Industrial Process: Economic Pulse Behind A Garment

Clothes, food, housing and transportation are the four necessities of people's livelihood, and clothes rank first.

For ordinary people, the textile and clothing industry is a livelihood industry directly related to clothing, and also an important part of the manufacturing industry. In 2023, Shandong will accelerate the high-quality development of industrial economy, and the added value of industries above designated size will increase by 7.1% year on year, of which the added value of manufacturing will increase by 7.8% year on year.

From a piece of silk to a piece of cloth, and then to a piece of clothing, how can the "warp and weft" link up the good life of thousands of families and draw an uplifting development curve?

Let's start with two stories.

The first story is about innovation. With first-class technology, traditional industries can also become sunrise industries.

In China's 41 industrial classifications, the textile industry wastewater discharge ranks third, second only to papermaking and chemical industry. The supercritical carbon dioxide water free dyeing technology for textile materials independently developed by Qingdao Jifa Group can be used for even and fast dyeing without water, chemical additives and waste water discharge. It is a subversive green environmental protection dyeing technology.

In the future, Jifa Group can provide the industry with production equipment, new dyes and operation and maintenance services of anhydrous dyeing technology. According to preliminary estimates, when the application of this technology in the Chinese market reaches 1%, there will be an output value of 100 billion yuan; If it reaches 10%, there will be a trillion level market size.

The second story is about employment. The textile industry is deeply related to the primary, secondary and tertiary industries and is an important force to absorb employment.

Weiqiao Textile, a subsidiary of Weiqiao Venture Group, ranked first among the top 100 private enterprises in Shandong in attracting employment in 2023, is the largest cotton textile manufacturer in China. More than 90% of the employees of Weiqiao Venture Group come from rural areas. The employment platform provided by the enterprise enables ordinary migrant workers to become new industrial workers, and radiates and drives the surrounding secondary and tertiary industries, driving the urban construction of the industrial park, providing solid industrial support for new urbanization and rural revitalization.

In 2022, the operating income of Weiqiao Venture Group ranked first in China's cotton textile industry.

The two stories superficially reflect the value of the textile and clothing industry in serving the national economy and the people's livelihood, which is also closely related to the transformation and upgrading of Shandong's manufacturing industry.

Promote advantages

Expand the "circle of friends" of the industrial chain

On the morning of January 22, the second session of the 14th People's Congress of Shandong Province was opened. Governor Zhou Naixiang made a report on the work of the government. The report shows that in 2023, the industrial upgrading of Shandong Province will create new advantages. The advanced manufacturing industry accelerated its upgrading. Cultivate 11 symbolic industrial chains and 10 provincial advanced manufacturing clusters. The number of national SME characteristic industrial clusters has reached 15, and 299 new "little giants" have been added.

The textile and clothing industry chain is one of the 11 symbolic industry chains that Shandong focuses on building. In recent years, centering on the development of the textile and clothing industry chain, Shandong has successively issued policies to support the textile and clothing industry to optimize and upgrade the supply chain of the industry chain, and continue to consolidate and enhance the advantages and core competitiveness of the entire industry chain of the textile industry.

Taking Binzhou City, where Weiqiao is headquartered, as an example, while taking the leading enterprises as the leader, promoting the formation of the "one core and three fulcrums" industrial cluster development layout, the local government has accelerated the formation of a close business community between the main enterprises of the industrial chain and local upstream and downstream enterprises in all aspects of production and operation. In 2022, Binzhou textile and clothing industry cluster will achieve an operating income of 173.8 billion yuan.

From 2022, the modern light industry and textile industry will be listed as one of the "top ten" industries in the transformation of old and new drivers, and policies will be issued to support the high-quality development of this traditional industry, to last year's provincial conference on accelerating the high-quality development of industrial economy, it was proposed to focus on 11 landmark industrial chains to strengthen advanced manufacturing. It is self-evident that giving full play to the advantages of Shandong's textile industry, such as its huge size, solid foundation, complete chain and complete elements, is of great importance to further consolidate the "stability" of Shandong's industrial development.

A thread connects the world. The textile and clothing industry also plays an important role in Shandong's foreign trade. In 2023, Shandong's export of clothing to countries jointly building the "Belt and Road" will grow by 17.6%. Countries jointly building the "Belt and Road" are more closely connected with the supply chain of Shandong's industrial chain. 57% of Shandong's intermediate products are exported to countries jointly building the "Belt and Road", of which chemical fiber textile raw materials increased by 117.4%. Shandong Haopin, which is going global, is "tailoring" for global customers.

