Textile And Garment Industry In Xinjiang: Opportunities And Challenges For Future Development

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The working symposium is determined to be implemented in Xinjiang.

Xinjiang has become a fertile land for China's textile and garment industry since it has promoted the employment strategy of millions of people.

Over the past two years, with the support of the central government and the aid of the provinces and municipalities, the textile and garment industry has been developing rapidly in Xinjiang under the joint efforts of the party committees and governments at all levels in the autonomous region.

Also in the past two years, as the largest commercial cotton production base in the country, Xinjiang has ushered in important reforms in the cotton industry, returning cotton prices to the market and separating cotton prices.

Area adjustment and other changes are gradually improving the efficiency of cotton production in Xinjiang. As the upper reaches of textile and clothing, especially cotton textile industry, Xinjiang's cotton production affects the textile industry of Xinjiang and even the whole country.

With the major changes in Xinjiang's textile and garment industry and cotton industry, what opportunities are facing the future development of Xinjiang's textile and garment industry with sufficient cotton resources? What are the challenges?

There are soldiers behind the block.

"Before 2006, the national textile and garment enterprises consumed about 11 million tons of cotton per year, which has decreased rapidly in the past two years, 6 million 80 thousand tons in 2014, and 4 million 600 thousand tons last year."

Yao Mu, a member of the Chinese Academy of engineering, textile material scientist and textile educationalist, explained the dilemma faced by the textile and garment industry with a set of data.

"The change in this group of data does not mean that people's consumption ability in the clothing field has become weaker, but the textile and garment enterprises seem to be somewhat powerless in terms of production capacity."

Yao Mu said that with the development of cotton industry in neighboring countries and regions, the cost of cotton in India and other countries is much lower than that in China, and domestic and foreign cotton prices have become upside down. Even cotton yarn prices in some areas are lower than domestic cotton prices. Many enterprises directly import cotton yarn and reduce domestic cotton consumption.

In the field of high-end clothing production, high quality materials need to consume high quality cotton. But in many areas including Xinjiang, it is used to the production mode that has been pursued for years. The quality of cotton has declined, and the difficulty of textile has been increasing. This directly increases the cost of products and weakens the competitiveness.

At the same time, in the field of high-end and customized products, high quality cotton also presents a shortage of supply, which further restricts the development of the textile and garment industry.

Yao Mu said that the tension of raw materials that the textile and garment industry is facing can be summed up. The low end products have foreign competition, and the self-sufficiency ability of high-end products is lacking. The two cotton and textile and garment industries should be closely linked to the upstream and downstream industries, and are in an awkward position.

One seed affects one industry.

To solve the awkward situation encountered by the textile and garment industry and cotton industry, the cotton industry should make corresponding reforms.

Yao Mu believes that the cotton industry in Xinjiang should solve the problem of too complicated varieties.

At present, too many cotton varieties are planted in Xinjiang, which is not only bad for the selection of high-quality cotton, but also can not make unified standard for machine driven cotton promotion. Cotton is easily mixed with impurities in the process of machine production. Some downstream processing enterprises need to arrange for workers to sort out impurities in cotton bags, thus increasing the burden on enterprises.

"To realize the development of textile and garment industry, we must start from a good cotton seed."

Yao Mu said that the cotton industry should change the unfavorable situation which only pursued the unit yield in the past, put the fiber quality in the first place. In the breeding process, we should also focus on the cultivation of high fiber quality cotton, and form a positive interaction between the cotton industry and the downstream textile and garment industry.

Pure cotton is not always the best.

Although Xinjiang is sitting on fine cotton resources, enterprises should abandon the wrong recognition of "pure cotton is the best".

Yao Mu said that with the continuous development of textile technology, mixed textile materials are becoming a hot area in the development of the global textile and garment industry. The special physical and chemical properties of mixed textile materials become an important foundation for the production of high-end and customized garments.

Yao Mu believes that Xinjiang's textile and garment enterprises should rely on local cotton resources instead of relying on local cotton, and increase their research efforts in the field of mixed textile technology on the basis of cotton spinning. This can not only tap new market potential, but also reduce enterprises' dependence on cotton to a certain extent and avoid operational risks.

At the same time, as downstream textile and garment enterprises, we should maintain closer cooperation with the upstream cotton production links.