The Internet may open up a new pattern for the future of the textile industry

China is the world's largest producer, consumer and exporter of textiles and garments. It is the country with the most complete and complete textile industry chain, and has a solid foundation and obvious advantages in the world's textile power camp. With the development of technology and the arrival of the Internet era, the future of the textile industry will open up a new pattern.

Textile enterprises move westward or build factories in Southeast Asia

In recent years, due to the rising labor costs in China, the advantages of low labor costs in Southeast Asia, and the taxation and policy concessions implemented by countries in the region, many textile and apparel companies have been looting Southeast Asia, and investment in Southeast Asia has gradually become a boom, especially For Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos and other countries, investors are more interested. In 2017, Chinese textile companies are also adapting to this tide and integrating into the army of Nuggets in Southeast Asia. This year, dozens of textile companies including Texhong Textile, Hong Kong Esquel Group, Hongdou Group and Lutai Textile have expanded their factories in this area. . At the same time, textile enterprises in the developed areas of the domestic economy are also deploying factories in the central and western regions such as Xinjiang.

Faced with such a market environment in 2017, it is very helpless and pessimistic. It's very simple, don't wait for any market to get better, and directly produce products that can be profitable in such a harsh environment. For the textile industry, inferior or ordinary products are really all the way, everyone is very clear. However, products of excellent quality, whether in the Chinese market or the world market, are still very scarce, scarce products, naturally high prices, and naturally profitable. Our problem is how to produce excellent products at an ordinary or even lower cost.

"Internet" opens up a new pattern of textile

In the two sessions in 2015, the Internet was written into the basic national policy. In the government report of Prime Minister Ke Qiang, the “Internet” plan promotes the integration of mobile Internet, cloud computing, big data, and Internet of Things with modern manufacturing to promote e-commerce and industrial Internet. And the healthy development of internet finance.

At the 2016 China Fashion Forum·Hangzhou Summit, “The World Internet Godfather” Kevin Kelly predicted the future of Internet textiles. He published the book “Out of Control” many years ago, foreseeing trends in cloud computing, the Internet of Things, and virtual reality. “When robots replace artificial appearance in the textile and apparel industry, in the future, fashion is not only simple to produce clothing.” He introduced the Internet textile trends in the next decade or two from artificial intelligence, virtual reality, sharing and mobility.

As China's traditional pillar industry, "Internet Textile" will be a major innovation to change the status quo of textiles. With the development of two years, a large number of "Internet" B2B platforms have emerged, including many global textile networks, Alibaba and other veteran stars. Chains are still online, Internet of Things, search and other emerging platforms. In addition to the more convenient transaction process, e-commerce brings more breakthroughs to the textile industry. It also breaks through the original geographical restrictions and combines the supply and demand of fabrics and garment factories across China to solve the traditional problem of selling cloth and finding trouble. problem.

Technological innovation injects fresh blood into the industry

Recently, the “machine substitution” boom has emerged. The starting point is to improve the automation and high efficiency of the production process and replace the traditional manual operation with machines. The increase in labor costs in 2017 has made textile companies more difficult, which has created this boom.

In 2017, the technological innovation capability of the textile industry has been greatly improved. A number of key technologies in the industry have progressed and been promoted. Digital and networked technologies are widely used in all aspects of the industrial chain. Enterprises pay attention to and continuously increase the investment in science and technology, and 17 achievements in the whole industry have won the National Science and Technology Award. Among them, "the complete set of technology and equipment for digital automatic dyeing of cheese yarn" won the first prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award, 650 achievements won the Science and Technology Award of China Textile Industry Federation, and the number of effective invention patents of enterprises above designated size was 3.4 times of the end of "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" . Therefore, the driving role of innovation driving in the process of transformation and upgrading of the industry has become more and more obvious.

According to industry statistics, the water demand per 100 meters of printing and dyeing cloth in our country has dropped from 2.5 tons to less than 1.8 tons, and the water reuse rate has increased from 15% to over 30%. The annual utilization of recycled fiber reached 6 million tons, which accounted for more than 12% of the total fiber processing volume from 9.6% in 2010. The “Abandonment of Old Clothes” campaign has had a wide-ranging impact on the society and promoted the construction and development of the recycling, waste and comprehensive utilization of waste textiles.

At present, the digitalization rate of domestic textile enterprises' production equipment has reached 36.06%, the networking rate of digital production equipment has reached 27.74%, the informationization penetration rate of production management has reached 50.49%, and the proportion of enterprises that achieve control integration has reached 19.82%. Industry experts expect that this ratio will increase rapidly during the 13th Five-Year Plan period.