Digitalization Promotes High-Quality Development Of Cotton Industry

Big data throughout the industry chain serves more than 5000 cotton related enterprises and cotton farmers

Digitalization promotes high-quality development of cotton industry (consumption kaleidoscope)

"Here, we can see and track the data information, including the planting area of China's major cotton producing areas, real-time purchase volume of seed cotton, real-time sales dynamics, real-time processing volume of cotton, outbound volume and other data information." Ding Haowu, secretary of the Party Committee and chairman of the National Cotton Trading Market, said at the big data center of China's cotton industry chain in Beijing.

China is the world's largest cotton consumer and producer. According to the monitoring data of the China Cotton Association of the All China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperation, the total cotton output in 2023 will reach 5.855 million tons, of which Xinjiang is the largest cotton planting base in China, with an output of 5.51 million tons.

The national cotton trading market is a member enterprise of the China Supply and Marketing Group affiliated to the All China Supply and Marketing Cooperative, which mainly serves the national cotton macro-control and promotes the standardized development of the industry. It has created four service platforms, including cotton trading, regulatory logistics, capital services, and data information, to empower the upstream and downstream enterprises of the cotton industry chain, Promote the digital operation of the whole cotton industry chain. At present, the total number of cotton related enterprises served by the national cotton trading market has exceeded 5000, accounting for more than 90% of the total number of cotton related enterprises nationwide.

"In the past, we needed to go to the bank to sign an agreement to apply for a loan. The approval time was at least one week, and the loan took one month." Jing Yuliang, a cotton grower in the Second Company of the 102nd Regiment of the Sixth Agricultural Division of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, said that now he just needs to open the cotton farmers' comprehensive service platform on his mobile phone. From submitting application materials to receiving the loan, it can be completed in one day.

Relying on the big data advantage of the whole cotton industry chain, the national cotton trading market cooperates with many banks to provide the vast number of cotton farmers with digital services such as financial loan services, price information query, sales information query, processing plant docking, etc.

In the Fifth Cotton Processing Plant of Xinjiang Shawan Lihua Cotton Industry Co., Ltd., the factory director Wang Li demonstrated the whole process of ginning plant purchasing seed cotton. When cotton farmers swipe their ID cards when selling seed cotton, the digital system of the ginning plant will print a traceability card with 18 digits. "Through this ginning production line, after we process seed cotton into lint, the system automatically associates the traceability card and generates a 32-bit barcode, which is the unique 'ID card' of cotton bales. With this' ID card ', cotton enters the storage, logistics and trade links." Wang Li said.

"Here, the information of cotton growers is related to the processing and quality data of lint, and the cotton bale barcode will follow the whole process of processing, inspection, warehousing, logistics, and textile of the cotton bale, so as to trace the whole process from seed cotton to lint," said Shan Xu, deputy general manager of Beijing Zhimian Technology Co., Ltd., the national cotton trading market, At present, there are more than 900 ginning plants qualified for target price reform, acquisition and processing in Xinjiang, of which more than 800 cotton processing enterprises have participated in the quality traceability pilot, involving more than 100000 cotton farmers.

"We use the existing big data of the whole cotton industry chain to serve more than 5000 cotton related enterprises and the vast number of cotton farmers." Ding Haowu introduced that the next step is to accelerate the process of cotton industry digitization, focus on improving the depth and breadth of the integration of big data and cotton industry chain, and further explore the application scenarios of big data in all links of the cotton industry chain, New business forms and new models are generated.

Wang Jianhong, executive vice president and secretary-general of China Cotton Association, said that at present, the digitalization process of the cotton industry covers multiple links such as planting, processing, warehousing and inspection, providing information services for cotton farmers, ginners and operators. In the future, it will extend to the back end of the industrial chain, and promote the high-quality development of the cotton industry through the data collection, analysis and comprehensive services of the cotton industry chain. (Reporter Qi Zhiming)

(Source: People's Daily)