Difficulties And Great Progress Have Been Made. The Quality Of Cotton Spinning Industry Is Developing To A Higher Level.

[foreword] in 2019, faced with all kinds of difficulties such as cotton price fluctuation, market shrinkage, order reduction, labor cost rising and so on, China's cotton textile enterprises insisted on practicing internal strength, accelerating the transformation and upgrading, changing the backward image of low efficiency, and promoting the transformation and upgrading of the industry through continuous improvement of the digitalization and intellectualization of the technical equipment, and moving towards the direction of sustainable development. At the same time, the overall industry policy has been improving. Reserve cotton has been stocking and issuing quotas to ensure the demand of cotton for small and medium-sized enterprises. The new cotton market has been put into the market to stabilize market cotton prices. Industry associations and local governments have actively supported the transformation and upgrading of enterprises, and enhanced their capability of independent innovation, which has effectively promoted the overall quality development of the cotton textile industry.

• News review: cotton production fell by 3.5%

　　 In 2019, the total cotton planting area in China was 3 million 339 thousand and 200 hectares, a decrease of 15 thousand and 200 hectares compared with 2018 and a decrease of 0.5%. In 2019, the total output of cotton in China was 5 million 889 thousand tons, a decrease of 213 thousand tons compared with 2018, a decrease of 3.5%. Among them, Xinjiang's cotton output is 5 million 2 thousand tons, accounting for 84.9% of the country's total. The cotton output per unit area in China was 1763.7 kg / ha, a decrease of 55.6 kg / ha compared with 2018 and a decrease of 3.1%.

Comment: cotton planting is concentrated in Xinjiang.

From the overall planting area, the cotton planting area in 2019 was 3 million 339 thousand and 200 hectares, a decrease of 15 thousand and 200 hectares compared with 2018 and a decrease of 0.5%.

　　 The efficiency of cotton mining in Xinjiang is high.

According to the regional perspective, cotton planting is further concentrated in the cotton growing areas of the dominant region of Xinjiang. The cotton growing area in Xinjiang, the largest cotton producing area in China, has increased by 49 thousand and 200 hectares over the year of 2018, an increase of 2%, accounting for 76.1% of the total proportion of the whole country, representing an increase of 1.8 percentage points over the previous year. In 2019, Xinjiang's cotton output accounted for 84.9% of the whole country, which was 1.2 percentage points higher than that of last year. This is mainly due to the implementation of the cotton target price subsidy policy in Xinjiang, which has aroused the enthusiasm of cotton growers and made Xinjiang cotton planting area steadily increase.

In other cotton areas, the planting area of cotton decreased by 64 thousand and 400 hectares compared with 2018, and decreased by 7.5%. Among them, the planting area in the Yangtze River valley cotton area decreased by 32 thousand and 400 hectares compared with 2018, and decreased by 8.7%. The planting area of cotton growing area in the Yellow River basin decreased by 28 thousand and 100 hectares compared with 2018, and decreased by 6.2%.

In 2019, the cotton yield per unit area decreased by 1763.7 kg / ha, 55.6 kg / ha compared with the previous year, a decrease of 3.1%. The decrease of yield per unit area is mainly affected by disastrous climate. During the critical period of cotton growth, natural disasters such as wind sand, high temperature, hail and low-temperature freezing occur frequently in major cotton producing areas such as Xinjiang, Hebei, Jiangxi, Shandong and Hubei.

• News review: cotton import quota increased by 800 thousand tons

In April 12th, the NDRC issued a notice on the application of import tariff quotas for the preferential tariff rates of cotton tariff quotas in 2019. The announcement shows that the amount of cotton import slide tax quota is 800 thousand tons, all of which are non state trading quotas.

Comment: reduce raw material cost and ensure cotton demand.

In 2019, the landing of the cotton quota increase policy brought the "timely rain" to the textile enterprises using imported cotton and solved the urgent need of the cotton enterprises. This is especially true for domestic textile and garment export enterprises targeting the global high-end market. In recent years, the export orders for Pima cotton, Australian fine staple cotton and Egyptian cotton have been increasing year by year. The timely issuance of cotton sliding allowance quotas will help enterprises stabilize overseas high-end strategic customers and seize the overseas high-end market.

