The textile industry has always occupied an important position in China's economic and social development, and has played an important role in booming markets, expanding exports, absorbing employment, increasing farmers' income, and promoting urbanization. The solid position and important role make us need to pay more attention to: the textile industry must keep pace with the times, whether it is a growth mode or a development mode.
At different historical stages, there are inevitably various deep-level contradictions connected with the times. Only by consistently adhering to the scientific concept of development, constantly discovering problems and solving problems, can we achieve good and fast sustainable development.
In 2000, when the 10th Five-Year Plan started, there were 19,400 enterprises in China's textile industry above the designated size (with annual sales of more than 5 million yuan), creating a total output value of 889.452 billion yuan. After two years of development and improvement in the five-year planning period, in 2010 at the end of the "11th Five-Year Plan" period, the number of enterprises above the size of the textile industry grew to 54,600, creating a total output value of 47.258 billion yuan.
Entering the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, China's textile industry is facing a more complex external environment. Major developed economies have entered a period of oscillating adjustments after the financial crisis, geopolitical risks have further increased, and the global economic structure has further diversified. In this complicated situation, China's textile industry has taken a robust and robust first step. In 2011, the enterprises above the designated size in the textile industry (annual sales of more than 20 million yuan) created a total output value of 478.65 billion yuan, and the industry achieved an export value of 254.123 billion US dollars.
In 2012, in the first half of the year, China's textile industry continued to improve its technology application and brand contribution capabilities in the face of pressures such as slowing domestic and foreign market demand and continued rise in the prices of comprehensive factors, and maintained double-digit growth in production and sales. According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, from January to June 2012, enterprises above the size of China's textile industry (annual sales of more than 20 million yuan) completed a total industrial output value of 2,664.69 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 11.25%; realized industrial sales output value of 251.3195 billion yuan , A year-on-year increase of 10.8%.
However, it must be seen that the situation facing China's textile industry at this stage is even more difficult than it was during the 2008 financial crisis.
Although the scale of production and sales has continued to grow, the growth rate has fallen sharply compared with the same period last year, and the industry's profits have fallen year-on-year. The "troika" driving the development of the industry has been weak this year: the export market was weak. From January to June, China's textile and apparel exports amounted to US $ 117.068 billion, an increase of only 2.21% year-on-year, and the growth rate fell 23.19 percentage points from the same period last year. The growth of the domestic demand market has slowed down. From January to June, the retail sales of apparel needles and textiles in China ’s retail enterprises above designated size was 453.8 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 16.9%, a growth rate of 7 percentage points lower than the same period of the previous year. From June to June, China's textile industry completed a fixed asset investment of 340.484 billion yuan, an increase of 15.17% year-on-year, and the growth rate fell 22.39 percentage points from the same period of the previous year.
In the situation of declining exports, it is also worrying that China's textile industry has gradually weakened its processing advantages accumulated over the years. Sports goods giants Nike and Adidas have successively closed their factories in China and transferred orders to Southeast Asian countries such as Vietnam. Some people have asked: Why hasn't the rise of China's Midwest in recent years taken advantage of the situation? Since the export data is disappointing, why can't we abandon exports and keep domestic sales?
In recent years, due to the increase in the cost of comprehensive factors, some domestic production companies have begun to relocate production lines, and international buyers have also shifted some orders to Southeast Asia based on cost control. However, based on import data from the United States, Europe, and Japan, China ’s textile and apparel market share in the United States and Europe ’s import market remained above 37% in the first half of 2012, while its share in Japan ’s import market was over 72%. China's textile and apparel still has a strong advantage in the global market.
For a long time to come, China's textile industry will still have obvious outward-looking characteristics. For the international market, what we have to do is not to give up, but to re-examine and reshape our competitive advantages, and to avoid weaknesses and form misaligned competition with the rising stars in Southeast Asia.
At the same time, the gradient transfer to the Midwest is still accelerating. According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, from January to June 2012, the investment growth rate of the textile industry in the central and western regions of China was higher than that of the eastern region by 8.25 percentage points and 7.99 percentage points, respectively. The same period of the year increased by 0.7 percentage points and 0.17 percentage points, respectively. During the same period, the textile industry in the central and western regions grew faster than in the east. From January to June 2012, the total industrial output value of textile enterprises above designated size in the central and western regions increased by 19.8% and 14.48%, respectively, 10.27 percentage points and 4.95 percentage points higher than those in the eastern region.
It may take 10 years or more to form and stabilize the new industrial regional structure, during which the market form, industrial form, and enterprise form will undergo profound changes. In the coming period, the industry will introduce various macro-control policies in a timely manner, and the whole society will make concerted efforts to promote steady growth. It will definitely overcome the difficult period and explore innovation on the track of "stability and progress".
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