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From 2018, the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up, to 2019, the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China, will surely be a march remembered by history.

In 2018, in the face of the complex international situation, China's economy continued to develop steadily and well. As a pillar industry of the national economy, the textile industry closely revolves around the new industry positioning of "innovation-driven science and technology industry, culture-led fashion industry, and responsibility-oriented green industry". In this year, the economic structure continues to adjust and optimize. New progress has been made in the conversion of kinetic energy, new improvements have been made in quality and efficiency, cultural innovation has become the internal driving force supporting industrial development, and high-quality development has achieved substantial progress.

Looking forward to 2019, it will be a new historical juncture with more complex situation and more arduous challenges. China's textile industry needs to clarify the situation, assess the situation, comply with the requirements of the times, further accelerate the pace of industrial transformation and upgrading in the international competition of global economic integration, continuously improve the value innovation ability of the industry, and make every effort to promote the industry from big to strong.

At the beginning of the new year, "Textile and Apparel Weekly" specially invited the leaders of the China Textile Industry Federation to send a message to the New Year, with an authoritative perspective, looking forward to the domestic and foreign trends in 2019 and the industry's goals, and pointing out the direction for the new year.

Gao Yong, Party Secretary and Secretary General of China Textile Industry Federation

2018 is the first year to fully implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up, and a crucial year for the decisive victory in building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way and implementing the 13th five year plan. The textile industry as a whole continued the trend of medium and low speed growth and achieved stable and healthy development.

In the first half of the year, there were no major ups and downs from raw materials to the market. The operation of the industry can be described as "stable". From the raw material side, the prices of cotton, chemical fiber, wool, and silk are relatively stable; from the market, exports have also increased slightly. The performance of the manufacturing link is stable, and the economic benefits are generally stable. The "change" in the second half of the year is mainly reflected in the impact of Sino-US trade frictions on the industry. Although the actual impact is not large, it has caused people's psychological "panic" and spread to clothing exports. Although the industry's export performance was good in September and October 2018, in fact, it was mainly the result of many orders "grabbing exports" in order to minimize losses in the context of Sino-US trade frictions. Since November, clothing exports have shown negative growth. From the perspective of the domestic consumer market, the overall growth trend is good. Under the expectation of the decline in foreign trade, enterprises have increased their efforts to develop the domestic market. The growth in domestic sales made up for the decline in exports, so the industry as a whole maintained a steady and healthy development trend in 2018.

The Central Economic Work Conference held a year ago put forward the key tasks for the new year, and promoted the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry into the first key task. The meeting proposed to promote the deep integration of advanced manufacturing and modern service industries, and unswervingly build a manufacturing power. It is necessary to steadily promote the survival of the fittest in enterprises, and promote the formation and development of new technologies, new organizational forms, and new industrial clusters. It is necessary to enhance the technological innovation capabilities of the manufacturing industry, build an open, collaborative, and efficient common technology research and development platform, improve the demand-oriented, enterprise-based integrated innovation mechanism of industry-university-research, and pay close attention to the layout of national laboratories, reorganize the national key laboratory system, and increase Support for innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises, strengthen the protection and application of intellectual property rights, and form an effective innovation incentive mechanism. These all reflect the country's emphasis on the real economy and manufacturing. We must take the real economy as the focus of economic development, and put it in a more prominent position to become bigger and stronger.

The Central Economic Work Conference also proposed to continue to implement a proactive fiscal policy and a prudent monetary policy, implement larger-scale tax cuts and fee reductions, solve the problem of financing difficulties and expensive financing for private enterprises and small and micro enterprises, and create an institutional environment for fair competition. Encourage small and medium-sized enterprises to accelerate their growth, and also propose to place stable employment in a prominent position. In fact, with the improvement of automation and intelligent technology and equipment in the textile industry, the number of workers has decreased, and some small and medium-sized enterprises have been shut down. Many employees have been laid off. Some personnel have flowed to large enterprises, and some personnel have flowed to the service industry with more demand, without major social problems. In the future, with the reduction of social floating population and the return of migrant workers, the employment situation will be more severe. Therefore, to promote the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry is to carry out industrial transformation and upgrading, and to adjust the industrial structure and regional structure. The requirements of the Central Economic Work Conference are also requirements for our textile industry.

The adjustment of regional structure is also the adjustment of employment structure. We should implement the central social policy of giving priority to employment. At present, the employment of the "smart wife project" in Henan has increased significantly, and many skilled workers are returning home. Shanxi, Xinjiang, Ningxia, Yunnan and other places have also introduced similar measures to absorb employment by combining targeted poverty alleviation. Under the situation of medium and low-speed development of industrial economy, regional structural adjustment will be accelerated, and the transfer of the east to the central and western regions will promote new industrial agglomeration. The textile industry should, in accordance with the requirements of the central economic work conference, cultivate and support new industrial clusters while organizing the upgrading of the original industrial clusters.

In the process of industrial transformation and upgrading, we should pay attention to the improvement of independent innovation ability. In the past, we mostly adopted the model of introducing technology, digesting, absorbing and re-innovating. In the future, we can only take the road of independent innovation, because most of our products and technology and equipment have reached the world's advanced level, and the improvement at this level In the future, we can only rely on ourselves. In some high-tech fiber, high-performance fiber technology, the introduction of technology is more and more difficult, can only be based on independent research and development. Under the accurate industrial positioning, thinking about the future development path is to give priority to independent innovation.

The impact of Sino-US trade friction on the textile industry, in the short term, the uncertainty of textile and clothing exports to the United States has increased, and waiting and watching will have a direct impact on orders in the first half of the year. In the long run, Sino-US trade friction will prompt us to accelerate the pace of global layout.

The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China incorporated the development strategy of military-civilian integration into the strategic system of strengthening the country in the new era. For a long time, the textile industry has a complete military supporting system. Military products account for a relatively small proportion in the textile industry, but the scientific and technological content and quality requirements are very high, especially the requirements for weapons and equipment and protective equipment. Through military-civilian integration, civilian textile enterprises join the army to promote the technological content and quality of textile products. In the next step, the textile industry will formulate the "Guiding Opinions on the Development of Military-civilian Integration in China's Textile Industry" to more systematically promote military-civilian integration.

2019 is the 70th anniversary of the founding of the people's Republic of China, and it is a key year to build a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, implement the 13th five year plan, and basically build a textile power. China's economic development will face a complex and severe external environment, and the development of textile industry will also face many uncertainties. At the same time, we must also see that the series of measures proposed by the Central Economic Work Conference have brought many benefits to the development of the industry. In the face of the new situation, enterprises should strengthen the vitality of micro-subjects and improve their ability to deal with the market. China Textile Federation will strengthen research, find out the industry situation, accurately grasp the development trend, innovate service mode, improve the ability of service industry enterprises, and strive for a better tomorrow of China's textile industry.