At the same time, the issuance of quotas is also conducive to reducing the cost of cotton production. At present, the cost of raw materials occupies a relatively large proportion in production costs, and imported cotton has obvious advantages over domestic cotton prices. Purchasing foreign cotton from textile enterprises is conducive to achieving fair competition between national textile mills in Southeast Asia.

Industry experts believe that it is very sensible to use quotas to adjust the gap of raw material supply in the domestic textile industry, so that foreign materials with high cost performance can be used by domestic enterprises. The spread of cotton import quota has made the difference between domestic and foreign cotton smaller and smaller.

In addition, the long-term stability of cotton policy helps to maintain the sustainable development of the textile and garment industry. Through many years of development, China's textile and garment industry has formed a competitive advantage through the upstream and downstream industries chain, and has met the rapid response and quality requirements of international procurement with a strong adaptability. More and more excellent textile and garment enterprises have completed the development process of the whole industry chain production enterprises through continuous transformation and upgrading. Under the environment of globalized resource allocation, effective resource allocation of raw materials such as cotton will help stabilize domestic production and operation and expand reproduction of cotton spinning enterprises.

• News review: reserve cotton wheel into 500 thousand tons

In November 14th, the State Grain and material reserve bureau and the Ministry of Finance issued a notice: in order to strengthen the management of central cotton reserves, further optimize the reserve structure and improve the quality of reserves, we decided to turn in about 500 thousand tons of new cotton, and the rotation time is the national statutory working day from December 2, 2019 to March 31, 2020.

Comment: stabilize supply and demand and support cotton city's "umbrella"

After the completion of the stockpile of the reserve cotton, the market's speculation on the storage of cotton wheels continued until the news of the 500 thousand tonnes of Xinjiang cotton was landed.

On the whole, the policy of putting cotton into rotation has embodied a "stable" character. First is the number of rounds. When the policy came into operation, the new cotton market came into being, and the cotton stocks in the spot market were relatively high. 500 thousand tons of imported cotton stocks both filled the national treasury and reduced the flux of the market cotton and enhanced the flexibility of the market. Next is the round price. According to the announcement, the maximum price of the bid price (to the library price) is linked to the spot price of domestic cotton and linked up to a certain proportion and adjusted once a week. During the rotation period, when the price difference between inside and outside cotton is worse than 3 yuan per day for 800 consecutive days, the transaction will be suspended. When the difference between the inside and outside cotton price drops to 800 yuan / ton, the transaction will be restarted. This design not only prevents the futures market from rising sharply due to the storage of cotton wheels, but also does not need to worry that domestic cotton prices are significantly higher than the international cotton prices, resulting in the reduction of textile export competitiveness.

The market also showed a calm attitude towards the rotation of cotton reserves, and experts said that the rotation of cotton reserves is more like an easing policy for easing the market. Cotton prices will not be greatly boosted, the actual role or more inclined to delineate part of the circulation of inventory, good supply and demand stability of the entire industry chain.

• News review: imports of Pakistan yarn enjoy zero tariff

In April 28th, China and Pakistan signed the protocol on the revision of the free trade agreement between the government of the People's Republic of China and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan government, which came into effect in December 1, 2019. Pakistan cotton, cotton yarn, grey cloth and other exports to China to achieve "zero tariff."

Comment: tariff cancellation to stimulate Pakistan cotton yarn into China

International traders generally believe that the "zero tariff" will make China's imports of Pakistan cotton yarn rapidly surpass India yarn, and even challenge Vietnam's status. India cotton, cotton yarn and grey cloth are likely to be forced to gradually withdraw from the Chinese market.

The cancellation of tariff will stimulate and promote Pakistan cotton yarn entry, but objectively speaking, it is unrealistic to assert that Pakistan cotton yarn is growing violently. The main reasons are as follows: first, the Pakistan cotton mill in 2019/2020 needs a lot of high priced imports of American cotton, Brazil cotton, West African cotton, Central Asian cotton and so on, coupled with the increase in labor costs, resulting in the price competitiveness of cotton yarn is not strong. Cotton production and quality in Pakistan declined sharply in 2019/2020, and the dividend of low cost of raw materials in Pakistan spinning mill disappeared.

