From Imitation To Innovation, Domestic Spinning Machines Run From Relying On Foreign Aid To Strength.

In the past 40 years since reform and opening up

Trade has seized the opportunity to participate in the global textile machinery production and trade division. Under the framework of global economic integration and trade liberalization, relying on endogenous technological progress, we continuously enhance the competitiveness of products and the added value of export commodities, and gradually move towards the high-end of the global textile machinery trade value chain.

40 years in the long course of human history, it is just a drop in the ocean.

But in the history of trade development in China and even in the world, the world has witnessed a global trend in the past 40 years.

The pformation of the largest developing country in the marginal zone of value chain to the main participants and system constructors of international trade.

Among them, China's textile machinery trade has grasped the opportunity to participate in the global textile machinery production and trade division through reform and opening up. Under the framework of global economic integration and trade liberalization, relying on endogenous technological progress, it continuously promotes product competitiveness and added value of export commodities, and gradually moves towards the high-end of the global textile machinery trade value chain.

Three stages from imitation to innovation

From the beginning of reform and opening up to 2000, it can be said that the development period of China's textile machinery exports.

In the 80s of last century, with the reform and opening up and the reform of the foreign trade system, textile machinery and technology import and export companies were set up. Some provinces and cities had foreign trade windows, and some enterprises also had the right to export independently. Since then, the export volume of textile machinery has increased year by year.

In the early 90s of last century, China's textile machinery and equipment industry, after tackling key problems in science and technology, introduced digestion and absorption technology combined with independent development, which greatly improved the level and quality of textile machinery and equipment.

China's textile machinery enterprises began to open up overseas markets, and cotton spinning equipment such as flower cleaning machines, carding machines, spinning frames and roving machines began to enter the foreign market.

At this time, 30% of textile machinery products produced and sold by China's textile machinery industry reached the international level in the 80s of last century, and the gap with the international level gradually narrowed.

During the period ~2000 1996, China's textile machinery products continued to open up new overseas markets. Taking the project of Syria 240 thousand spindles and cotton spinning equipment as the international bid, the opportunity to consolidate the export markets of Southeast Asia and Africa, opening up new areas such as Egypt, Mexico and Peru, laid the foundation for expanding export of textile machinery.

Entering the century, China's textile machinery exports have entered a stage of rapid development.

In 2001 ~2005, despite the new development of China's textile machinery manufacturing technology and equipment, the export of China's textile machinery has been hovering around us $500 million, which does not match the rapid development of our country.

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In 2006, China's textile machinery exports broke through the US $1 billion mark for the first time, reaching US $1 billion 237 million; in 2007, we continued to maintain growth of over US $1 billion 500 million; in spite of the outbreak of the global financial crisis in 2008, the impact on exports was not obvious, and exports amounted to US $1 billion 567 million in the whole year. The impact of the financial crisis on textile machinery exports was mainly in 2009, and exports dropped to US $1 billion 211 million.

During this period, China's knitting and printing and dyeing equipment manufacturing level increased rapidly, greatly enriched the categories of textile machinery export products, and also doubled the export volume of textile machinery in 5 years. This is the 5 fastest growing export of textile machinery exports in China.

Since 2011, China's textile machinery exports have entered a period of adjustment.

During the "12th Five-Year" period, with the progress of science and technology, the domestic market share remained above 70%, and the export volume increased from US $2 billion 245 million in 2011 to US $3 billion 89 million in 2015, with an average annual growth of 8.3%.

Since entering the "13th Five-Year", the textile industry in China has continued to adjust its product structure, the efforts to develop new products, and actively explore overseas markets, and achieved better export performance in order to maintain steady development of the whole industry.

Internal and external causes to promote rapid growth of exports

Throughout the 40 years of reform and opening up, the export volume of China's textile machinery products has shown a rapid growth.

In addition to the external factors such as the opening of the international spinning machine market environment and good growth opportunities, China's textile machinery enterprises have made great efforts to improve their internal strength, and constantly improved their equipment and technology level, and combined internal and external factors to make high-speed growth come to an end.

The pfer of global textile industry to Asia has provided huge market opportunities for China's textile machinery exports.

The governments of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh support the development of the textile industry by increasing investment, introducing preferential policies and lowering loan interest rates, making the demand for textile machinery in these countries very exuberant.

