What Is the Textile Industry?

The textile industry in China is a highly labor-intensive industry and highly dependent on foreign countries. China is the world's largest producer and exporter of textiles and garments. The sustained and stable growth of textiles and garments exports is essential to ensure China's foreign exchange reserves, balance of payments, the stability of the RMB exchange rate, social employment and sustainable development of the textile industry.

Textile industry

The textile industry in China is a highly labor-intensive and

The ancient Chinese textile and printing and dyeing technology has a very long history. As far back as the primitive society, in order to adapt to the climate change, the ancients had learned to use local materials, use natural resources as raw materials for textiles, printing and dyeing, and manufacture simple textile tools. To this day, our daily clothes, certain daily necessities and art are the products of textile and printing technology.

Chinese machine tool textiles originated from spinning wheels and waist machines in the Neolithic period 5,000 years ago. During the Western Zhou Dynasty, simple mechanical carts, spinning wheels, and looms with traditional performances appeared one after another.

The economic operation of the textile industry in 2012 has the following characteristics:

Slowing down and narrowing growth

The growth rate of production slowed down compared to the previous year, but the degree of decline in the growth rate narrowed .

From January to October 2012, the total industrial output value of 37,000 textile enterprises above designated size in China totaled 468.129 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 11.3%, an increase of 17 percentage points from the same period last year, a 3.4 percentage point decrease from the first quarter, and It rose 0.4 percentage point in September. In terms of the output of major categories of products, according to the statistics of the National Bureau of Statistics, from January to October, the output of chemical fiber, cloth and clothing of enterprises above designated size was 31.629 million tons, 52.35 billion meters, and 21.91 billion pieces, up 11.8%, 9.9%, 6.4%, a decrease of 3.7, 3.5, 3.0 percentage points compared with the same period last year. According to a survey of key enterprises by the China Cotton Textile Industry Association, the yarn output from January to October fell by 2.3% year-on-year.

China is a big country in textile production and export.

Textile industry transformation

According to the current situation of China's textile industry, textile experts propose that enterprises should carry out strategic transformation at the following three levels:

First of all, enterprises should strengthen management, increase the rapid response mechanism, and take the route of small batches, multiple varieties, fast delivery and high quality. The director of the human resources department of a cotton factory in Wuxi believes that under the circumstances that the external environment is becoming more and more unfavorable to the cotton textile industry, there is no way out of the low-level and repeated construction. In the 1990s, international spinning technology developed on the basis of single-machine automation and continued production. The European full-automatic spinning workshop employs only 6 people per million spindles, while most of China's cotton textile enterprises employ 10,000 spindles Around 200 people. The developed countries represented by the United States have generally established rapid response systems among retail, apparel, and textile factories. After receiving the order from the garment factory, the textile mill can provide the required fabric within 12 hours, while the average Chinese enterprise needs more than 12 days. It is necessary to strengthen investment in research and development, adhere to the route of small batches, multiple varieties, fast delivery, and high quality, try our best to meet customer needs, and focus on customer demand as the organization of production.

Secondly, the new projects of the company focus on the upgrading of technical equipment and achieve leapfrog development. Equipment level is the basic condition for the competitiveness of the textile industry. Therefore, cotton textile enterprises should invest limited funds in the use of advanced cotton textile technology, support the promotion of the use of new and efficient cotton textile process equipment, automatic doffing spun yarn, compact Spinning technology and combined coarse and fine machines. For example, Xinjiang Xinsai Co., Ltd., a new compact spinning and combing 50,000 spindle production project, introduced the most modern production equipment, the most advanced processing equipment and the most advanced inspection equipment, and directly cut into the high-end cotton spinning market, gaining sources. Constant orders.

Third, we must gradually improve the level of mechatronics. Due to the wide application of electronic technology and computer technology, international cotton textile technology has developed rapidly in the direction of high quality, high yield, automation and continuity. Enterprises must continue to advance technological progress, gradually increase the level of cotton textile machinery mechatronics, realize online monitoring of process parameters, and replace traditional technical equipment of cotton textile technology with automation, continuity and intelligence, so as to improve labor productivity and product quality. Competitiveness and economic benefits.

China's textile industry is still in the primary stage of the four stages of industrial development-the production factor-oriented stage. At this stage, industrial development mainly relies on the advantages of factors of production, which is easy to show the achievements of the industry, but it is also very fragile. The reduction or relative weakening of the comparative advantage of factors of production is likely to bring heavy damage to industrial development. This forces the Chinese textile industry to accelerate the transformation of the expansion mode, which mainly depends on the number of production factors and low cost, to the development mode, which mainly depends on quality improvement, and actively implement system reforms to greatly improve the efficiency of resource allocation.

Foreign experience in the textile industry

China's textile industry is not as good as Europe and the United States in terms of brand marketing, and its human resources are slightly inferior to Vietnam, Laos and India, and it is in an embarrassing position. For China's textile industry to successfully transform, it must break the game, and it must jump out of the country and learn from companies that have gone through this path.

Taiwan

Twenty years ago, Taiwan's textile industry was slumped when it was transformed. But by 2012, for every three yuan in foreign exchange earned in Taiwan, one yuan depended on textiles. Their method was functional cloth. The Taiwanese textile industry researched the technology under the iron house and researched the top functional cloths of light, warm, perspiration, fire prevention, cold protection, and UV protection. Their advanced "settlement mode" allows all participants to make money, while maintaining strong flexibility and anti-risk capabilities, and creating the world's horrible competitiveness of Taiwan's functional cloth.

United States

In China, Nike is as well-known as KFC. If Taiwan is transformed from the technology side, the United States will find the fulcrum from the brand side. Through brands, consumers can obtain unique benefits and experiences. Rational experience is based on products, and emotional experience is based on emotions. The same piece of clothing, affixed with the Nike trademark, immediately increased in value, which is competitiveness!

Spain

Spain has the world's number one clothing group, lnditex, and its reason for being number one in the world is because of ZARA. In its 200-mile production base, it has concentrated 20 highly automated dyeing and cutting centers and 500 foundry terminal factories. Its core competitiveness comes from strong resource integration capabilities. It has spent billions of euros to build a strategic core, and has realized a "quick, small, and multiple" market strategy, leading the trend of personalized clothing. ^[3]