The Situation Facing The "12Th Five-Year Development Plan" Of The Textile Industry

Textile industry is a traditional pillar industry and an important livelihood industry in China.

In order to implement the Twelfth Five Year Plan for national economic and social development and the plan for industrial pformation and upgrading (2011 - 2015), the Ministry of industry and information technology formulated the "12th Five-Year" development plan for the textile industry, in order to push the textile industry from big to strong.

1. opportunities for development

From the international perspective, the international market will recover slowly from the financial crisis, and the demand for textile and clothing market will continue to grow, but consumption will become more rational.

The three developed economies of the United States, Europe and Japan will continue to be the main market for China's textile and clothing exports, and the demand potential of emerging economies will be further released, which will help our textile industry to diversify its market.

The development of new energy, new materials and environmental protection industry is flourishing all over the world, providing opportunities for the textile industry to open up new consumption fields and new markets.

The international financial crisis has accelerated the process of technological innovation and low carbon technology development. The combination of information technology, biotechnology and other high-tech industries and traditional textile industries has become increasingly close. The development and application of renewable materials, clean production and recycling technology has a profound impact on the development of the textile industry, creating conditions and opportunities for shortening the gap between the textile power and the strategic commanding heights of industrial development.

With the further development of economic globalization, advanced technology, advanced textile machinery and equipment manufacturing, R & D and design capabilities of developed countries show a trend of accelerated pfer to emerging economies, and the international textile industry will be further adjusted.

After many years of adjustment and upgrading, China's textile industry has a good foundation in absorbing new technological achievements and improving innovation ability. Textile enterprises have constantly improved their internationalization level, and have made better use of two markets and two kinds of resources to participate in international competition at a higher level.

From the domestic point of view, during the "12th Five-Year" period, China will build a well-off society in an all-round way in order to meet the new expectations of people of all ethnic groups for a better life. Domestic consumer demand for textile and clothing will continue to escalate, and the domestic market will put forward higher requirements for the development of the textile industry.

At present, the per capita clothing expenditure of the rural residents who account for 54% of the population is 18% of the urban residents. The increase of the urbanization rate will directly lead to the faster growth of clothing consumption.

With the application of new materials and technologies in textile industry, the green, low-carbon, civilized and fashionable lifestyle led by product innovation will further tap the great potential of domestic demand.

The implementation of the national regional development strategy and the main functional area strategy will speed up the pformation and upgrading of the textile industry.

About 80% of the capacity of China's textile industry is concentrated in the eastern region. As the economic development and resource and environmental constraints are intensifying, the pace of pformation and upgrading and industrial pfer in the eastern region will accelerate.

The implementation of the national development strategy, such as the development of the western region, the rise of the central region and the revitalization of the northeast, has made the central and western regions more perfect in terms of undertaking industrial pfer.

During the "12th Five-Year" period, seizing the opportunity and promoting the pfer of textile industry is conducive to the formation of a new pattern of complementary and coordinated development of the textile industry in eastern, central and Western China, and will further maintain and enhance the international competitiveness of China's textile industry.

Accelerating the cultivation and development of strategic emerging industries has created new favorable conditions for the development of the textile industry.

High technology fiber and its composite materials, high-end textile technology and equipment manufacturing, and some industrial textiles will be developed as a component of strategic emerging industries.

At the same time, the development of strategic emerging industries will further expand the application of textile products in pportation, new energy, medical and health, safety protection, environmental protection, aerospace and other fields.

China is the country with the largest number of working age population in the world. The development of modern industrial system with strong employability is one of the important tasks during the "12th Five-Year" period.

The textile industry directly employs more than 20 million people. The annual use of nearly 9 million tons of domestic natural fiber is directly related to the livelihoods of at least 100 million farmers.

As an important livelihood industry, the textile industry will continue to play an important role in increasing employment, solving the problems of agriculture, rural areas and farmers, and promoting the construction of urbanization.

2. challenges

From the international perspective, during the "12th Five-Year" period, China's textile industry is facing the double competition between the developed countries in the high-end industrial chain and the developing countries at the low end of the industrial chain.

Developed countries rely on the advantages of technology, brand and supply chain integration to occupy the active position of the market.

Other developing countries will develop rapidly with the comparative advantage of labor cost, resources and trade environment.

At the same time, some developing countries' currency devaluation accelerates, which will compete with China in the middle and low end product market.

Since the outbreak of the international financial crisis, trade protectionism has risen. The major developed countries have restricted the import of other products by means of trade remedy or technical barriers to trade.

Since 2009, there have been frequent cases of trade frictions against China. The uncertainty of the international trade environment will remain great in the coming years. The issue of RMB exchange rate will also be an important factor affecting the international competitiveness of China's textile industry.

China's textile raw materials have a high degree of dependence on foreign materials. The external dependence of cotton is about 30%. The dependence on chemical fiber raw materials such as ethylene glycol, p-xylene, caprolactam and acrylonitrile is over 50%.

Moreover, affected by natural climate change, speculative speculation of speculative funds and fluctuations in oil market, there is a greater risk for the smooth operation of the textile industry.

From the domestic perspective, in the process of economic pformation and upgrading, due to the constraints of the labor environment and treatment, and the acceleration of the aging process of the population, the structural shortage of labor in the textile industry is becoming more and more serious. With the accelerated pace of industrial pfer, the number of local employment in the central and western regions has increased, the number of labor force exported to the eastern textile enterprises has gradually decreased, and the labor shortage of the eastern enterprises is obvious.

At the same time, with the accelerated development of resource-saving and environment-friendly society, higher requirements for energy conservation, emission reduction and elimination of backward products in textile industry are put forward.

The problems existing in the textile industry are still outstanding: the lack of scientific and technological innovation ability, the gap between high technology fiber and new equipment technology and international advanced level, the lag of independent brand construction, the increase of added value of products and the improvement of the industrial value chain. The task of energy conservation and emission reduction and the elimination of backward production capacity are arduous, and the promotion of advanced technology and technological pformation need to be strengthened. The phenomenon of homogeneous duplication still exists, the task of adjusting and optimizing regional layout is heavy, the domestic cotton management system needs to be further straightened out, and the institutional mechanisms of restricting the scientific development of textile industry are still more.

During the "12th Five-Year" period, we must scientifically judge and accurately grasp the development trend, make full use of various favorable conditions, accelerate pformation and upgrading, and strive to promote the textile industry to enter the innovation driven development track.