China Has Become The World'S Largest Silk Consumer, Accounting For 60% Of Domestic Sales.

"With the improvement of domestic consumption level, domestic demand has become the main force for the consumption of silk products.

China accounts for 60% of domestic silk sales and has become the largest silk consumer in the world.

Yang Yongyuan, honorary president of the China Silk Association, said in an interview recently.

China's silk industry has changed "Butterfly" in its reform and opening up, and its competitiveness has been enhanced and its quality improved.

Under the trend of "Internet +" and consumption upgrading, the silk industry is developing new opportunities and developing opportunities.

China's silk industry has enhanced its competitiveness in the reform and opening up, and has shifted from a single international market to an international and domestic market.

Silk is a natural fiber mainly composed of protein. It has no stimulation to the skin, and the consumer goods such as silk underwear, clothing and silk quilt have entered the common people's homes.

The concentration ratio of China's silk industry has been improving in recent years.

Compared with the end of 2013, the number of enterprises in China's silk industry above designated size decreased by 195, a decrease of 19.7%, and the income of main businesses of single enterprises increased by 17.4%.

Before the reform and opening up, silk products were mainly used for foreign exchange swap. In the year, only more than 2000 silk double happiness quilts were produced for newly married young people.

Yang Yongyuan said that at present, at the industrial level, China's silk industry has been upgraded from the primary products exported to raw silk and silk into the whole chain industry of raw silk, silk and clothing.

The grade, quality and color of the consumer products of silk products have been implemented internationally.

China's silk industry has seen a trend of increase in volume, price increase and good returns.

According to statistics from the Ministry of Commerce's market operation and consumption promotion department, in 2017, there were 11 million 830 thousand acres of mulberry fields in China, 20 million cocoons and 643 thousand tons of cocoons in the whole country, reversing the downward trend since 2013.

In terms of industrial layout, since 2006, under the guidance of national policies, the "East sang West shift" and "East silk westward shift" have been carried out continuously. The mulberry silkworm rearing has been pferred from the southeast coast to the barren slope in the central and western parts of China, so that it does not compete with the arable land for resources.

According to the Ministry of commerce data, in 2017, the proportion of Cocoon Output, raw silk output and silk output in the central and western parts of China accounted for 81.6%, 76.2% and 52.4% respectively, representing an increase of 16.1, 20.5 and 14.8 percentage points respectively over 2013.

In the Midwest, mulberry silkworm rearing area accounts for 82% of the whole country, and the East has the advantage in technology and research and development.

In recent years, China's cocoon and silk industry has constantly deepened its reform, adjusted its structure, promoted technological progress, vigorously developed new products, and expanded the field of silk consumption. The whole industry has maintained a good momentum of development.

In terms of technology, China's silk industry has the most advanced silk manufacturing technology in the world today.

The international standard of electronic monitoring of raw silk, which is dominated by China, has recently been approved by the international organization for standardization.

Zhejiang BABEI group has made new progress in the industrialized application of the whole age artificial feed silkworm technology and equipment, and has built an annual output of 200 tons of fresh cocoon production line and put into operation.

Soochow University, Jiangsu Hua Jia group and other units declared the "sol-gel method for the key technologies and industrialization of silk and wool flame retardant finishing" project, and the project of "Research on the characteristics of fresh cocoon raw silk and the technology of fresh cocoon silk reeling" declared by Zhejiang University and Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, etc., won the two prize of "China Textile Industry Federation" of "textile light" in 2018.

New technologies such as digital printing, electronic pattern design and so on are widely used in the industry to meet the needs of the market for short and rapid changes in silk products.

Daly silk (Zhejiang) company has realized intelligent management of workshop by using network big data and cloud computing technology, and has set an example for leading the industry to build smart factories.

The intelligent color management system and digital double-sided printing technology developed by Wan Shi Li group have won the attention of top international leading companies.

All localities have promulgated policies and measures to mobilize the enthusiasm of leading enterprises to invest in building high-quality cocoon silk bases.

Zhejiang Kai Xi Ya group and Dehong Prefecture Longchuan County Government to carry out strategic cooperation, invest in the development of mulberry mulberry, silkworm, silk reeling, printing and dyeing and clothing comprehensive processing industrial park.

