The globalization of the knitting industry

With the development of international trade, the globalization of the knitting industry has become irreversible.

Industry development needs practicality

The operation of the textile industry this year, from January to October, the figures provided by the National Bureau of Statistics are relatively optimistic. From January to October, the total output value of the textile industry totaled 4.68 trillion yuan, a growth rate of 11%, a profit of 181.2 billion yuan, and an export volume of 209.8 billion US dollars, an increase of 2%. Investment in fixed assets increased by more than 14% during the period from January to October. Looking at the complete industrial chain of the textile industry, the cotton and chemical fiber industries are relatively more difficult. The common problem is the sluggish international market and insufficient domestic demand. The cotton spinning industry is mainly due to the special circumstances encountered by the textile industry, and the macroeconomic policy of cotton has caused the increasing price difference with international cotton. Therefore, this year's cotton spinning industry has experienced unprecedented difficulties. Many companies responded to the situation this year even more difficult than in 2008 and 2009. As the chemical fiber industry was affected by the cotton spinning industry, profits dropped by 52%.

Looking at China's manufacturing industry, the textile industry is still relatively optimistic. Although the growth of the clothing industry is not as good as in previous years, it is still growing slowly. In particular, the development momentum of the knitting industry in the entire textile and apparel industry is still quite promising. Many domestic clothing brands have successively developed knitwear products. From the perspective of profitability, the textile industry is third only to the machinery industry and the precision industry. In the future, China's economic growth will enter a medium-speed growth phase. At this particular stage, the development of the manufacturing industry requires the industry to analyze and prepare in advance. When we formulated the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" for the textile industry, we have already lowered the expected growth rate of the textile industry. The growth target for the next five years' GDP is 8%, and the target for fiber processing growth is 5%. Our goal in the year was to build a textile giant into a textile powerhouse, but the target of this powerful country has been different from the 15% growth rate 30 years ago. This is because it is no longer possible that this growth rate will happen.

Therefore, at this stage, we must carefully analyze how the industry, industry, and enterprises should develop in the future. Transformation and upgrading, and structural adjustment must closely integrate the development of the national economy. Targeting the development goals of the knitting industry in the future.

Assistant Chairman of China Textile Industry Federation and President of China Knitting Industry Association Yang Shibin

The next 10 years must be a global strategy

Looking at the 40 industries in 41 major industries in 2012, the textile industry is still one of the best. First, the cotton spinning industry was affected by the cotton policy, and its internal and industrial chain cooperation has undergone major changes. Secondly, in the chemical fiber field, due to the increasing demand for substitution, especially viscose staple fiber and polyester staple fiber, there will be no significant increase in investment in viscose products in the future, which is worthy of attention. Finally, the end product situation is better than the upstream, especially the outstanding knit performance.

Due to the globalization of current resource allocation, China needs one-third of cotton, 40% of wool, and oil to be imported. More than 40% of knitted garments are exported globally. China accepts global commodities to become the world’s second-largest consumer market, such as H&M. UNIQLO, Walmart, etc. At the same time, a large number of international students study abroad and work, and many regions have quietly raised the Chinese fever. Especially Chinese textile companies have set up industries in Southeast Asia and Africa. Many multinational companies have set up factories in China and established branch companies, which have made globalization irreversible. the trend of.

China's textile and apparel industry needs to be integrated into the world scope to a greater extent. How to achieve a global distribution? It is a task for the whole industry and industry to think together. Due to the characteristics of China's textile and garment industry, Chinese knitting companies need to step up their efforts to establish factories abroad or cooperate with foreign companies in various forms. The goal is to obtain cutting-edge information and technology. Integrate into the wave of globalization, fight the world with the world, and seek development.

In the next 10 years, China's garment industry will shift from labor-intensive to capital- and technology-intensive. Labor-intensive industry stage: Fully enjoy the demographic dividend. Instead of focusing on R&D, we adopt matured traditional technologies to emphasize sales channels and close short-range market relationships. In the capital-intensive stage: a huge wealth agglomeration effect. Emphasis on the support of technology, patents and legal systems, and the composition of a remote market network. Financial arrangements at this stage require large amounts of capital to enter and exit, and diversify the risk of a rich financial ecology.

The arrival of the third industrial economy and the arrival of digitalization are a hotbed of labor-intensive, capital- and technology-intensive transformations. Due to the development of information technology, the concept of manufacturing industry has undergone many changes in its connotation and extension. The core of the third industry is the makers. Use the Internet and the latest digital manufacturing technologies to create products. The developed countries have again begun to pay attention to and relocate the manufacturing industry. The reason is not that the cost of developing countries such as China has risen. In the face of competition in developing countries, China needs to find a new competitive advantage. The textile industry has the first-time advantage of the first time, and the knitting industry has the advantage of the textile industry. The third industry will certainly give us a huge advantage in the knitting industry.

Many ways to cooperate with foreign companies

China is currently in an era of great changes. Many factors are constantly changing. The first change is the constant change in the external environment of China's development. Since the international financial crisis, one of the core elements is debt, such as the debt crisis in the United States, Europe, and Japan. The generation of debt can naturally expand consumption and promote economic growth. In a country, the debt owed and income generated can be unbalanced within itself, but it must be balanced globally. However, on a global scale, the loss caused by the advance consumption of a country must be remedied by another country. Therefore, the international environment in the next 3 to 5 years will not be very good, because to remedy these losses, we must rely on solid growth and innovation in the real economy. At present, it seems that innovations that can truly lead economic growth out of the crisis have not yet emerged.