Two, Pakistan cotton mill and cotton yarn importing enterprises should separate "a cup of soup" from the advantages of "tariff cancellation", but Pakistan mills and exporters will not give up profits to buyers. According to the survey, since December, the export price of Pakistan has risen by 2%~3% as a result of China's demand driven by the Sino Pakistani free trade agreement. Chinese weaving factories and traders reflect the difficulty of accepting prices.

Three, the trend of RMB depreciation in 2020 is becoming more and more obvious. The cost of imported cotton yarn is rising.

• News review: spinning workshop is more intelligent.

In September 3rd, the China Federation of textile industry announced the list of "intelligent manufacturing pilot enterprises in textile industry" in 2019. Yu Dahua, Anhui Huamao and Fujian Changyuan three cotton textile enterprises were selected in Wuhan. In April of this year, Suzhou Lun cotton textile transformation upgraded traditional spinning. The first stage project of the green intelligent textile integrated chemical plant built by Wei Qiao textile has been completed. The equipment has basically been installed and has entered the commissioning stage.

Comment: advanced equipment boosts intelligent production.

"Thousand people yarn, 10000 cloth" is the old impression of people's traditional textile industry. For a long time, "intelligent manufacturing" is the core of industry transformation and upgrading and high quality development. In order to enhance the competitiveness of the international market, China's cotton textile enterprises have never stopped developing. In 2019, many cotton spinning enterprises started to solve the problems of labor shortage and low efficiency, and set up a modern intelligent factory to open a new era of intelligent production.

　　 Wei Qiao textile intelligent production workshop.

For many spinning enterprises in China, the workshop of less than 10 employees is no longer rare. Modern spinning intelligent workshop even implements black light production. At present, the Wuhan Yu Dahua textile and Garment Group Co., Ltd. has owned the first intelligent production line of 100 thousand spindles, intelligent production line of 15000 tons, intelligent clothing production line and other intelligent manufacturing projects. The original intelligent spinning production line of 100 thousand ingot in China, with its originality, intelligence and advanced nature, has pushed the intelligent spinning to a whole new height.

Zhen Lun cotton spinning is committed to tearing off dirty and dirty labels. Now, in the production workshop of the transformation of Lun cotton spinning, relying on the automatic doffing roving machine, the workload of pulling, lifting, lifting and inserting each class will return to zero. Moreover, the matching of full automatic doffing roving frame and roving conveyor system has realized the connection of thickness and fineness, and can accurately transfer different types of full-barrel roving to different spinning frames.

Of course, the "intelligent manufacturing" in the cotton textile industry is still at the stage of "3 missed lessons", which is still far from the "industrial 4" and the real "Ai". For the textile industry, enterprises still need to be steadfast and step by step to enhance the level of intelligence.

• News review: technological innovation of cotton spinning enterprises

In May 26th, the key technology and application of jet vortex spinning pure cotton high count yarn, jointly undertaken by Yueda Textile Group and Jiangnan University, was appraise through scientific and technological achievements. In June 11th, Shandong Zaozhuang Haiyang Dynasty Textile Co., Ltd. independently developed 4 new products through appraisal. In June 28th, the scientific research achievement of Dai Yin group was awarded the first prize of the Tai'an science and Technology Progress Award "120 key technologies and industrialization of hemp spinning".

Comment: independent research and development to increase the added value of products.

In the background of China's textile industry entering the stage of transformation and upgrading, the profit model of pure cotton yarn based on scale and price competition has gradually come to an end. Cotton textile enterprises constantly enhance technological innovation, speed up the pace of product research and development, enhance the quality of development, and improve the added value of products in order to find new profit growth points.

Yueda Textile Group cooperated with Jiangnan University to develop the key technology and application of jet spinning spinning pure cotton high count yarn, realizing the development and industrialization of the pure cotton air-jet vortex spinning line with fineness of 7.3tex (80 yarn), breaking through the bottleneck of jet vortex spinning high purity cotton yarn, and having innovative and independent intellectual property.

Under the trend of technology, green and fashionable textile industry, Zaozhuang Haiyang Dynasty Textile Co., Ltd. has independently developed 4 new products, including aramid antistatic three proofing fabrics, light and high elastic and high recovery rate denim fabrics, environmental printing denim fabrics, and eco indigo dyed denim fabrics.