Jiangsu Hua Jia Group invested and constructed a modern ecological silkworm industry comprehensive demonstration base in Qujing, Yunnan, and actively explored the new mode of modern agriculture development of large-scale, industrialized and intelligent silkworm breeding. Large enterprises such as Jiangsu SOHO group and Xinyuan group also actively sought partners in Yunnan, Guizhou, Anhui and Sichuan to consolidate the agricultural foundation for promoting the high quality development of China's cocoon and silk industry.

At the industrial level, the primary products from raw silk and silk fabrics are pformed into the whole chain industry of raw silk, silk and garments.

The grade, quality and color of the consumer products of silk products have been implemented internationally.

At the same time, all sectors of the society have deeply explored the traditional silk culture elements, and silk and tourism, silk + culture, silk + creativity have developed rapidly. The cocoon popular science base and the silk town have emerged. A number of private enterprises' silk brands have risen, guided by market demand, constantly meeting the needs of consumers for silk quality, and the spirit of artisans is obvious.

The silk industry has also become a pioneer industry in the "one belt and one road" market.

In recent years, Chinese silk enterprises have increased investment in cocoon industry in Uzbekistan, Burma, Africa and other countries, and silkworm eggs and mulberry shoots have been exported to Greece, Central Asia and other countries and regions, and the global distribution of cocoons and silk enterprises in China has become more active.

"In recent years, China's silk industry has stepped up its pace of going out.

Guangdong silk spinning group is actively joining the Beijing summit of China Africa Cooperation Forum. It has initially reached a cooperation intention with the government of Kenya on sericultural industry development projects. It will provide Chinese silk wisdom for African countries' economic development and contribute to the construction of China's silk industry for "one belt and one road".

China silk group has signed an agreement with Thailand's company. The two sides will establish a comprehensive strategic partnership in many fields, such as high quality silkworm base construction and silk brand cooperation.

Kai Xi Ya group introduced the former Dior women's dress design director, through strengthening product research and development design, explore and cultivate well-known brands of international silk.

We have successfully signed a contract with the French LVMH group and will carry out deep cooperation in various aspects such as brand, channel, technology and talents to create a value chain of high-end silk fabrics.

Tang Lin, President of China Silk Association, said.

Tang Lin said: "the situation facing the whole industry is still complicated. We should treat the changes of international environment and domestic conditions dialectically.

On the one hand, China's economic development is in an important period of strategic opportunities. The traditional cocoon and silk industry is far less vulnerable than the emerging industries, and the space for continued downward adjustment is extremely limited.

On the other hand, there will be no fundamental improvement in the domestic and international business environment for a short period of time. There may be many uncertain events. Insufficient growth in domestic and foreign market demand will also bring some pressure to the development of the industry.

Ling Lanfang, vice chairman of the China Silk Association and chairman of the Silk Road group company, said: "the current difficulties and opportunities coexist. The difficulties are mainly reflected in the sudden, financial and uncertainty aspects, and consumer demand has been curbed.

Against this background, we still need to see opportunities for development, the support of governments at all levels to private enterprises and the upgrading of consumption as a whole.

When talking about the future development of cocoon and silk industry, Ling Lanfang said that the promotion of sericulture industrialization, reeling intelligence, fabric digitalization and market internal demand will be the focus of the development of cocoon silk industry.

"The silk industry has entered the era of high cost, and this trend will continue for a long time.

In recent years, with the continuous increase of production costs, raw silk prices will maintain a trend of high volatility. However, high cost means high input and high risk, accurately judging the situation of raw material production and supply and marketing, and effectively preventing price ups and downs, which is the key to the stable and sustainable development of silk industry in the future.

Liu Wenquan, Secretary General of the China Silk Association, said.

On the basis of inheriting the history and culture of silk, we should intensify our efforts to innovate. Liu Wenquan believes that it is an important issue facing the silk industry of all countries, including product innovation, technological innovation, management innovation and marketing mode innovation.

Moreover, it is the only way for the silk industry to strengthen deep-seated cooperation among various countries and realize the development of Baotuan.

Economic globalization has become a general consensus. Although the development of silk industry in different countries is not the same, there are various difficulties and problems at present. But if we can strengthen communication and coordination, learn from each other's advantages and give full play to their respective advantages, we will be able to form concerted efforts to promote the realization of small industries.