From a single fiber to the final garment, China has formed the world's most complete textile industry chain

Textile is a traditional industry and an indispensable and important component of the national economy. From a single fiber to the final garment, China has formed the most complete textile industry chain in the world, and has gradually grown from a major textile country to a global textile power.

China's annual fiber processing volume accounts for over 50% of the world's total, with textile and clothing exports reaching 316 billion US dollars in 2021, accounting for one-third of the world's total. At present, the retail scale of the Chinese clothing market exceeds 4.5 trillion yuan. It is the world's largest, most complete, and constantly transforming and upgrading Chinese textile industry chain that supports these huge numbers. With the reform and opening up, especially after China's accession to the World Trade Organization in the early 21st century, the textile industry has released huge production capacity, providing a continuous supply of affordable and high-quality clothing for the world. But at the same time, China's textile industry has ushered in a new era proposition. Our own size is already very large, and it is unlikely that it can run faster. "Sun Huaibin, Vice President and spokesperson of the China Textile Industry Federation, said that in the face of a series of factors such as changes in the market environment, pressure from comprehensive costs, environmental protection pressure, and rising labor costs, China's textile industry must transform and upgrade, and develop from a large to a strong one. Nowadays, the scene of a textile enterprise producing "thousand people's yarn and ten thousand people's cloth" has become history. In a high-end new type of special yarn production plant in Zaozhuang, Shandong, only 35 people are needed to produce 10000 spindles. However, more than 30 years ago, the factory with 100000 spindles had 10000 people, equivalent to 1000 people using 10000 spindles. Li Lingshen, Vice President of the China Textile Industry Federation and Deputy Director of the National Textile Standardization Technical Committee, said, "After several years of industry digitization, networking, and intelligent iteration and upgrading, the labor production efficiency, intelligent manufacturing level, and digital service level of the entire industry have been greatly improved, and labor productivity has greatly increased

Under the guidance of new development concepts, China's textile industry is not only expanding and strengthening in various aspects, undergoing transformation and upgrading, but also continuously expanding the application fields involved in the textile industry. From functional sportswear for Winter Olympics athletes, to materials for aerospace special equipment, and to the use of "bag dust" filtration technology for industrial dust and air pollution control, today's textile industry has far surpassed the traditional concept of "clothes, bedding, and the world" and become an important means of weaving the world. With the continuous expansion of application fields and the establishment of high-end, intelligent, and green enterprises, we also have unlimited imagination space for the future of China's textile industry.