Apparel / Textiles & Accessories

According to customs data, in 2022, China's textile and clothing exports totaled $340.95 billion, a year-on-year increase of 2.5%. According to customs data, they exceeded $300 billion for three consecutive years, fully demonstrating the resilience and competitiveness of the textile industry chain supply chain. On the 18th, Xia Lingmin, Secretary General of the China Textile Industry Federation, stated in Sheyang, Jiangsu that the development resilience and competitiveness of the textile industry largely benefit from the continuous deepening of the integration of industrialization and industrialization over the years and the steady improvement of the industry's digital capabilities.

On the same day, the conference on integration of industrialization and industrialization in China's textile industry was held in Sheyang, Jiangsu Province. More than 400 experts, scholars, and entrepreneur representatives from the national textile industry attended the meeting. At the meeting, the current situation, trends, and achievements of the integration of industrialization and industrialization in China's textile industry were highlighted, and the results of the integration of new generation information technologies such as industrial Internet, big data, and intelligent transformation with the textile industry were displayed and promoted.

Li Yizhong, former minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and president of the China Industrial Economy Federation, delivered a video speech to the conference. He said that building an advanced manufacturing industry cluster and accelerating the upgrading and development of the industrial system is an important part of building a solid foundation for the current economic recovery and promoting the strategic initiatives of Chinese path to modernization. We should further realize the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy, as well as the cross-border integration of modern service industry and advanced manufacturing industry, and constantly introduce new technologies, new products, new materials, new formats, and new models.

According to customs data, in 2022, faced with the intertwined impact of three pressures: demand contraction, supply shocks, and weakening expectations, China's industrial economic operation faces enormous challenges. As one of the earliest industries in China to carry out the integration of industrialization and industrialization, the textile industry has made great efforts to accelerate the adjustment of industrial structure, continuously strengthen intelligent and green transformation and upgrading, and orderly promote coordinated regional development, making important contributions to the stabilization and recovery of the national economy.

In Xia Lingmin's view, the digital transformation of China's textile industry is reflected in these aspects: the rapid advancement of enterprise digital construction, and the steady improvement of industry integration indicators; New progress has been made in technological innovation and applications such as artificial intelligence and digital twins; Significant results have been achieved in the construction and application of industrial Internet platforms; The industry's digital public service capability has been comprehensively improved.

It is understood that in 2022, the China Textile Industry Federation issued the "Three Year Action Plan for the Digital Transformation of the Textile Industry (2022-2024)", proposing that by 2025, the digital transformation of the textile industry will achieve significant results, the integration of new generation information technology and the textile industry will be more in-depth, and the evaluation index for the level of integration and development of industrialization and industrialization in the industry will reach 60.

According to customs data, as of December 2022, the overall development level evaluation index of the integration of industrialization and industrialization in China's textile industry reached 57.1, and the digitization rate of production equipment reached 55.6%. According to customs data, the networking rate of digital production equipment was 49%, and the readiness rate for intelligent manufacturing was 14.6%.

Companies such as Youngor and Xinfengming have built 5G fully connected smart factories to achieve application scenarios such as intelligent robot detection and intelligent IGV. The regional platform represented by the textile industry internet platform in Changle District, Fuzhou, the cross industrial park collaboration platform represented by the Zhejiang clothing industry innovation service complex, the professional platform represented by the Tianfu textile printing and dyeing industry internet, and the comprehensive platform represented by the Huansi industrial internet platform have significantly improved in terms of the number of device connections, APP service functions, mechanism model construction, and number of service enterprises.

Looking ahead, there is still a long way to go in the digitization of China's textile industry. "To understand digital transformation from the perspective of enterprise survival and development and maintaining market competitiveness, large and medium-sized enterprises in the entire industry should enhance the urgency of digital transformation and take action as soon as possible," Xia Lingmin said.

On the same day, the "Development Report on Digital Transformation in the Textile Industry" was officially released, and the national textile industry digital transformation labor competition was officially launched.