Yarn, weaving, fabric

The textile industry is a traditional pillar industry of the national economy, an important livelihood industry and an industry with obvious international competitive advantages. It plays an important role in the prosperity of the market, the absorption of employment, the increase of farmers' income, the acceleration of urbanization and the promotion of social harmonious development. Since the 16th National Congress, the textile industry has thoroughly implemented the scientific outlook on development, firmly seized the major opportunity of joining the WTO, made full use of both international and domestic markets and resources, and actively promoted structural adjustment and industrial upgrading. The scale of the industry has continued to grow, the innovation ability has been continuously enhanced, the quality and efficiency have been greatly improved, the effect of energy conservation and emission reduction has been obvious, and the international competitiveness has been significantly improved. It has laid a solid foundation for the realization of textile power.

The scale and efficiency of the industry continue to grow

In the past ten years, China's textile industry has developed rapidly, forming an industrial system from upstream fiber raw material processing to clothing, household, and industrial end-product manufacturing. With the strong support of the state, the textile industry has deeply implemented the industry development plan, made full use of domestic and foreign markets and resources, accelerated structural adjustment and industrial upgrading, continued to expand the industrial scale, and steadily increased product output.

By the end of 2011, there were 35,891 enterprises above designated size with a total industrial output value of 5,478.7 billion yuan at current prices, four times that of 2002. The total profit was 295.6 billion yuan, nearly nine times that of 2002. The profit margin on sales reached 5.5%, the best level in history. In 2011, the output of chemical fiber, yarn, cloth, woolen, silk fabrics, clothing and other products ranked first in the world, and continued to maintain the position of the world's largest textile and clothing producer. Among them, the total amount of textile fiber processing reached 43.1 million tons, 2.4 times that of 2002; The output of chemical fiber was 33.62 million tons, 3.4 times that of 2002, accounting for more than 60% of the global output of chemical fiber. The output of yarn was 28.94 million tons and cloth was 62 billion meters, three times and two times that of 2002, respectively.

Industry exports have grown steadily

The textile industry has a high degree of external dependence, and export has always been the main factor affecting the smooth operation of the industry. Before the outbreak of the international financial crisis in 2008, about 30% of the textile industry's products were sold to the international market, and the international market share ranked first in the world for more than ten consecutive years, but the export market was nearly 50% concentrated in the European Union, the United States and Japan, which has not yet formed a diversified pattern. Severely affected by the international financial crisis, the textile industry has suffered a sharp decline in exports, the profitability of enterprises has declined, and the growth rate of production and efficiency has fallen to a historic low, falling into a predicament not seen in many years.

In order to stabilize the international market share of the textile industry and expand consumer demand in the domestic market, the state has formulated and implemented the "Textile Industry Adjustment and Revitalization Plan", and has raised the export tax rebate rate of textile and apparel four times, optimized and adjusted the total import volume of natural fibers (cotton, linen) and chemical fiber raw materials and the provisional tax rate, in a timely manner to ease the difficulties of textile enterprises and promote the recovery of industry exports.

In 2010, the growth rate of production and sales, efficiency and export of the textile industry has basically recovered to the pre-crisis level. With the joint efforts of all aspects, the whole industry continues to consolidate the results of the crisis, in 2011, textile and apparel exports of US $247.9 billion, accounting for more than 35% of the global similar trade, an increase of 18 percentage points over 2002. Among them, textile exports were 84.7 billion US dollars, and clothing and clothing accessories exports were 168.2 billion US dollars, about four times higher than in 2002. The proportion of general trade in the textile industry reached 75.4%, an increase of 13 percentage points over 2002; The share of private enterprises in exports increased from 9.7% in 2002 to over 50% in 2011. The proportion of direct exports to major consumer markets in Europe and the United States increased from 22% in 2002 to 42% in 2011.

The industrial structure has been continuously optimized

The textile industry focuses on independent innovation, technological transformation, elimination of backwardness and optimization of layout, and continues to promote structural adjustment and industrial upgrading. In light of the economic development situation, the state revised the Guidance Catalogue for Industrial Structure Adjustment in 2005 and 2010 to guide the direction of social investment. In the past ten years, the final product structure of the textile industry has developed from clothing processing to clothing, home textiles and industrial textiles, three final products have developed simultaneously, the proportion of fiber consumption has changed significantly, the proportion of clothing fiber has declined, household and industrial textiles have developed rapidly, and the application field of textiles has been expanding. In 2011, household textiles accounted for more than 30% of the total fiber processing, and industrial textiles accounted for more than 20%, respectively, an increase of more than 10 percentage points over 2002. Chemical fiber has become the main raw material support for the development of the textile industry, accounting for 72.5% of textile raw materials, basically meeting the needs of the textile industry for the quantity and quality of raw materials.