Textile Industry: Pay Equal Attention To Carbon Reduction And Short Board By Digital Enabling

With the increasing power of digital economy engine and the increasingly urgent situation of global climate governance, digital empowerment and green transformation provide key support for the textile industry to seek the future business form evolution and economic development model upgrading, and realize sustainable development.

Sun Ruizhe, President of the International Federation of textile manufacturers and President of China Textile Industry Federation, said at the fourth world cloth merchants' conference recently held in Keqiao District, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang province that profound changes are taking place in the global textile industry value chain, accelerating the entry into a new era with digital and green as the core. China's textile and garment industry shows strong toughness and vitality, which plays an important role in promoting common prosperity and open development.

Transforming intelligent weaving

More than 30 leading enterprises were gathered at the 2021 innovation achievement exhibition of China's well-known textile enterprises, which showed the strong innovation energy of China's textile and garment industry chain.

In the smart fashion clothing product exhibition area, five brand enterprises, namely winner fashion, Amoy, SEMAR, Orient International and Qingdao red collar, exhibited many popular products in the market, such as sports intelligent underwear that can monitor human heart rate in real time, carbon fiber flexible heating jacket that can adjust temperature, "ice cream" Lyocell jeans, men's multifunctional protective coat, children's mosquito proof T-shirt, etc, It reflects the high-end level of the industry in terms of intelligence, technology and fashion product development.

Under the background of digital transformation, China's textile industry has carried out transformation and upgrading in intelligent weaving.

As an important traditional textile industry town, Keqiao, Shaoxing, accounts for more than 30% of the national output of printed and dyed fabrics and a quarter of the global textile trade. At present, it is exploring the application scenario of "industrial brain + future factory", creating a textile printing and dyeing industry brain covering the whole industry chain and all elements, and promoting the digital upgrading of Keqiao Textile printing and dyeing industrial cluster.

Textile enterprises should seize the great opportunity brought by digitalization and look for new development impetus. Deng Shengming, deputy general manager of Fujian Quanzhou Haitian Materials Technology Co., Ltd., proposed that enterprises can rely on information technology as support, rely on external capacity integration, focus on product development and customer service, quickly respond to market changes and realize transformation. Through the effective docking of data or collaboration of the system to the enterprise, to ensure data interoperability. He believes that under the background of digital driving, big data technology, automatic printing and dyeing technology and data design will form a mode of intelligent design, enable industrial development, effectively guide product development, reduce R & D costs, and realize online multi-party interconnection and communication.

At present, China's textile industry has formed a systematic solution in the aspects of digital workshop, intelligent production, personalized customization and network collaboration, and has been promoted from the pilot to the whole industry, which has achieved remarkable results in improving production efficiency, improving product quality and reducing energy consumption and emission reduction.

Qiao Yanjin, director of China Textile Information Center, said that gradually establishing digital adaptability, connectivity and innovation in the face of the future will help China's textile and garment industry become the main driver of world fashion technology, an important leader of global fashion, and a powerful promoter of sustainable development.

Pay equal attention to carbon reduction and short board

As an important field to promote carbon peaking and carbon neutralization, China's textile and garment industry has always been an active force in global sustainable governance.

During the cloth merchants conference, 17 leading brand enterprises in China and 40 key textile enterprises jointly held a launching ceremony of "30.60 China Textile and clothing carbon neutralization and acceleration action" in Keqiao, and announced the climate action commitment: the climate training camp will be launched within 6 months, the "double carbon" target will be formulated within 12 months, and the "double carbon" action plan and roadmap will be released within 24 months, And regularly carry out carbon information disclosure.

