Surge High And Sweep Forward! Xiaoping Talked About China's Chemical Fiber Industry For 70 Years

Wen / Duan Xiaoping, President of China Chemical Fiber Industry Association

In 1949, People's Republic of China was proclaimed to the world and opened up a new era of Chinese history. Since then, China has truly become an independent country, realizing the unprecedented stability and unity of the Chinese nation, fundamentally changing the status of the Chinese nation and opening up a new chapter in national rejuvenation. In the 70 years, it is only a brief moment in the long course of time, but it has profoundly changed the historical process of China and changed the global development pattern.

70 years of hard work, 70 years of spring and autumn, the Chinese nation ushered in a great leap from standing up, becoming rich and strong. In the past 70 years, all walks of life have created unprecedented changes. Many industries have entered the forefront of the world in terms of scale of production, technology, equipment and operation management.

As a mother industry, the textile industry is a pillar industry to solve the problem of food and clothing. The Ministry of textile industry was established at the beginning of the new China government. In the past 70 years, the important position of China's textile industry in the national economy has not changed. It is still the basic industry supporting the economic development and the supply department of the important livelihood products. As the source of the textile industry, the process of China's chemical fiber industry coming from behind the world is a miracle. Over the past 70 years, China's chemical fiber industry has gone through a magnificent process of struggle, precipitating an unprecedented leap in the industry from scratch, from weak to strong, from immature to mature. It contains several generations of chemical fiber people always vigorous and vigorous exploration and practice.

At the beginning of the founding of new China, the main raw materials of the textile industry were cotton, wool, hemp, silk and other natural fibers, which could not meet the processing needs of the textile industry and the clothing demand of the people. In 1949, only 1 billion 890 million meters of cotton cloth could be produced in the whole country, with a population of 3.5 meters per person. The lack of cloth tickets and the habit of "new three years, old three years, sewing and making up for three years" are reflecting the poor and insufficient supply of our textile materials, textiles and garments. How can we fundamentally solve the problem of raw materials needed for large-scale development of the textile industry and solve the problem of people's clothing? In the practice of building and developing new China's textile industry, the Chinese Communists foresighted the necessity of developing the chemical fiber industry and began to implement the strategy of "natural fiber and chemical fiber simultaneously".

China's chemical fiber industry started a difficult road from scratch. Until the late 50s, the annual output of China's chemical fiber was still less than 10 thousand tons, so it was ignored in global statistics. In 1960, China chemical fiber entered the "world chemical fiber production statistics" with an annual output of 10 thousand and 600 tons.

In 1978, the party made a strategic decision to shift the focus of work to the socialist modernization in the third Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Central Committee, and the opening of the reform and opening up, China's chemical fiber industry also ushered in a historic opportunity for development. In 1978, China's chemical fiber production was 258 thousand tons, accounting for 3% of the world's total chemical fiber output. In 1985, the first Beijing international chemical fiber conference of the Ministry of textile industry and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (China's international chemical fiber Conference) opened in 1985, opening the door for mutual learning and communication between China and the global fiber industry. This is another major move for China's chemical fiber industry to reform and open up, which has far-reaching implications for the development of the global chemical fiber industry. In 1986, China's chemical fiber industry entered the ranks of the world's major chemical fiber manufacturing industries with "annual output breaking millions of tons" and "global accounting for 6%".

In 1990, China has been able to produce almost all conventional chemical fibers, and its production capacity has reached 1 million 800 thousand tons, basically forming a more complete chemical fiber industry system. In 1998, China's chemical fiber production reached 5 million 100 thousand tons, accounting for 24% of the world's total chemical fiber output. So far, after the reform and opening up, China has spent 20 years becoming the world's largest chemical fiber producer, becoming the most dynamic and influential country in the world's chemical fiber industry. The development of the chemical fiber industry has also contributed to China's bid farewell to the "cloth ticket era" and laid a solid foundation for a well-off society.