The Limited by Share Ltd of Shandong Dai Yin Textile Group has produced a series of hemp fiber pure spinning, blended yarn, high-grade shirts, T-shirts and other garments by using the technology of "120 British hemp spinning technology and industrialization". The Renoir-Hemp brand has been put into the European and American high end market. Some of the yarn varieties have been used for shirts, underwear and socks products of the army, public security, customs, marine, etc. in the past three years, the output value of the products has reached 250 million yuan. At the same time, the technology saves 30% of water than the traditional chemical degumming method, reduces the dosage of chemical agents by 20%, improves the spinning efficiency by nearly 40%, and accumulatively achieves energy saving and consumption reduction of nearly 5 million yuan.

• News review: global layout of leading enterprises

In June this year, the Jiangsu lufa textile Limited by Share Ltd announced the outward investment announcement that it would invest in Indonesia to build an annual 66 million m high grade woven fabric. In October, the launching ceremony of the Wuxi Ethiopia cotton textile group Ethiopia plant was launched at the same time in Wuxi and Ethiopia. The project will be the largest production base of the Ethiopia cotton textile industry, and plans to invest and build 300 thousand spindles.

Comment: overseas expansion strengthens global competitiveness

2019 is the year when the global textile industry and trade pattern has changed significantly. For cotton textile enterprises, facing the increasingly complex international trade environment, accelerating the global layout of enterprises is of strategic importance.

　　 Signing ceremony of Wuxi Yi cotton Ethiopia textile project investment agreement.

China's textile and garment industry has gradually lost its cost advantage in exports, and the major textile and garment importing countries such as the United States and Japan have reduced orders in China. In addition, enterprises also take into account factors such as reducing trade frictions and evading tariffs. Finally, the phenomenon that China's textile and garment enterprises began to migrate factories to Southeast Asian countries with more advantages in labor cost has become a trend.

For the joint venture shares, the project's investment and construction will help to extend the core competitiveness of the company in the field of high-grade woven fabrics, achieve the layout of the global production base, and make full use of the advantages of tariff and labor resources to enhance the global competitiveness of enterprises.

For Wuxi Yi cotton, the textile industry capacity cooperation with Ethiopia and the internationalization of "going out" development will help to achieve the new growth point and profit point of enterprises, help enterprises transform from inward to outward, and effectively use capacity cooperation to realize transformation and upgrading of automation and intelligent transformation of Wuxi cotton, and maintain Wuxi's cotton textile industry's leading and benchmarking position in the domestic textile industry.

• News review: highlights of yarn exhibitions

On March 12th ~14, 2019 China International Textile yarn (Chun Xia) exhibition was held at the National Convention and Exhibition Center (Shanghai). On September 25th ~27, the 2019 China International Textile yarn (Qiu Dong) exhibition was held at the National Convention and Exhibition Center (Shanghai), with an exhibition area of 26500 square meters. A total of more than 540 high-quality fiber yarn enterprises from 14 countries and regions participated in the exhibition.

Comment: the source of industry is singing the song of environmental protection.

The China International yarn and textile exhibition, founded in 2004, has become more mature after more than ten years' development. The new ideas and trends released from the upper reaches of the textile industry constantly guide the market and industry to have unlimited imagination for future life. Whether as exhibitors or purchasers, it can be seen here that fiber yarn as the source of the industry is how the fashion charm is affecting the entire industry chain.

　　 2019 autumn and winter yarn exhibition site exhibits.

2019 China International Textile yarn exhibition is not only a trial site for new products of various enterprises, but also a vane for reflecting the trend of the market. The outstanding feature of this year's yarn exhibition is that sustainable development starts from the source of the industry and runs through the entire textile industry chain.

With the rising of new forces, consumers are becoming more and more interested in wearable, environmentally friendly and high quality products. They also pay more attention to the production process of a finished product. They regard fast food as an unsustainable product and take green sustainability as a new fashion attitude.

At the exhibition, green, environmentally friendly and sustainable development of recycled cellulose fibers and various recycling products have been a perfect closed loop for the green textile industry. In the face of more stringent environmental regulations and changes in consumption concept, many textile enterprises are displaying circular yarns, which give new life to fabric waste, and the production process also adopts an efficient and environmentally friendly dyeing process.