"30 · 60 China Textile and garment carbon neutralization acceleration action" marks the climate innovation 2030 action started by China's textile and garment industry in 2017 from the spontaneous stage to the independent stage. Cao Xuejun, a first-class inspector of the Department of consumer goods industry of the Ministry of industry and information technology, said that in response to climate change, the textile industry has taken positive actions, from "carbon management innovation 2020 action" to "climate innovation 2030 action" to "30.60 China's textile and clothing carbon neutralization acceleration action", which has been actively put into industrial practice. At present, a number of pioneer enterprises have been cultivated, It will lead more enterprises and even more industries to take action.

On the one hand, China's textile industry should reduce carbon, on the other hand, it is also facing the problems of overcapacity, large but not strong and other short board problems. In this regard, as one of the main leaders of the "carbon neutral framework roadmap" project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ding Zhongli, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, believes that the establishment of China's "double carbon" target is a major challenge and a rare opportunity for the transformation and upgrading of the textile industry. He suggested that textile enterprises should focus on technological innovation and rely on technological progress and innovation to drive high-quality development; At the same time, we should adhere to open cooperation, build a collaborative development model of the whole industrial chain, and accelerate the formation of a green and low-carbon modern textile industry system.

According to reports, in order to strengthen the leading role of innovation driven and science and technology in the direction of low-carbon transformation of the industry, the China Textile Industry Federation will create the enterprise sustainable development innovation center of "3060 carbon neutralization and acceleration plan of China's textile and garment industry", integrate the advantageous resources of the global industrial chain including the government, industry management departments, think tanks, scientific research institutions, and technical institutions, It focuses on supporting the enterprises of "3060 action plan" to jointly carry out collaborative R & D, mode exploration, technological innovation, product innovation, market application research, development and practice, and personnel training under the "double carbon" goal orientation.

Strengthening global cooperation

As a window for dialogue, exchange and cooperation with the world textile industry, four consecutive World cloth merchants' conferences have become an important force to promote the spiral rise of the textile industry system.

Ma Weiguang, Secretary of the Shaoxing Municipal Party committee, said that with the world cloth merchants conference as the starting point, Shaoxing has built a collaborative innovation platform connecting designers and engineers from the world. It has cooperated with international textile fashion cities to create design dream factories and manufacturing cloud factories, and promote the construction of Digital Logistics, initially forming a new pattern of innovation and development of the whole industry chain.

"In Shaoxing, China Light and Textile City alone has established cooperative relations with textile associations in 52 countries and regions. The average market turnover has increased by 19% in the past two years and the online turnover has increased by 24% in two years, showing the strong vitality of the textile industry under the epidemic situation," Ma said.

"The theme of" digital empowerment and green symbiosis "summarizes the challenges facing the global textile and garment industry." according to Han bekke, chairman of the international garment Federation (IAF), the key to solving these challenges lies in global cooperation, and Chinese enterprises are an integral part of the global textile and clothing supply chain.

"At present, the global fashion industry needs to work more closely together to meet the challenges brought by the new round of industrial transformation." Mario Boselli, honorary chairman of the Italian national fashion chamber of Commerce (CNMI), also agrees with the positive role of international cooperation. He said that Italy and China have many complementary development opportunities in the supply chain of fashion industry, and closer cooperation between the two industries will bring win-win results.

China is a big country of textile and garment production, consumption and export, with complete industrial supporting system and international advanced overall technical equipment. China's textile industry is indeed an important support for the smooth operation of the world textile industry system.

Sun Ruizhe said that China's textile and garment industry should face the changing situation with new practice, that is, to consolidate the manufacturing foundation and consolidate the advantages of industrial scale and system; Strengthen scientific and technological innovation to form new development momentum; Pay attention to content transformation and form new value sources; Focus on market segmentation and build a more malleable market system; Develop the cluster economy and create a coordinated and efficient industrial ecology; Accelerate green transformation and promote low-carbon sustainable development of industrial cycle. He stressed that strengthening cooperation, creating a more perfect innovation system, a higher quality manufacturing system, a more integrated market system and a more responsible ecological system will be an important path to jointly create the future of the global textile and clothing industry.