Since entering the new century, especially since China's accession to the WTO, the reform and opening up of China's chemical fiber industry has been intensified, so that its technology has been upgraded in an all-round way and the industrial scale has significantly improved. At the same time, the main body of property rights of enterprises is diversified. A group of mixed ownership of chemical fiber enterprises has emerged, which has greatly enhanced the vitality of industrial development. Under the combined forces of many factors, China's chemical fiber industry has ushered in the golden ten years of rapid development. The breakthrough of large-scale polyester technology has created the scale myth of the chemical fiber industry. In 2010, China's chemical fiber production reached 30 million 900 thousand tons, accounting for nearly 60% of the world's total. The proportion of chemical fiber in China's textile fiber processing accounts for more than 2/3, and the total output of textile and clothing products in chemical fiber products accounted for 40.4%. China's chemical fiber products not only met domestic demand, but also increased export volume, and achieved net export of chemical fibre in 2007. China's chemical fiber industry has become one of the most dynamic and indispensable industries in China's national economy. China has become a major chemical fiber industry in the world, and has made great contributions to meet the needs of the Chinese people and the people of the world.

During the "12th Five-Year" period, China's chemical fiber industry continued to promote structural adjustment and industrial upgrading, and gradually established a leading position in the field of conventional fiber production in line with developed countries. The products produced from conventional chemical fibers, high-performance chemical fibers to bio based chemical fibers became the most widely covered and widely used countries. The comprehensive development of high-tech fiber production has greatly shortened the gap between the developed countries and the developed countries for nearly 30 years, and made breakthrough progress in R & D and industrialization. The industry has achieved fruitful results in terms of production level, operation quality and efficiency, industrial upgrading, technological innovation, brand building, energy saving and emission reduction, and core competitiveness.

But after 2012, the growth rate of the chemical fiber industry slowed down obviously, and the development of the industry gradually entered the "new normal" of low and medium speed growth, forcing the enterprises to accelerate the transformation and upgrading step by step. The adjustment of survival is bound to be accompanied by the transformation of industrial enterprises, so that the industry can transform from scale and quantity growth to quality and efficiency development.

In this context, China's fiber fashion trend came into being. After 2012~2019 years of cultivation and fermentation, the trend of China's fiber industry has attracted more and more chemical fiber enterprises to come to this platform. It has promoted the number of exhibition area and number of exhibitors in China's international yarn exhibition, and has guided the chemical fiber enterprises to participate in the process of "China's fiber brand construction". It has become a symbol of the development of China's chemical fiber industry in the brand development stage. At the same time, enterprises have gained substantial benefits, increased the sense of satisfaction and satisfaction of the enterprises, made original innovation and collaborative innovation become a beautiful scenic spot in the industry; leading the integration of refining and chemical industry, industrial agglomeration, leading effect, subdivision and so on become the new development trend of the industry. Through the leading research and release of China's fiber fashion trend strategy, China's chemical fiber enterprises have intensified the development of differentiated and high value-added products, and R & D investment has been continuously improved. The average R & D investment proportion of selected enterprises is more than 5 times that of the industry average. Pay is rewarded, the chemical fiber industry first out of the bottom from 2015, the profitability of the industry continues to improve, the total industry profits for 4 consecutive years to achieve double-digit growth.

During the "13th Five-Year" period, China's chemical fiber industry continued to deepen reform and opening up. The structural reform of the supply side of the industry has made remarkable achievements, and its innovative vitality has been unprecedented. Apart from the trend of China's fiber industry, a revolution in China's fiber industry has been initiated. Technology, green, intelligent manufacturing, industrial and financial integration, standards and talents have also become the main theme of the development of the industry.

