Xia Lingmin, Vice President Of China Textile Industry: Transformation Of Industrial Clusters Under New Supply

With the release of the Central Committee's proposal for the formulation of the 13th Five-Year plan for national economic and social development, the textile industry "13th Five-Year" development plan has also become the focus of attention of the industry.

Not long ago, the China Textile Industry Federation put forward a new expression of industrial positioning in the "textile industry" 13th Five-Year "development plan": the textile industry is China's traditional pillar industries, important livelihood industries, and industries that create new advantages of internationalization. It is a combination of technology and fashion, clothing consumption and industrial use. It plays an important role in beautifying people's lives, promoting related industries, stimulating domestic demand growth, building ecological civilization, enhancing cultural self-confidence and promoting social harmony.

Industrial cluster is an important part of the development of textile industry.

How will the positioning of the textile industry cluster be adjusted during the "13th Five-Year" period? Where is the focus of future work? For this reason, the reporter interviewed Xia Lingmin, vice chairman of the China Textile Industry Federation and deputy director of the industrial cluster Working Committee.

The start is good, and the future needs to be precise.

During the "12th Five-Year" period, although the industry was faced with adverse factors and downward pressure such as slow growth in demand, intensified international competition, rising comprehensive costs, and deepening export decline, the industry, after years of market baptism, had a strong ability to resist risks and remained dynamic throughout the whole industry.

As we all know, the textile "13th Five-Year" period is the goal of "building a strong textile nation".

In the face of the complex external situation, the growth rate of China's industrial added value is 5.8% in the first quarter of this year, while the growth rate of China's textile industry is 6.7%.

Among them, the main business revenue was 1 trillion and 552 billion 409 million yuan, an increase of 5.1% over the same period, with a total profit of 76 billion 893 million yuan, an increase of 6.48% over the same period last year; the profit margin was 4.95%, an increase of 0.07 percentage points over the same period last year.

This data also shows that the profitability of the industry has been improved, and the quality of operation has been further improved.

It is worth noting that the first quarter of our country

The price dropped by 4.67%, the export volume decreased by 0.56%, and the textile exports amounted to US $24 billion 689 million, down 2.32% compared with the same period last year. Clothing exports amounted to US $33 billion 546 million, down 7.22% from the same period last year.

In 1~3 months, the retail sales of clothing shoes and hats and needle textiles increased by 7.2% over the same period last year. The growth rate dropped by 1.5 percentage points over the previous year, which is lower than the growth rate of retail sales of social consumer goods.

Among them, the retail sales of apparel products nationwide increased by 16% over the same period last year, while e-commerce channels maintained a relatively fast growth trend.

Overall, domestic demand and growth in China's textile and garment market have been stable, and the decline in exports has continued to narrow. The industry still presents a steady development trend.

It is foreseeable that as the country accelerates the structural reform of supply side, China's macro-economy will continue to maintain its growth momentum within a reasonable range under the impetus of the growth engine of "three down, one down and one subsidy", "mass entrepreneurship, innovation of all" and "made in China 2025".

At the same time, it provides a good external environment for the development of textile and garment industry.

Innovation and development throughout the industry

Textile industry cluster is

The important support of development is the important organization form of China's textile industry's socialization production mode, and it has become an important foundation of industrial structure adjustment, pformation and upgrading at present.

The basic development ideas of the textile industry in 13th Five-Year are: adhere to the principles of market orientation, innovation drive, structural optimization and green development, actively adapt to and lead the new normal development of the economy, take advantage of the good industrial foundation of the textile industry, accelerate the pace of structural adjustment and industrial upgrading, strive to improve the quality and efficiency of development, create the new textile advantages of "Internet +" era and internationalized development, and become the world textile power with continuous enhancement of technology, brand, sustainable development and talent strength.

During the "13th Five-Year" period, the development environment at home and abroad will undoubtedly become more complicated.

The new round of technological revolution and industrial pformation is ready to go ahead. The international industrial structure is further readjust, and the economic development prospects are broad. However, the upgrading of quality and efficiency and pformation and upgrading are more urgent.

China's textile industry has a strategic opportunity to build a strong textile country, but also faces severe challenges.

In the past, the rapid development of textile industry cluster was due to the creation and exertion of many comparative advantages in the cluster area, which made achievements in the cluster area.

