems in the chain of textile industry according to the principle of decisive role of market allocation of resources.

For example, we should further speed up reform in the allocation of cotton resources, and speed up the liberalization of cotton import quota control while introducing a mature policy to protect farmers' interests.

Just imagine, if there is a huge cotton price at home and abroad, if we can make profits by pouring cotton, then which other cotton textile enterprises can be reassured and refined?

Lock global vision

Creating new international advantages

Reporter: at present, the global economy is also showing a new normal.

Under such circumstances, how should China's textile industry create new international advantages? What role will China's textile industry play in the future international competition and cooperation?

Wang Tiankai: at present, the global economy has also entered a new normal in the process of slow recovery, and all countries are seeking reform and adjustment.

For example, the "Reindustrialization" and "revitalization of manufacturing" in the United States, Germany's "industrial 4 strategy", emerging economies and resource countries, including developing countries are also changing the way of development and adjusting the industrial structure. These changes and adjustments will have an impact on the global textile industry. Therefore, strengthening the integration and integration among countries is an important trend in the global textile industry's common development.

In 2014, I made a keynote speech at the annual meeting of the International Federation of textile manufacturers (hereinafter referred to as the "International Textile Federation"), advocating that the global textile industry is facing common opportunities and responsibilities.

Opportunities, first, the new pattern of the international market brings new market opportunities to the global textile industry.

At present, the diversification of international textile and garment market is becoming increasingly prominent. The demand for industrial textiles in clothing, home textiles and related industries will continue to increase in the future, and emerging markets, including China, will become the main driving force for growth.

The two is the new trend of technological change to increase momentum for deepening international cooperation in textile industry.

This new trend of technological change will promote the deep integration of information network technology and manufacturing industry, and provide opportunities for textile industry chain, supply chain to strengthen resource integration and innovate marketing.

Three, the new international division of labor and distribution system will promote the coordinated development of the global textile industry.

Including the developed countries to revitalize the manufacturing industry, the industrial chain's high-end and high value-added links have been reinvigorate. The emerging economies are accelerating the pfer of textile manufacturing industry and accelerating their structural adjustment, and regional free trade relations affect the flow of investment in the textile industry.

The adjustment of division of labor will aggravate international industrial competition to a certain extent, but resource integration, division of labor and cooperation and coordinated development are still the main trend.

In terms of responsibility, the most important thing is the responsibility of global climate and environment to strengthen joint action of textile.

Efforts should be made to break through the key technologies, realize the whole process of low carbon, clean processing and manufacture, enhance the development concept, and realize the low-carbon and green development of the whole life cycle.

The textile industry has a long chain from fiber to end products. With the deep integration of the global textile industry chain, we must have a unified understanding of all aspects of the industrial chain. From this perspective, low carbon and green are both the common responsibility of the global textile industry and the fundamental interest link for the global textile industry to achieve win-win cooperation.

Against this background, we can see that China's textile industry has seen that since the beginning of reform and opening up, especially after its accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001, China has built a more complete and efficient textile industry chain with competitive advantages in the world through continuous advanced investment. China's textile industry occupies an indispensable position in the world textile and apparel supply chain system through the division of labor and scale effect of the highly competitive industrial clusters.

At the same time, the rapid growth of China's domestic market has continued to add a rare purchasing power to the world's textile machinery, raw materials, intermediate products and end products.

Over the past decades, a number of backbone enterprises have emerged in China's textile industry, making continuous progress and breakthroughs in manufacturing efficiency, operational efficiency, R & D, brand influence, pnational layout and profitability.

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At present, the global textile industry is undergoing a historic reshaping and pformation at the two levels of supply chain and purchasing power.

As the largest producer, exporter and consumer of textiles and clothing in the world, China will play a positive role in the process of restructuring and upgrading its global textile supply chain and purchasing power.

China's textile industry will actively promote enterprises to "go global" to deploy pnational resources.

At the same time, China's textile industry actively supports multilateral and bilateral FTA on the global scale, sticks to the position of opening up for development, and welcomes the textile industry of all countries in the world to fully explore China's rapidly growing domestic market potential and cooperation opportunities.

China's textile industry will actively integrate with the rest of the world in the process of pnational distribution, and create national wealth for all countries. At the same time, China's textile industry will continue to contribute to improving the global consumer's living standard.

Reporter: in 2014, you became the first chairman of the international spinning Federation from China.

What do you think is the significance of China's textile industry to better integrate into the world?

Wang Tiankai: 2014 was the 110th anniversary of the International Textile Federation. The China Textile Industry Federation joined the International Federation of textile industry in 2009.

In the face of over 100 years of history, including international organizations and enterprises, including five continents and nearly 30 countries and regions, whether China joins it, or it sincerely welcomes China's accession, it is China's textile industry in the international textile industry.