At the level of science and technology, the key technology of chemical fiber, functional fiber, bio based chemical fiber, recycling chemical fiber, high-performance fiber and other preparation technology to achieve flying. For example, polylactic acid fiber has broken through the coloring technology of raw liquid and low temperature dyeing of fabrics. The T300, T700, T800 and T1000 of carbon fiber have all been industrialized, and the rapid development of aramid, polyphenylene sulfide fiber and continuous basalt fiber has been achieved. The key technologies such as aramid fiber, polyimide fiber and polytetrafluoroethylene fiber break foreign monopoly, poly aryl ether ketone fiber and silicon carbide fiber. In particular, the innovative technologies of some leading enterprises have achieved unprecedented results. 中復神鷹碳纖維有限責任公司的“干噴濕紡千噸級高強/百噸級中模碳纖維產業化關鍵技術及應用”榮獲國家科技進步獎一等獎；“國產化 Lyocell纖維產業化成套技術及裝備研發”、“靜電噴射沉積碳納米管增強碳纖維及其復合材料關鍵制備技術與應用”、“粗旦錦綸 6單絲及分纖母絲紡牽一步法高速紡關鍵技術與裝備”等項目榮獲“紡織之光”2018年度中國紡織工業聯合會科學技術獎一等獎等；由中國化學纖維工業協會牽頭推進的新視界先進功能纖維創新中心，已經獲得江蘇省省級評定認可，正向國家級制造業創新中心邁進；就在不久前，中復神鷹年產2萬噸高性能碳纖維及配套原絲項目在西寧正式動工，投產后將極大提高國產高性能碳纖維的自主保障能力；而光威復材在包頭的萬噸級碳纖維產業化項目也已順利簽約，布局大絲束碳纖維，不斷滿足各行各業對碳纖維 Demand. High performance chemical fibers and composites have become an important pillar material industry in defense, military and aerospace industries.

At the green level, the chemical fiber industry has also achieved remarkable results, showing a new look. The green development level of the chemical fiber industry has been actively involved in 27 bio based chemical fibers, recycled recycled chemical fibers and green liquor coloring chemical fibers. The guiding industries such as the green fiber development alliance of the regenerated cellulose fiber industry take the initiative to adapt to the strict environmental protection requirements and apply energy saving and emission reduction technologies, so that good enterprises can win the competition, promote technological progress and obtain better market share, and at the same time, assume more social responsibilities for the "green water and green hills" construction in the whole society. The environmental protection level of the industry will reach the international advanced level in three years. The concept of "green manufacturing technology: 8+3" proposed in the "13th Five-Year" period, that is, 8 energy saving and emission reduction technologies and 3 green fiber manufacturing technologies, has made considerable progress in general. For example, green fiber logo certification will guide the industry to take the green development path, advocate green design, green production, green consumption, standardize the market through third party certification and management, and effectively enhance the market.

At the level of intelligent manufacturing, many chemical fiber enterprises change from mechanization to automation through the "machine substitution". Some links in production are changed from manpower to machine hand or automatic line, which saves a lot of manpower and realizes data acquisition mechanization. The application of information and big data in production line makes data available resources, makes the product development reversible and plastic, shortens the product development cycle, and provides mass customization service for customers. The improvement of product quality brought by the standardization of intelligent manufacturing provides important support for the development of high quality industries. In the future, intelligent manufacturing will bring new changes to the industry and further consolidate the international competitiveness of the modern manufacturing industry.

The combination of industry and finance has made remarkable achievements in the reform and opening up of the capital market, and more eligible enterprises have been listed. Up to now, there are dozens of Listed Companies in the chemical fiber industry. The activity level of chemical fiber plate stocks is evidence of dynamic industry. In addition, China Chemical Fiber Industry Association and China Textile Asset Management Co., Ltd. jointly identified "10 key enterprises in 2017~2018 chemical fiber industry to prepare pre listed enterprises". Last year's textile industry's three year action plan for integration of industry and Finance released 3 major training priorities: technological innovation, brand innovation and development model innovation, including the subdivision of leading companies, the global layout of "one belt and one road", and "one-stop production". The integration of production and finance will fundamentally promote the transformation and upgrading of the textile and chemical fiber industry and achieve high quality development. At present, the mainstream production enterprises of the mainstream products of the chemical fiber industry almost achieve 100% of asset securitization, and become unique in the textile industry.

