Zhu Beina: Building a Cotton Textile Power in Challenges and Opportunities

In the future, the development of the cotton textile industry will focus on the two themes of technological development and sustainable development. It will intensify efforts in scientific and technological progress, industrial upgrading, structural adjustment, brand building, market expansion, and enhancement of benefits. In the next five years, the cotton textile industry will develop in terms of transformation, efficiency improvement and trade cooperation.

In the past few years, China's cotton textile industry has been committed to advancing the adjustment of product structure, accelerating technological progress and improving product innovation capabilities; committed to promoting industrial transformation and upgrading and transfer of industrial regions, and strengthening the benefits of industrial clusters; dedicated to the extension of the industry Cooperation with the upstream and downstream, promote the increase of value-added products, promote brand building and personnel training; commit to increase market expansion, strengthen industry self-discipline, and expand foreign exchanges.

Up to now, China's cotton textile industry has achieved good results, with stable output growth, various economic indicators have been greatly improved, and international competitiveness has been greatly enhanced.

First, in terms of capacity, as of the end of 2010, China had a total of 120 million ring-spinning spindles, 2.23 million rotor-spinners, and 1.26 million looms, an increase of 54.90%, 57.18%, and 31.10%, respectively, over 2005. According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, in 2010, China’s yarn production was 27.17 million tons, and cloth production was 80 billion meters. The State Development and Reform Commission Television and Telephone Conference announced that cotton consumption was 11 million tons. The statistics of China Chemical Fiber Association’s use of chemical fiber for cotton spinning industry For a total of 10 million tons, the yarn output converted from the fiber processing volume should be less than 21 million tons, which is different from the yarn output announced by the National Bureau of Statistics.

Second, in terms of imports and exports, the international competitiveness of China's cotton textile industry has gradually increased. In recent years, the total volume of China's cotton textile import and export trade has continued to grow, the level of export products has gradually increased, and the value chain has been upgraded. From 1995 to 2010, China’s import and export trade volume of cotton yarns has been a deficit. In 2010, the deficit amount reached the highest value of 587,000 tons in the calendar year, amounting to 960 million US dollars, reflecting the gaps in production yarns used in China and imported yarns. The objective reality of lower line costs. The trade surplus of China's cotton fabrics has increased year by year, and the trade balance between 2006 and 2008 has achieved double-digit growth. In 2010, the trade surplus amounted to US$7.02 billion, an increase of 78.6% over 2005. In 2010, exports of cotton fabrics reached 7.88 billion meters, a year-on-year increase of 20.2% and imports of 860 million meters, a year-on-year decrease of 7.7%. This shows that there is room for further improvement in the grades and types of cotton textiles.

Third, in terms of industrial upgrading, the transformation of China's cotton textile industry has been relatively rapid in the past five years. At present, the pace of technological transformation of enterprises has increased. The demand for fine-staple captains and automatic winders has increased rapidly. Ring spinning machines with high power consumption and low labor productivity and small rapier looms have been added to the update. Eliminate the ranks.

Fourth, in terms of brand building, China's cotton textile industry has also achieved good results. At present, China's spinning and weaving ability ranks first in the world, and it has the largest number of compact spinning, rotor spinning and high-speed shuttleless looms in the world. The degree of aggregation in the cotton textile industry has further increased. In 2010, among 12,000 cotton spinning enterprises, The statistics of the first 100 companies in the China Cotton Textile Industry Association's production capacity reached 30% of the entire industry, laying a good foundation for the company's brand; China's 35 cotton textile company's 35 product brands have won the title of China's brand-name products.

From January to April this year, the overall situation of China's cotton fabrics is relatively good, but from the current situation, the situation in May is not optimistic. From the perspective of market operations, prices of cotton and cotton yarns remained strong until March, but they both fell rapidly in April and May and entered the slowdown in raw materials in June. The continuous decline in the price of raw materials has seriously affected the market confidence of enterprises. The current situation of “high-priced inventory and low-priced products” in the industry has seriously affected the overall profitability. Textile companies are actively responding to such measures as product development and application of new raw materials.

We are soberly aware of some problems encountered in the development of the industry: raw material prices have fluctuated greatly, which has caused cotton textile companies to fall into awkward situations; the unstable, unbalanced and revaluation pressures on the recovery of the international market are inevitable for China's cotton textile enterprises. The primary problems to be faced are: the dramatic increase in the production costs of the cotton textile industry, the shortage of labor, etc. The problems are also becoming increasingly acute; the most critical is the tax burden on enterprises, and the taxation of the cotton spinning industry has caused huge profits for companies. Zoom out. We earnestly hope that all parties will work together to stabilize cotton prices, boost confidence in the industry, overcome current difficulties, and promote stable and healthy development of the industry.

In the future, the development of the cotton textile industry will focus on the two themes of technological development and sustainable development. It will intensify efforts in scientific and technological progress, industrial upgrading, structural adjustment, brand building, market expansion, and enhancement of benefits. In the next five years, the cotton textile industry will develop in terms of transformation, efficiency enhancement and trade cooperation, and actively seek policy support.

In terms of transformation and efficiency improvement, we believe that the total processing volume of textile fibers will continue to grow, spinning capacity and yarn production will also increase, and the corresponding consumption of cotton will still increase. The focus of development is to strive to improve product quality and quality, increase the scientific and technological content of products, increase the level of advanced equipment, increase labor productivity, accelerate the elimination of high-energy-consuming equipment, and take the road of intelligent, low-consumption, sustainable and green development. The scientific management model will increase the efficiency of enterprises, realize the orderly transfer of industries and promote the coordinated development of the region.

In the area of ​​international trade cooperation, we will actively develop mutually beneficial multilateral trade. As for the various trade breach problems that have emerged, it is recommended that relevant departments should impose sanctions.

At present, domestic cotton prices have been lower than international cotton prices for some time. I think this is a good time to cancel sliding tariffs. Under the circumstance that the import quota cannot be cancelled, we hope that the quota can be more inclined to the textile production enterprises in order to improve the international competitiveness of China's cotton textile industry.

Looking ahead, the cotton textile industry is facing a complex and changeable environment. In the post-crisis era in which both opportunities and challenges coexist, we have full and firm confidence. We must take the national macro-policy as the direction, taking the “12th Five-year Development Plan for Textile Industry” and the “12th Five-Year Plan for China's cotton textile industry”. "Development Plan" as a goal, unite all forces of the entire industry to the "strong textile cotton country".