The Textile Industry Is Not As Bad As We Imagine.

Recently, the news of a "collapse of the textile industry" and "170 million people coming home early for the new year" attracted a lot of attention.

The textile industry has always been regarded as the "fixed sea god needle" for stabilizing employment in China.

In some laymen's eyes, this is a low tech industry, which is totally integrated with manpower. The downfall of the economy is inevitable, but the fact does not seem to be the case.

Recently, Professor Jiang Jianming, executive vice director of the China Textile Engineering Society, told reporters that the rumors on the Internet were too exaggerated.

Although the enterprises generally feel the pressure is greater, a number of textile industry indicators run smoothly, and the growth rate ranks the top in the national industrial sector.

In recent years, the output value of industrial textiles with high technology content has been increasing at an annual rate of two digits in recent years.

Behind the difference between "numbers" and "feelings" may be the truth: in the pformation and upgrading, the survival of the fittest and the shuffling of cards are intensified.

China has the most complete textile industry chain in the world.

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On the China Science and technology forum for upgrading new technology integration, organizers suggested that a group of WeChat should be built face to face to facilitate communication after the meeting. In less than a minute, the group will reach a maximum of 100 people.

The group of experts, scholars and business owners from the national textile industry are anxious to achieve a common goal: upgrading the technological level of the industry.

Jiang Jianming said that China has the most complete textile industry chain in the world, from raw materials to fiber and dyestuffs, and has the best equipment and technology in the world.

From the perspective of talent cultivation, 375 of the more than 2000 universities in the country have clothing design major, and more than 80 universities have textile engineering undergraduate major. Every year, a large number of specialized talents are trained, and technical personnel have higher education guarantee.

This is the advantage that other countries can't surpass in the short term.

Jiang Jianming himself was also working in a university. He served as vice president of Donghua University. He is an expert in the field of high performance fiber and functional polymer synthesis.

It is understood that at present, there are more than 20 enterprises in China's textile industry, of which more than 90% are private enterprises.

As China's economy has entered a new normal, the entire manufacturing sector has slowed down, and the textile industry has also been affected.

As Gao Yong, vice president and Secretary General of the China Textile Industry Federation, said, some small and medium-sized enterprises, such as the small cotton mill, the small chemical fiber factory and the small knitting factory, are concerned about the stop phenomenon.

Large enterprises also encountered similar situations, but did not cause industry and social fluctuations.

From the perspective of structural adjustment, this is a normal phenomenon.

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Artificial kidney, artificial blood vessel and auto parts can be textiles.

Not long ago, a private textile enterprise in China took the roof construction project of Seoul National Stadium in South Korea, and made use of special materials made of fiber products. It belongs to the ranks of industrial textiles.

"Industrial high tech textiles are now growing by two digits every year," Jiang Jianming said. This new field has become a new growth point in the textile industry.

What is industrial textiles? It is different from the ordinary clothing and household textiles, but refers to specially designed and engineered fabrics, which have the characteristics of high technology content, high added value of products, high labor productivity and wide industrial penetration.

Jiang Jianming's detailed introduction changed reporters.

The original impression.

In the medical field, efficient barrier and protective clothing are textiles, artificial kidney, artificial blood vessels and even fiber products.

High temperature microfiber filter bags used in environmental engineering are also textiles.

It is widely used in high speed iron, expressway, airport, landfill, South to North Water Transfer and so on.

The tunnel tunnel support system in coal mines used to use metal mesh, and now widely used multi axial warp knitted fabric.

The costumes of astronauts, the semi steel solar panels of Tiangong-1 are all textiles.

In the development of vehicle lightweight, a large number of automotive components are also fiber products.

Although the proportion of China's industrial textiles in textile industry has increased to about 25%, there is still much room for development compared with developed countries.

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Joint innovation and collaborative pformation may be the way forward.

Opening the website of the China Textile Engineering Society, we can see the latest research progress in the textile industry on the front page: American researchers use conductive carbon fiber to create electronic band aids; the magic Hoodie can completely relax the people wearing it after charging.

"We are also guiding enterprises to pform to some more scientific and technological directions.

For example, smart wearable clothing and fabrics.

This is definitely the direction of future development.

Bai Meng, deputy director of science and Technology Development Department of China Textile Engineering Society, said.

But he admitted that in the process of communication with the business owners, most enterprises hope to make immediate money making projects, and invest less in research and development.

China Textile Engineering Society hopes to use its capabilities to promote technological progress in the whole industry.

"The textile industry is a new technology application industry. We are planning to set up a large consortium to integrate all the fields of composite materials, electronics, machinery, aerospace and other fields to serve the technical needs of textile pformation and upgrading.

Upstream and downstream cross regional, cross regional, joint innovation, collaborative pformation may be our future direction.

Bai Meng said.

In the perennial research, Bai Meng can always hear some good news: the Fujian family has made a sports shoe upper, and the order has been discharged until 2017.

A traditional spinning enterprise has been pformed into a bamboo fiber mask since 2010, and 80% of its profits now come from the mask.

"The boss of a knitting enterprise heard that we could provide new technology to reduce the cost of sewage discharge, and his eyes were straight."

Bai Meng said that enterprises now realize that only pformation and upgrading can survive.

Intelligence and automation enter the textile industry.

The technology and equipment of digital automatic dyeing of cheese yarn was awarded the first prize of national science and technology progress in January this year, and automation of chemical batching, dyeing, taking out and putting on packaging line was realized.

"10 thousand spindles originally need 700 people. After automation, 10 thousand spindles need only 17 people, and maintenance of machinery and equipment can be done.

Under such circumstances, the high cost of backward production will inevitably be eliminated.

Jiang Jianming said.

Wang Tiankai, President of the China Federation of textile industry, described the situation as follows: the number is acceptable, and the feeling is not good.

At this point, there are always people asking: is this the best time or the worst? Wang Tiankai's answer is: for industrial upgrading, the tight era is a good era.

It is worth noting that the developed countries did not quit.

Instead, it stands at the top end of the global textile and garment industry value chain division of labor.

According to Sun Ruizhe, vice president of China Textile Industry Federation, China ranked first in global textile and clothing trade last year, accounting for 37% of Global trade, but second and third are Italy and Germany, not Southeast Asian countries that are undertaking industrial pfer.

Perhaps this is the direction of China's textile industry development.