At the standard level, the standardization role in the field of chemical fiber is becoming more and more obvious in the high quality development of the chemical fiber industry. The effectiveness, advancement and applicability of the standard are further enhanced, and it is deeply integrated with the green development and technological innovation of the industry. The National Technical Committee for chemical fiber standardization will also make progress after decades of unremitting efforts.

At the level of talents, industry and enterprises pay more attention to talents and R & D. People have realized that products can be duplicated, but the product R & D system and mode which are accumulated over a long period of time are hard to duplicate. Therefore, we need to reserve talents, retain talents, and do some forward-looking research so as not to be overturned by new technologies and new entrants. The national textile composite talent training project advanced training course has opened the door of industrial chain and compound knowledge learning for industrial practitioners, and has built a bridge of trust for communication and cooperation between upstream and downstream, creating a new path for the growth of composite talents in the textile and chemical fiber industry.

In addition, the reform and opening up of China's chemical fiber industry has created a favorable environment for the growth of enterprises and the growth of entrepreneurs. It has provided fair and fair policy support and promoted them to become the core driving force and inexhaustible wealth to promote the rapid development of the industry. With the liberalization of investment in the field of refining and chemical industry, private capital has entered rapidly. Hengli, Sheng Hong, Rong Sheng, Tong Kun and other 4 chemical fiber enterprises have entered the field of domestic refining and chemical industry. Hengyi is continuing to carry forward the spirit of "dare to be first", practicing the "one belt and one road" initiative, and layout Brunei refining. By 2020, the total capacity of the private chemical fiber enterprises will reach about 1 billion tons. The chemical fiber industry, especially the synthetic fiber industry, will get a more stable and stable supply of raw materials with higher quality and lower cost. This will be a new competitive advantage for China's chemical fiber industry.

Over the past 70 years, China's chemical fiber industry has gone through countless hardships and vicissitudes, and finally created the magnificence and splendor of today. In 2018, the output of chemical fiber reached 50 million 110 thousand tons, accounting for nearly 70% of the world's chemical fiber output. About 85% of China's textile industry's fiber processing capacity was chemical fiber. In 2018, the main business income of the chemical fiber industry reached 799 billion yuan, up 12.4% over the same period last year, and realized a total profit of 39 billion 400 million yuan, an increase of 10.3% over the same period last year, which has become an important support for the textile industry's economic growth. China's chemical fiber industry has a new position of "international competitive advantage industries, important textile pillar industries, important components of strategic emerging industries, innovation driven technology industry, culture led fashion industry and responsibility oriented green industry".

In the past 70 years, the Communist Party of China has always adhered to the concept of "governing for the people", putting the development of the textile and chemical fiber industry as an important part of "ensuring and improving people's livelihood", and in promoting the development of the textile and chemical fiber industry, giving full play to the institutional advantages of socialism with Chinese characteristics. The growth and growth of China's chemical fiber industry benefited from the planned economy advantage of a country in its early stage of development. The development and growth benefited from the reform and opening up, which led the market to play a leading role in the allocation of resources, benefiting from the introduction of advanced technology and equipment and management concepts, and benefiting from exchanges and cooperation in the global arena.

China today is at an important point of intersection between history and future. The more complicated the situation is, the more arduous the task is. In the future, China's chemical fiber industry must firmly remember the initial intention of "meeting the needs of people's beautiful life". It should be incomparable to meet the needs of the contemporary people and to meet the needs of future generations. It is also necessary to constantly improve the survival and competitiveness of the Chinese chemical fiber industry, to carry out the new development concept, to continuously promote the sustainable development of China's chemical fiber industry, to pay more attention to the coordinated development of the upstream and downstream industries, to make green development and differentiated development, to pay more attention to the substitution of machines and the development of intelligence.