What is the status of Zhejiang's traditional advantageous textile industry?

In the face of major changes unseen in the world in a century, the central government has repeatedly stressed the need to upgrade the industrial base and modernize the industrial chain. The meeting of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee held recently reviewed and adopted the action plan of the manufacturing industry base reconstruction and industrial chain upgrading project, and gave the positioning of "extreme importance, urgency and difficulty".

Over the years, Zhejiang has taken advantage of the massive economy to form a unique industrial advantage of "Made in Zhejiang", with more than 70 manufacturing clusters occupying more than 30% of the domestic market.

Textile is one of the traditional industrial chain advantages of Zhejiang Province. It is closely related to life, linking chemical fiber, weaving, printing and dyeing, chemical industry, textile machinery, clothing and other links, pulling a number of upstream and downstream enterprises in Shaoxing, Jiaxing, Ningbo, Hangzhou and other places, forming a more complete textile industry chain.

At present, what is the status quo of Zhejiang's traditional advantageous industrial chain? How far is it from "building a global iconic industrial chain"? What can the government and the market do to enhance industrial competitiveness? Recently, the reporter to the modern textile industry chain as an observation point, to the textile city of Shaoxing squat research. The problems encountered here, the direction of exploration, may bring thinking.

Printing and dyeing factory production scene.

Step out of the "positive line" of change

Under the impact of the epidemic, a relatively complete and stable modern textile industry chain has withstood the test.

In the first half of 2020, Shaoxing textile industry has stepped out of the unusual "Yang line", and the added value of Shaoxing's five traditional industries reached 37.76 billion yuan, an increase of 2.9%, accounting for more than half of the textile industry. Among them, the added value of the chemical fiber industry increased by 6% year-on-year.

"This is closely related to the advantages of industrial clusters and stable chains." The relevant person in charge of the Shaoxing Economic and Information Bureau introduced that the upstream of this industrial chain, Keqiao, Shengzhou, Shangyu have the country's well-known chemical fiber, silk, cotton yarn and other raw material production enterprises; In the middle, Keqiao Blue Print fashion Town gathers 108 printing and dyeing enterprises, with a production capacity of more than one-third of the country; Downstream, Keqiao fabric, Zhuji socks industry, Shengzhou ties and other industrial clusters, dislocation development. In recent years, Shaoxing has further clarified the layout, and the modern textile industry has developed in tandem with Keqiao, Zhuji and Shengzhou.

And with Shaoxing "step apart" Jiaxing, Hangzhou, Ningbo and other places gathered chemical fiber, weaving, home textile clothing and many other enterprises. The clusters are closely linked and complement each other, and together constitute the "central axis" of Zhejiang modern textile industry chain.

Zhuji, Datang Street, has more than 10,000 enterprises, with an annual output of more than 27 billion pairs of socks, is one of the "heart" of the global socks industry.

Take the latest design around town, you can buy yarn, find foundries, logistics providers. The raw materials are shipped, the socks machine is started, and the new socks can be launched in the online store the next day. If there is a new demand for raw material research and development, product testing, etc., you can also go to the local industrial innovation service complex - Datang Hossery Art Town, to seek the assistance of universities and scientific research institutes settled experts.

This is the daily routine familiar to the person in charge of the production department of Zhuji Karameira Company, and it is also the epitome of the local tight collaborative production mode. In this way, the efficiency of the supply chain is greatly improved, and upstream and downstream enterprises also obtain a strong sense of security. "Are any links broken, any ingredients missing?" Along the way, the reporter almost got a negative answer. Many company leaders believe that "the textile industry chain is relatively safe".

Under the impact of the epidemic, although orders have been affected to a certain extent, the stable supply has made many enterprises able to buck the trend of growth. In the first half of this year, Karamela's sales exceeded 100 million yuan, an increase of more than 25% year-on-year, attracting Huarui Investment, which has been inclined to invest 50 million yuan in the field of new technology.

The competition of the future industry is the competition of the entire industrial chain, and the latter is composed of various supply chains. In the view of Ling Yun, a first-level inspector of the Provincial Economic and Information Department who has long promoted the development of the manufacturing industry in Zhejiang, the epidemic does not occur in different regions and countries, resulting in the incoordination or supply interruption between the upstream and downstream supply chains of many enterprises in the organization of production, and all regions are rethinking the conflict between economic efficiency and economic security in the process of participating in globalization. The production organization of the manufacturing industry has gradually evolved from global procurement to a "domestic cycle as the main body, domestic and international double cycle" pattern, pay more attention to independent innovation, pay more attention to the core technology of the industrial chain, the future industry competition will also turn to the competition between industrial clusters, "modern textile industry, not only closely linked to social needs, It has also initially realized the 'internal cycle' to drive the external cycle and promote each other, becoming an important choice for us to build a trillion-class industry." Ling Yun said.