The second change is the transformation of China's international role. This crisis is a crisis created by high debt and advanced consumption in developed countries. China is a country with high savings and low consumption. Therefore, the uniqueness of China in this crisis has made its impact on the changes in world politics and economic structure. It is very profound. The best way for the textile and garment industry and knitting companies is to go out and cooperate with foreign companies in various ways.

The third change is that the internal conditions for China's development are changing, and now it has dropped from a high-speed growth to a low-to-middle growth rate. As the supply structure of the growth factors continues to change, the demographic dividend will eventually disappear. I think that China's processing, The supply of assembled labor has reached a turning point. China is not a country in terms of economic significance. It is an aggregate of multiple regions with different levels of development. Therefore, in the event that the industries of other countries undergo a transfer and a single transfer, China will undergo multiple transfers and multiple transfers. The situation. Therefore, China's industrial development has its own uniqueness. To study the development of China's garment industry, we should have our own perspective. The current stage of transformation and upgrading is a painful process. This process is full of opportunities and challenges. However, opportunities are greater than challenges and the prospects are bright.

Shen Junnian, Vice President of China Knitting Industry Association

Warp knitting industry expects leapfrog development

With the integration of science and technology to liberate the productive forces and integrate the global information economy, the new historical mission of the textile industry is to make textile giants march toward textile power. Under the guidance of the “Twelfth Five-year Development Plan for Textile Industry” and “Comprehensive Outline for the Construction of Textile Countries (2011-2020)”, the warp-knitted industry faces the heavy task of structural adjustment and industrial upgrading. Under the same background, we propose that the China Warp Kerry Tour is an important exploration in the new era of textile industry development, an important exploration of the warp knitting culture and warp knitting industry to the public, and an adjustment and upgrade of the warp knitting industry structure. The important exploration is also an important exploration of the development of Chinese warp knitting brands.

On May 18th this year, it was sponsored by China Knitting Industry Association and China Textile Industry News Center, China Knitting Industry Association Warp Knitting Branch, Donghua University, Beijing Institute of Fashion, Shanghai University of Engineering and Technology, and China Textile Economy Information Network Industry Cluster. The “Going to the grassroots to see the textile industry” organized by the People's Government and China Enactment Information Network formally kicked off the activities of the China Warp Kerry Tour. Via Haining Station, Meili Station, Runyuan Station, Germany Karl Mayer Station, arrived in Frankfurt, Beijing, Zhejiang and other five domestic and foreign provinces and regions, the number of on-site activities reached more than 2,000 people, travel more than 20,000 kilometers, peer ministries There are more than 50 leaders in industry associations, more than 100 local leaders, hundreds of corporate leaders, and local leaders have paid attention to wherever they go. In-depth research on industrial bases was conducted to further explore the important contents of the industrial upgrading of warp knitting culture, industrial restructuring, technological progress, and brand building, and scientifically promoted the industry to achieve sound and rapid development.

This activity drove the vigorous development of the warp knitting industry culture, created the mainstream values ​​of the industry, promoted the industrial economic development through the industrial cultural effect, and made great efforts to promote the construction of the warp-knit cultural country, which laid a solid foundation for the development of the warp knitting industry in China and promoted the industry. The continuous improvement of competitiveness. The plan for the next phase of the China Warp Kerry Tour is to create a batch of warp leader figures, build a batch of warp-knit brand companies, build a number of warp-knit brand clusters, and strive to build the “Chinese warp knitting” into “Chinese textile” Important brand.

Guanghua School of Management, Guanghua University, Guanghua Leadership Institute

Changing Comparative Advantage to Competitive Advantage

The transformation and upgrading of China's manufacturing industry face opportunities and challenges. The changes that have taken place in China in the past 30 years are the process of industrialization in China. The organic combination of capital and labor has created tremendous productivity. The initial period of reform and opening up began with Guangdong, when Comrade Deng Xiaoping proposed that if mainland China can recreate several Hong Kong, the world will have an eye for China.

Twenty years ago, Hong Kong’s total GDP was 25% of mainland China. In 2011, Hong Kong’s GDP was equivalent to 3.3% of the mainland. The early ideas of Mr. Deng Xiaoping became a reality in another sense today. Comparing China with India, in 1990, India's per capita GDP was slightly higher than China's, and today China's per capita GDP is four times that of India. However, the advent of the financial crisis has had a huge impact on the global economic environment. In 2009, the GDP growth rates of the BRIC countries were 8.7% in China, 5.5% in India, 0 in Brazil, and -7.0% in Russia. Changes in total factor productivity in the BRIC countries: China’s average annual growth rate of TFP exceeds 4%, India is below 3%, and Brazil and Russia are both below 0.5%.

The challenge of industrial transformation and upgrading at this stage is capital, talent, land resources, and management systems. The industrial transformation and upgrading method is to eliminate backward productivity and cultivate core competitive enterprises.

Enterprises must be able to transform China’s comparative advantage into a competitive advantage of the enterprise before they can be based on the international market. At present, China’s textile and garment industry is shifting from a labor-intensive industry to a capital- and technology-intensive industry. For Chinese companies, technology The significance of progress and the improvement of efficiency are based on a full understanding of China’s comparative advantages. Competitive advantages must be based on the full use of these comparative advantages. Milan, Italy, is a major garment industry in the world. Due to the competition between Chinese and Indian products, the market continues to shrink. Italian manufacturers have begun to differentiate and set up companies or orders in China to reduce costs. The dilemma of the Italian garment industry has implications for the current stage of China's textile and garment industry.

China's industrial transformation and upgrading is the only way for China's future economic development. The power and ability of the enterprise are the protagonists of industrial transformation and upgrading. Enterprises can enhance their competitiveness through innovation and seek development in the global market.

Globalization has brought both opportunities and challenges to the knitting industry. How to grasp the opportunities and avoid risks has become the most important issue.