Some excellent textile enterprises in China have implemented the strategy of "going out", and the establishment of processing plants abroad has also effectively promoted the export of textile machinery.

Under the premise of stabilizing the Southeast Asian market, China's textile machinery equipment has gradually opened the door to the markets of some countries in Africa and the Americas, and the layout of China's textile machinery exports is also expanding.

In fact, apart from external factors, the main reason for the high growth of textile machinery exports is that China's equipment products have strong competitive strength, and the categories of export products have also made great breakthroughs.

The mechanical and electrical integration degree of the complete sets of equipment with better foundation has been continuously improved. Compared with the foreign products of the same grade, it has an advantage in cost performance.

In particular, it is worth mentioning that, during the "11th Five-Year", China's chemical fiber equipment developed rapidly. China's textile machinery enterprises independently developed and produced 200 thousand tons of polyester plant and 50 tons of silk equipment per day, and 100 tons and 200 tons of polyester staple equipment are highly praised by the market. In Egypt, Indonesia and other countries, China has a foreign aid project for chemical fiber equipment.

In the past, China's relatively weak foundation equipment, due to the investment of internationally renowned enterprises, the level of technology has improved significantly.

At the same time, the supporting capability of our textile machinery products is increasing. The auxiliary devices and spare parts in China are not only exported to foreign textile enterprises, but also some well-known international textile machinery manufacturers.

With the annual growth of China's textile machinery exports, the marketing network of China's textile machinery products exports is gradually improving. Many textile machinery enterprises have set up pre-sale and after-sales service agencies in major overseas sales markets, and have sent special technical personnel to sales outlets, and engineers have carried out regular tour services to solve problems encountered in the operation of equipment.

These timely and in place after-sales service not only won the trust of users, but also laid a good foundation for expanding the local textile machinery market.

"At the beginning of the reform and opening up, the procedures for applying for passports are complex, and it takes at least 3 months to complete.

Now, many countries are visas on arrival. They can arrive in second days by telephone or WeChat.

This has brought a qualitative leap for the efficiency improvement of our textile machinery enterprises after service.

In recent years, with the further deepening of foreign cooperation and cooperation, the technical service of China's textile machinery has made considerable progress, and even better than foreign funded enterprises in terms of services.

Wang Shutian, President of China Textile Machinery Association, said.

Keep up with the pace of upgrading and strive for differentiation.

In the past 40 years of reform and opening up, although China's textile machinery exports have made brilliant achievements, China's textile machinery exports still face many problems at the same time of rapid development.

One of the reasons affecting the export of China's textile machinery is export prices.

The problem of low export prices has plagued China's textile machinery enterprises for many years. After all efforts, the situation has been improved, but it has not changed completely.

Price advantage is undoubtedly the competitiveness of China's spinning and weaving machinery products to seize the international market. However, it is always through the price reduction to win the market that the profits of the textile machinery enterprises are getting thinner and thinner.

Another important factor affecting the export of China's textile machinery is the lack of technological innovation capability of our spinning machinery enterprises, lack of product technology with independent intellectual property rights, and long renewal period of products, which can not respond quickly to market demand.

From input, China's textile machinery enterprises invest less in research and development than foreign enterprises. Foreign enterprises invest in R & D accounts for 8%~12% of sales, while the total R & D investment of China's textile machinery industry accounts for only 1% of sales.

In addition, China's textile machinery independent export brand construction investment is insufficient, overseas propaganda is not enough, the brand effect is empty, the domestic export enterprises disorderly competition, brand building outstanding problems also seriously affect our textile machinery export.

To a certain extent, these problems have affected the pformation process of China's textile machinery export from big country to powerful country, and will continue to affect China's textile machinery development and occupy overseas markets in the future.

Wang Shutian said in an interview: "next, the proportion of China's textile machinery exports in domestic and foreign market sales will further increase.

For textile machinery enterprises, exports are increasingly becoming an effective way to expand their market.

But at present, domestic textile equipment still can not keep pace with the upgrading of the textile industry, and there is still much room for development.

Textile machinery enterprises need to make continuous efforts in the international market development.

The domestic textile machinery enterprises should focus on the differentiation of product development, and win market position and discourse power with quality and characteristics.