Textile Technology Elites Gather To Discuss The Direction Of Technological Innovation In The Industry

Under the new orientation of China's textile industry, what is the key direction of future textile technology innovation? How to better play the leading and promoting role of science and technology award work in the industry's scientific and technological innovation? The China Textile Industry Federation recently held a symposium on scientific and technological innovation in the textile industry in Beijing in 2023, inviting academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, leaders of textile related universities, some award-winning projects and individuals of the China Textile Industry Federation Science and Technology Award, heads of scientific research institutes, heads of textile enterprises, etc. to gather for in-depth exchanges and discussions.

Grasp the new position of the industry in the future

Sun Ruizhe, president of China Textile Federation, said that people are very concerned about how long traditional textiles can go on? How much vitality does the traditional discipline still have? This needs to be discussed together. Tradition breeds the future, and the future reshapes the tradition. There are two meanings in this. One is to establish new disciplines to bring new positioning and new cognition to the industry; The second is to endow the traditional textile discipline with new connotation. Group breakthroughs in generative AI, robotics and other technologies have expedited new productivity and production relations, and promoted industrial restructuring and value enhancement.

Li Lingshen, vice president of China Textile Federation, said that the continuous innovation of fiber materials and the continuous development of intelligent and green manufacturing technology have given new paradigm and connotation to the modern textile industry. Textile is no longer just a traditional industry "under the clothing world", but breeds new fields and new tracks in the innovation of defense and military industry, aerospace, medical and health, construction and other industries. With the industrial textiles entering the national economic industry classification and standard system, the textile industry classification has broken through the traditional field of only textiles, clothing and chemical fibers, making the development of industrial textiles have a new orientation and direction, and become a new economic growth point of the textile industry.

Duan Xiaoping, vice president of China Textile Federation, said that to further enhance China's position as a textile power, theoretical innovation and cross-border cooperation in the industrial chain are needed. Through the cross-border integration of intelligent manufacturing and big data, we can overcome some practical technical problems.

Yu Jianyong, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, believes that the driving force of textile endogenous science and technology needs to be further improved, and the expansion of industrial fields also needs to be solved. The positioning of the textile industry has different connotations in different periods. In the new period, we should further increase the driving force of scientific and technological innovation, promote the expansion of new tracks, and increase cross integration. The focus of textile science and technology innovation should adhere to integrity and innovation, and respect the connotation of textile itself to develop.

Sun Yize, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said that the development of the textile industry has extended to many strategic emerging industries in China, far beyond the boundaries of traditional textiles. The application of new materials and the support of textile equipment have expanded the application field of industrial textiles. Many new textile materials belong to national strategic emerging industries, but many equipment have not yet formed a technological innovation system. In the future, we should focus on the transformation and upgrading of intelligent manufacturing in traditional industries, form an intelligent equipment innovation system for the whole industrial chain of carbon fiber composite materials, and overcome the technical difficulties of intelligent manufacturing equipment for advanced textile materials.

Promote the integration and innovation of industry science and technology

Industrial science and technology issues involve value promotion and industrial reconstruction. Sun Ruizhe proposed that, from the perspective of social development, digitalization and artificial intelligence are changing productivity and production relations. From the perspective of the general trend, integration, innovation and interdisciplinary has become an irresistible trend. Any industry is no longer isolated. Only by finding a new foothold and a new direction of development in cross integration can it have vitality. In the next step, the industry's scientific and technological work should focus on the connotation of textile, and make innovations in coordination. The science and technology award should be improved to attract more forces to participate in the industry's science and technology work.

Zhang Chuanxiong, director of the Science and Technology Development Department of China Textile Federation, said that next year the industry's scientific and technological innovation will focus on four key tasks. First, continue to promote the integration and innovation of industry technology and its promotion and application in the downstream; Second, we will continue to improve the green manufacturing technology system in the textile industry, focus on the research on the synergy of pollution reduction and carbon reduction in the textile industry, and form a sound green low-carbon and pollution reduction and carbon reduction technology system in the textile industry; Third, continue to promote the comprehensive integration and transformation of intelligence and textile industrialization, and comprehensively popularize digital and intelligent transformation for SMEs in the industry; Fourth, improve the brand influence of China Textile Federation Science and Technology Award, optimize the expert selection system and evaluation system, reduce the award rate from 40% to less than 30%, and attract cross-border forces to participate in the application and evaluation of awards.

Ni Yangsheng, president of China Textile and Garment Education Association, said that talents are behind scientific and technological innovation. At present, many colleges and universities have established an industry education integration community. Through school enterprise cooperation, they use key laboratories and engineering centers to carry out scientific and technological innovation. In terms of science and technology awards, I hope that the school's good textbooks can be used as the application items for science and technology awards.

The difference between textile industry and other industries lies in fiber, and many materials are used in high-tech fields such as aerospace. Fu Guangwei, president of the China Textile Engineering Society, suggested further expanding the first level discipline category of textile engineering in colleges and universities, so that the textile industry "has its share in fashion, science and technology, low-carbon voice, and wisdom".

Yang Yumin, president of Nantong University, has been engaged in medical materials research for many years. He said that sports medicine is more realized by intelligent wearing. The textile and clothing industry has already broken through the tradition and needs a new orientation, extending the connotation of clothing to the concept of human perception and regulation of the outside world, and scientifically grasping the development direction of the industry.

Jia Ronglin, president of Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, said that the college has constructed 13 research directions in promoting organized scientific research, focusing on the construction of an interdisciplinary platform for emerging disciplines of "clothing science", carrying out basic and applied research on "neck sticking" problems, and forming new projects, new achievements and new influence. In the combination of new materials, sustainable fashion and new technologies in the future, we will focus on strengthening the development of intelligent textiles, bioengineering materials, digital design and manufacturing.

Wang Haiyan, president of Xi'an Engineering University, said that in recent years, the university has actively implemented the strategy of "integration of science and education" and "integration of industry and education" to cultivate an integrated talent team. First of all, we should solidly promote system building. Through reforming the evaluation system and improving the mechanism and system, the university has stimulated the enthusiasm and motivation of scientific researchers; Secondly, build a high-level scientific research and innovation team. Promote interdisciplinary integration, comprehensively improve the "trinity" innovation ability of talents, disciplines and scientific research, and build a national scientific and technological innovation team.

Jia Shaoxin, secretary of the Party Committee of Zhongyuan University of Technology, said that the textile discipline is one of the most important disciplines of Zhongyuan University of Technology. The discipline group of "new materials and high-end equipment for textile and clothing", with the discipline of "textile science and engineering" as the main body, was selected as the first class A construction project of the advantageous characteristic discipline group in Henan Province, which is the characteristic backbone discipline group in Henan Province. At present, the university is promoting the reconstruction of the discipline college, making efforts to integrate the textile discipline and electronic information according to the national and social development needs.

At the meeting, leaders of Jiangnan University, Tianjin University of Technology, Qingdao University, Zhejiang University of Technology, Wuhan Textile University and other universities, representatives of the National Advanced Functional Fiber Innovation Center, the National Advanced Printing and Dyeing Technology Innovation Center, textile research institutes and a number of outstanding textile enterprises exchanged around the direction of industrial innovation and technology research and development.