In the current situation, although some comparative advantages, such as low wage costs, no longer exist, there are still many advantages that continue to support the development of cluster economy, such as the full support of the local Party committee and government in policy measures, the unique specialized production, the matching of upstream and downstream industries, the mutual promotion of industry and professional market, the rapid dissemination of professional information in the region, and the gradual improvement of public services.

Industrial clusters should further consolidate their original advantages and use innovative ideas to bring the value of their original advantages to the extreme.

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At present, a new round of technological and industrial changes has provided significant opportunities for the innovation and development of textile industrial clusters. The upgrading of consumption structure has provided new space for upgrading textile industrial clusters.

In the wake of the international economic situation and the decisive battle period to build a strong textile nation during the "13th Five-Year" period, the supply side reform of the textile industry is trying to alleviate the contradiction between supply and demand in the market. The strategy of "three products" for increasing variety, quality and brand is gradually becoming the main way to adjust the supply side of the textile industry.

In addition, how to integrate big data and fashion elements and develop new international and domestic markets has become an important part of opening up a new pattern of textile industrial clusters.

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Under the wave of "textile supply chain", textile supply chain should actively adapt to the Internet era, strengthen the integration of the two technologies, promote the digitalization and intellectualization of textile manufacturing, build green manufacturing system, improve the level of green development, break the original operation mode and traditional business operation, and accelerate the pformation of textile industrial clusters in order to achieve substantive breakthroughs.

New development of multi-dimensional support cluster

For the steady development of clusters, many efforts have been made in various clusters.

Xia pointed out that the pformation and upgrading of clusters, the promotion of regional brands, the improvement of public service platforms, the rational use of talents and the cooperation among clusters are still the most important priorities for the development of textile industry clusters under the new normal.

Faced with the current situation, many clusters are speeding up the pformation and upgrading step by step with clear thinking and decisive measures. Improving industrial chain matching and collaborative innovation as an important measure to improve industrial competitiveness in the cluster area.

The China Federation of textile industry is summarizing the new ideas and practices of pformation and upgrading in various regions, and promotes the experience to the textile industrial cluster areas, so as to prompt the development of industrial clusters and clarify the goals, paths and specific measures for the future efforts of textile industry in various regions.

The cluster itself is a regional brand. Creating a widely recognized regional brand is a good way to develop the cluster economy. The first beneficiary is the small and medium-sized enterprises in the cluster.

While strengthening the regional brand image, it is also a strong support for the regional brand to continue to do a good job in building the enterprise's own brand.

At present, the industrial cluster area has deeply felt the important role of building public service platform to cluster development.

Therefore, all regions have invested funds, manpower and material resources from the actual situation to increase the construction of public service platform.

With the development of the situation and the actual needs of enterprises, the content of public service platform has gradually expanded, including product development, quality inspection, vocational training, personnel training, information technology, e-commerce, logistics, financing guarantee, patent protection, media publicity, business exhibition, brand cultivation, index publishing and so on.

The implementation of these public services has created favorable conditions for the upgrading of industrial clusters and laid a good foundation.

Talent is the foundation of all development.

At present, the eastern part of the cluster has a large number of employment in different places, and the mobility of personnel is large. It is difficult to recruit and retain people.

At the same time, the industry is also faced with many challenges such as young people's concept of job hunting and employment diversion.

In addition, the supply of professionals in technology research and development, design, marketing and so on is far from the actual demand of enterprises, and there is a certain gap compared with advanced countries.

The shortage of innovative talents is one of the important reasons for these phenomena. In the face of these difficulties, the cluster needs to combine the actual demand of talents and increase the training level of innovative talents. Through the combination of school education and market application, we should vigorously train innovative and applied talents and make the development of the clusters more stable and orderly.

Today, the development of industrial clusters has been unable to adapt to the current development.

Strengthening collaboration among clusters is conducive to integrated innovation, industry complementarity, dislocation development, cost reduction, market expansion and sales expansion, so as to enhance competitiveness.

Therefore, on the basis of local characteristics, the vast cluster should pay close attention to the strategy of "one belt and one road" issued by the state, the integration strategy of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, the strategy of the Yangtze River economic belt, and the strategy of developing the textile industry to solve the employment of millions of people in Xinjiang, and study the direction of adjustment and optimization of the raw material structure, product structure, industrial structure, regional structure and capital structure inside and outside the cluster.

The next step of China Textile Alliance and its professional associations, institutions and so on is to strive to play a bridge role, linking up the clusters of upstream and downstream industries, promoting the organic integration of the industrial chain and realizing the link of value.