What Challenges Will Xinjiang Textile And Garment Industry Face In The Future?

The second central Xinjiang work forum was decided to be implemented in Xinjiang. Spin clothing Xinjiang has become a fertile land for China's textile and garment industry since it promoted the employment strategy of millions of people. Over the past two years, with the support of the central government and the aid of the provinces and municipalities, the textile and garment industry has been developing rapidly in Xinjiang under the joint efforts of the party committees and governments at all levels in the autonomous region.

Also in the past two years, Xinjiang, the largest cotton producing base in the country, has ushered in. cotton The important reform of the industry, the return of cotton prices to the market, the separation of cotton prices, the reduction of cotton area, and so on, are gradually improving the efficiency of cotton production in Xinjiang. As the upper reaches of textile and clothing, especially the cotton spinning industry, Xinjiang's cotton production is affecting the whole textile industry of the whole country and even the whole country.

With the major changes in Xinjiang's textile and garment industry and cotton industry, what opportunities and challenges are facing the future development of the Xinjiang textile and garment industry with sufficient cotton resources? In August 11th, our reporter interviewed academicians of the Chinese Academy of engineering, textile materials scientist and textile educator Yao Mu at the second Xinjiang textile and clothing technology forum.

Before 2006, the national textile and garment enterprises consumed about 11 million tons of cotton per year before 2006. This figure has decreased rapidly in the past two years, 6 million 80 thousand tons in 2014 and 4 million 600 thousand tons last year. Yao Mu used a set of data to explain the current predicament facing the textile and garment industry.

The change of this group of data does not mean that people's consumption ability in the field of clothing has become weaker, but that the textile and garment enterprises are somewhat powerless in terms of production capacity. Yao Mu said that with the development of cotton industry in neighboring countries and regions, the cost of cotton in India and other countries is much lower than that in China, and domestic and foreign cotton prices have become upside down. Even cotton yarn prices in some areas are lower than domestic cotton prices. Many enterprises directly import cotton yarn and reduce domestic cotton consumption. In the field of high-end clothing production, high quality materials need to consume high quality cotton. But in many areas including Xinjiang, it is used to the production mode that has been pursued for years. The quality of cotton has declined, and the difficulty of textile has been increasing. This directly increases the cost of products and weakens the competitiveness. At the same time, in the field of high-end and customized products, high quality cotton also presents a shortage of supply, which further restricts the development of the textile and garment industry.

Yao Mu said that the tension of raw materials that the textile and garment industry is facing can be summed up. The low end products have foreign competition, and the self-sufficiency ability of high-end products is lacking. The two cotton and textile and garment industries should be closely linked to the upstream and downstream industries and are in an awkward position.

"One seed affects one industry" to solve the awkward situation encountered by the textile and garment industry and the cotton industry, the cotton industry should make corresponding reforms.

Yao Mu believes that Xinjiang's cotton industry must solve the problem of too complicated quality. At present, too many cotton varieties are planted in Xinjiang, which is not only bad for the selection of high-quality cotton, but also can not make unified standard for machine driven cotton promotion. Cotton is easily mixed with impurities in the process of machine production. Some downstream processing enterprises need to arrange for workers to sort out impurities in cotton bags, thus increasing the burden on enterprises.

"To realize the development of textile and garment industry, we must start from a good cotton seed." Yao Mu said that the cotton industry should change the unfavorable situation which only pursued the unit yield in the past, put the fiber quality in the first place. In the breeding process, we should also focus on the cultivation of high fiber quality cotton, and form a positive interaction between the cotton industry and the downstream textile and garment industry.

"Pure cotton is not necessarily the best." although Xinjiang has excellent cotton resources, enterprises should abandon the wrong perception of "pure cotton is the best". Yao Mu said that with the continuous development of textile technology, mixed textile materials are becoming a hot area in the development of the global textile and garment industry. The special physical and chemical properties of mixed textile materials become an important foundation for the production of high-end and customized garments.

Yao Mu believes that Xinjiang's textile and garment enterprises should rely on local cotton resources instead of relying on local cotton, and increase their research efforts in the field of mixed textile technology on the basis of cotton spinning. This can not only tap new market potential, but also reduce enterprises' dependence on cotton to a certain extent and avoid operational risks. At the same time, as downstream textile and garment enterprises, we should maintain closer cooperation with the upstream cotton production links.