Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China's textile industry has focused on building the strategic goal of “textile power” and actively carried out work such as structural adjustment, brand building, technological upgrading, talent cultivation and sustainable development, further consolidating the sustainable competitiveness of the industry. . Facing the new normal of economic development and the new industrial situation, China's textile industry actively uses global resources, vigorously promotes the transformation of scientific and technological innovation achievements in the industry, continuously encourages brand building, and resolutely practices the concept of green development. The whole industry is building a “textile power”. The road is steadily moving forward.

Production scale grows steadily

In order to meet the domestic and international textile and apparel market demand, the production scale of China's textile industry has continued to expand in recent years. In 2012, China's textile fiber processing volume was 45.4 million tons. By 2016, China's textile fiber processing volume was 54.2 million tons. The average annual growth rate during the five years was 4.5%, accounting for more than 50% of the total global fiber processing.

Judging from the output indicators of major categories of products in China's textile industry, it also shows that the scale is constantly expanding. According to the statistics of the National Bureau of Statistics, in 2012, China's total social yarn output was 29.884 million tons, cloth output was 84.89 billion meters, and chemical fiber production was 38.374 million tons. By 2016, China's total social yarn output reached 37.326 million tons. The output reached 90.68 billion meters and the chemical fiber output reached 49.437 million tons. During the past five years, the compound annual growth rates of yarn, cloth and chemical fiber production were 5.8%, 1.7% and 6.5%, respectively.

Export maintains competitive advantage

China is a major textile and garment exporting country and has always played a pivotal role in the international textile and apparel trade arena. In recent years, although the scale of China's textile and apparel exports has been affected by factors such as the downturn in the international market, it still occupies an important position in the international market and maintains certain international competitive advantages. According to China's customs data, in 2012, China's textile and apparel exports amounted to 262.503 billion US dollars, accounting for 12.8% of the country's export trade; in 2016, China's textile and apparel exports reached 2,701.20 billion US dollars, accounting for 12.9% of the country's export trade. In the past five years, China’s textile and apparel exports have grown at an average annual growth rate of 0.7%. According to the statistics of the WTO, in recent years, China's textile and apparel exports accounted for about 37% of the world's total textile and apparel exports, ranking first in the world.

Investment growth remains stable

Affected by factors such as stable development environment and strengthened industrial structure adjustment, the investment confidence of China's textile industry continued to increase and investment growth remained stable. In 2012, the total amount of fixed assets investment completed in the whole industry was 779.302 billion yuan, accounting for 2.08% of the total fixed assets investment of the whole society in the same period. In 2016, the total amount of fixed assets investment completed in the whole industry reached 1,238.375 billion yuan, accounting for the whole society's fixed assets in the same period. 2.12% of the total investment. In the past five years, the compound annual growth rate of fixed assets investment in China's textile industry was 13.29%, which was higher than the average annual growth rate of fixed assets investment of the whole society by 0.5 percentage points.

Continuous improvement in operational quality

In recent years, China's textile industry has actively carried out structural adjustments, strengthened the market's reaction capability, and continued to improve the quality and efficiency of the industry. The textile industry has accounted for the proportion of the country's main industrial business revenue and profit. According to the National Bureau of Statistics annual report data, in 2012, China's above-scale textile enterprises have completed the main business income of 573.361 billion yuan; in 2016, the above-scale textile enterprises completed the main business income of 7330.23 billion yuan, with an average annual compound growth rate of 6.3%. . In 2016, the proportion of the main business income of textile enterprises above designated size in the industrial sector increased by 0.2 percentage points compared with 2012.

In 2012, China's textile enterprises above designated size realized a total profit of 339.21 billion yuan. In 2016, the total profit reached 400.36 billion yuan (fast data), with a compound annual growth rate of 4.2%, accounting for 5.5% of the national industrial profits. % increased to 5.8% in 2016. In the past five years, the average profit rate of the industry was 5.72%, which was higher than before. It also shows that the profitability of China's textile enterprises is steadily improving and the quality of operation is improving.