Heavy innovation

Promote industrial transformation and breakthrough

Last year, the Action Plan for Technological Transformation and Upgrading of Traditional Industries in Shandong Province (2023-2025) was issued, which clearly defined the working ideas of "Five Modernizations and Five Promotions" for six competitive industries, including textile and clothing, and effectively accelerated the leap forward of traditional industries to high-end, intelligent, green, clustered and service-oriented.

Many enterprises in Shandong textile and garment industry have been actively engaged in the research and development of new technologies, new processes, new models and new formats for many years, and have made a series of excellent achievements. For example, in order to accelerate the green and intelligent transformation, Weiqiao Textile has built a green and intelligent printing and dyeing upgrading and transformation project, which can achieve real-time online detection, information storage, management and analysis of the whole process, and realize the digital management of the whole life cycle of printing and dyeing products. With wisdom, Weiqiao Textile designs and develops more than 3000 new products every year.

In addition, leading enterprises such as Ruyi, Campina, Handu Clothing House and Joyful Home Textile have also begun to transform from intelligent manufacturing to intelligent service. A series of actions are gradually rewriting people's long-standing stereotype of low value-added, high energy consumption, labor-intensive "traditional industries" in the textile and clothing industry. Xia Lingmin, secretary-general of China Textile Industry Federation, pointed out that conforming to the trend of digital economy development and accelerating the process of digital transformation and development is an inevitable choice for building a modern textile industry system and achieving high-quality development.

According to the work report of Shandong Provincial Government in 2024, Shandong will focus on metallurgy, chemical industry, light industry, building materials, machinery, textile and clothing and other key industries, and implement about 12000 technological transformation projects with an investment of more than 5 million yuan.

This is another acceleration in Shandong's efforts to promote the development of new industries. It is not just the textile and clothing industry. Shandong, which regards industry as the "number one project", has seen steady industrial operation in the past year, good growth in key areas, continuous optimization of production and marketing links, growing vitality, and accelerated industrial upgrading. In the future, we will work hard to lead the construction of a modern industrial system with scientific and technological innovation, and Shandong will rebuild new advantages of green, low-carbon, high-quality development.

Catch up on business

Create a "strong magnetic field" in manufacturing industry

In the textile and clothing industry, Shandong has been able to cultivate a number of leading enterprises in terms of scale and strength in the country, such as Weiqiao Textile, Dishang Group, Ruyi Group, Joyful Home Textile, Jifa Group, Lutai Textile, Dezhou Hengfeng, and so on, largely benefiting from a healthy business environment.

Action is the most powerful declaration: implement the innovation and improvement action of business environment, issue some opinions to support the high-quality development of private economy, release the list of top 100 private entrepreneurs for the first time, open the public number of entrepreneurs to provincial governors, and hold a forum for private entrepreneurs...... Shandong's efforts in continuously optimizing the development environment of private enterprises, Let private entrepreneurs invest in Shandong with more confidence, more satisfaction and more comfort.

In Caoxian County, Heze, taking advantage of the "e-commerce style", the Hanfu industry chain integrating original research and development, design and production, and online marketing, once captured 30% of the national Hanfu market share, attracting a group of young people to return to their hometown to start their own businesses. Behind this, a pair of new "hands" for seeking practice can not be separated to open up a "green channel" for the construction of investment attraction projects.

In Zhoucun, Zibo, in order to help the development of the silk industry and the inheritance and innovation of silk time-honored enterprises, the local government has created a tax "physical examination report" for enterprises in combination with multi-dimensional data such as enterprise industry category, scale, tax payment, policy application, and tax related risks. With the support of preferential tax policies, "old enterprises" have been able to devote themselves to opening up a wider world for "great Chinese craftsmanship".

Xu Guangning, vice president of Shandong Textile and Clothing Industry Association, said that Shandong's textile industry can both go to heaven and go to the sea. The fabric of the five-star red flag landing on the moon comes from Yantai Taihe New Materials, and its manufacturing technology comes from Ruyi Textile, including the 10000 meter long cable of the "Endeavor" in the Mariana Trench, which is also produced by Shandong Textile Institute.

The work report of Shandong Provincial Government in 2024 also proposed that we should focus on reform in key areas, improve efficiency, strengthen confidence and optimize the environment through reform, continue to deepen market-oriented reform, optimize the service mechanism of private economy, create a first-class business environment, and effectively stimulate market and social vitality.

A piece of clothing is not only a consumer product that people cannot get around, but also related to the employment of many workers. Manufacturing a piece of clothing is a "low-end" or "high-end" industry, and the decisive factor is ultimately the development path. From the work report of the Shandong Provincial Government in 2024, we can see that Shandong has a fast pace of industrial upgrading, high-quality development and vitality!