Structural adjustment continues to deepen

In 2016, the proportion of China's clothing, home textiles, and industrial fiber consumption was adjusted from 48.46:29.30:22.25 in 2012 to 45.57:27.68:26.75, and the application field of industrial textiles was further expanded. In 2016, China's chemical fiber output was 45.65 million tons, accounting for 84% of the total fiber processing in the country, 7 percentage points higher than in 2012, and the differentiation rate of chemical fiber products increased to about 60%. The chemical fiber variety structure has continued to improve, and the industrialization technology of high-performance fiber has also made a major breakthrough. At present, China has become the country with the widest coverage of high-performance fiber production in the world. A number of structural reinforcement materials have been developed using high-performance fibers. Semi-rigid fiberglass mesh warp-knitted materials have been successfully applied to the "Tiangong-1" spacecraft. Aramid honeycomb materials have been used in military and aerospace fields such as large aircrafts and helicopters. Wind turbine blades significantly reduce blade weight and extend service life.

The entire industry is not only continuously optimized in terms of product structure, but also in the adjustment of regional structure. The central and western regions of China, especially Xinjiang, have become new investment hotspots in the textile and garment industry. At the same time, China's textile and apparel overseas investment has accelerated, and the key enterprises in the industry have actively built the manufacturing base of “China + neighboring countries” and began to penetrate into the high-end areas of the industrial chain in developed countries. Under the guidance of the “One Belt, One Road” national strategy, domestic key enterprises have accelerated the optimization of domestic production capacity and global resource integration, and the capacity cooperation has shown multi-regional, multi-form and multi-level advancement. After years of hard work, many companies have stood firm overseas and began to play a role in helping to promote the development of mutual benefit.

Technological innovation capability

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the textile industry has vigorously promoted technological innovation and transformation of achievements in the industry, increased investment in science and technology, and achieved a series of innovative achievements in various fields such as fiber materials, textiles, dyeing and finishing, industrial textiles, textile equipment and information technology. It has achieved breakthroughs in key and common technologies across the industry, and the industry's independent innovation capability, technical equipment level and product development capabilities have been improved. From 2012 to 2016, 17 achievements in the whole industry won the National Science and Technology Award. Among them, “Digital Packaged Dyeing Complete Technology Equipment” won the first prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award, and 643 achievements won the Science and Technology Progress Award of China Textile Industry Federation. A number of provincial and ministerial-level science and technology awards.

The processing technology and equipment level of textile products have been improved, and the integration of the two technologies has been carried out in depth. The advancement of textile technology and equipment such as compact spinning, jet vortex spinning, fine winding, automatic winding, etc. laid the foundation for the development of high-quality fabrics. The new spinning technology has reached 60% in the promotion of wool spinning enterprises; fine printing, digital Printing technology has made great breakthroughs and promoted and applied in the industry. The textile machinery industry has further improved its technology innovation and product research and development capabilities through the combination of production, education and research. It has entered a new stage of introducing technology, digesting and localization, re-innovation and independent development and innovation. The domestic market share of domestic textile machinery has reached more than 70%. The functions of the enterprise management information system adapted to the management characteristics of the textile industry are becoming more and more perfect, and the modular application can be fully realized. The comprehensive coverage rate of the management information application of medium-sized and above enterprises in the textile industry reaches more than 75%.

Progress in brand development

In the past five years, the segmentation, differentiation and professional development of China's textile and apparel brand market has become an industry consensus. By optimizing the channel layout, changing the terminal form, and improving the consumer experience, the brand enterprises will deeply explore the brand market benefits; the synergy effect is more obvious. The internationalization development has been actively explored, the global resource allocation capability has been significantly improved, and the division of labor has been deepened, forming a brand that is stronger, better, and small and medium-sized. According to the changes in consumer demand, brand enterprises focus on improving the adaptability of brands and products to the market from the aspects of technological innovation, product innovation, design innovation, management innovation, service innovation, etc., actively from fashion aesthetics, taking functions, ecological protection, natural health, etc. Aspects meet new consumer demands.

The cultural appeal of the brand is actively improving.