2022 China Textile Green Development Conference Boosts High Quality Development of the Industry

On February 25, the 2022 China Textile Green Development Conference and the National Textile Industry Green Development Labor Competition Summary Meeting was held in Beijing. As one of the series of activities of "excellent supply and promotion of upgrading" of textile and clothing of the Ministry of industry and information technology, the theme of this conference is "gathering industry forces to promote green development", aiming to build industry consensus, meet the needs of people for a better life, and coordinate industrial development and green and low-carbon transformation with water saving, energy saving, pollution reduction and carbon reduction as the starting point, We will jointly promote the green development of textile industry to a new level. The meeting reviewed the achievements of the green innovation and development of the textile industry in 2022, analyzed the new situation of macro-economy and green development of the industry in 2023, released the fruitful results of the last year's green development labor competition, and called on the whole industry to take Xi Jinping's new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics as the guidance, guided by the 20 major spirits of the party, to implement the new development concept in a complete, accurate and comprehensive manner, and to forge ahead, jointly create a bright future for China's textile industry.

Cao Xuejun, First-Class Inspector of the Consumer Goods Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Wang Qian, Chairman of China Finance, Trade, Textile and Tobacco Trade Union, Duan Xiaoping, Vice President of China Textile Industry Federation, Hua Shan, Director of the Ministry of Industry, Yan Yan, Director of the Office of Social Responsibility, Li Guimei, President of China Textile Industry Association, Qu Jing, Vice President and Secretary-General of China Knitting Industry Association, Zong Ruilong, li Boyang, director of the Consumer Goods Industry Research Institute of the CCID Research Institute of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, as well as relevant leaders from the national textile system and trade union system, experts, scholars, and business representatives attended the meeting offline. The 2022 China Textile Industry Green Development Conference was presided over by Cheng Xi, deputy director of the Industry Department of the China Textile Industry Federation and director of the Office of the Environmental Resources Committee.

Cao Xuejun said in his speech that the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China emphasized that high-quality development is the primary task of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way, and promoting green and low-carbon economic and social development is the key link to achieve high-quality development. This is a major judgment based on the strategic deployment of accelerating the green transformation of the development mode and the essential requirements of building a Chinese-style modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature. It provides a fundamental basis for the green transformation of the textile industry to achieve high-quality development and consolidate its dominant position.

She said that green development is an inevitable choice for the high-quality development of the textile industry, an important measure to consolidate the leading position of the advantageous industry, and is becoming a new engine and new momentum for the development of the industry. In view of the future green development of the industry, she put forward four suggestions: first, strengthen the top-level design to promote the green and low-carbon transformation of textiles; second, strengthen collaborative innovation and increase the application and promotion of textile green and low-carbon technology; third, speed up structural optimization to form a green and low-carbon production and lifestyle; fourth, improve standard certification and improve the green transformation service system.

Duan Xiaoping also said that 2022 is a very challenging year for the textile industry. Under the background of multiple pressures, the implementation of cost reduction and efficiency enhancement has become an important means to stabilize the economic development of the industry. The implementation of cost reduction and efficiency increase in the field of green and low-carbon recycling is not only a general trend, but also an active behavior with both economic, environmental and social benefits. It can not only tap the potential of resources and energy to meet the demand of consumption growth, but also leave the industry to maintain the expansion space of sustainable economic development, improve the green competitiveness of the industry, and boost the confidence of the industry to stabilize growth and promote development.

He stressed that the construction of ecological civilization is a millennium plan to realize the sustainable development of the Chinese nation. Accelerating the green transformation and upgrading of traditional industries and promoting water-saving, pollution-reducing and carbon-reducing synergies are the only way to achieve high-quality industrial development, and are also the key to implementing and fulfilling the promise of carbon neutrality. In order to build a modern textile industrial system with green and low-carbon circular development, first, we should focus on strengthening the chain to ensure that the industrial system is independent and controllable; second, we should continue to transform and upgrade and take the road of high-end, intelligent and green development; third, we should adhere to the human text and embody responsibility and value in development. In addition, it is necessary to release the innovative and creative vitality of the majority of employees, increase the reserve and training of talents, and only by giving full play to the role of people can we gradually build a scientific and technological support system for green development. in order to promote the industry to build a development form of symbiosis and value sharing with the beauty of production, life and ecology.

At the meeting, Hua Shan made a keynote speech entitled "Development Situation and Prospect of Textile Industry. She pointed out that with the changes in the external situation and the expansion of the industry's own scale, my country's textile industry has entered a development cycle of slowing total growth and deep adjustment and transformation. At the same time, the industrial structure has been steadily optimized, and the scale of production and exports has continued to grow. Continue to maintain a high market share. She also systematically summarized the results of the green transformation and upgrading of the textile industry in recent years. Through measures such as green supply and consumption improvement, continuous optimization of energy consumption structure, and sound development of industrial layout, the industry has made great progress in green fiber materials, high-end textile equipment, and green process technology, and has initially established a green manufacturing innovation system, The industry is transforming and upgrading towards the new positioning of "science and technology fashion green. In the future, China Textile Federation will continue to promote the optimization and improvement of energy consumption from six aspects: innovation, benchmarking, technological transformation, coordination, open source and management, strictly carry out pollution prevention and control, strengthen resource conservation and comprehensive utilization, comprehensively build a green manufacturing system, guide green production and lifestyle, steadily improve green development, and realize the shared development of achievements.

Yan Yan shared the topic of "Progress and Prospect of Climate Innovation Action in China's Textile and Garment Industry. She said that promoting the realization of carbon peak and carbon neutrality is a common choice for the global response to the climate crisis. In order to implement the emission reduction commitments, the world's major economies are accelerating the improvement of the basic institutional system and policy system for green development. China's textile and garment industry is facing multiple changes and challenges of green rules, green consumption and green capital. The pioneering action of China's textile industry has been continuously deepened. Among them, the "30-60 China Fashion Brand Carbon Neutrality Acceleration Plan" has achieved remarkable results. Under the background of "double carbon", enterprises should pay attention to industrial energy conservation and carbon reduction, build a green low-carbon supply chain, and develop a circular economy. In particular, they should build a unified green product certification and identification system, establish a full life cycle traceability mechanism for key products, and promote the low-carbon development of the whole supply chain.

Experts from the Energy Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Macroeconomics explained that carbon neutrality is no longer a matter of greenhouse gas emission reduction, but a technological and economic competition under the title of "Energy and Economic Transformation to Achieve Carbon Neutrality Goals. Taking the near-zero emission path of transportation and construction as an example, it is pointed out that the economic and industrial layout may follow the cheap renewable energy and nuclear power in the future. At present, the policy framework for achieving carbon neutrality is gradually established. The textile and garment industry and enterprises must take the "double carbon" goal as the guide, accelerate the construction of a green and low-carbon recycling industrial system, and accelerate the transformation and upgrading to seize the commanding heights and embark on the path of sustainable development.

Li Boyang shared the topic of "New Requirements and Countermeasures for High-quality Green Development of Consumer Goods Industry. At present, the green and low-carbon development of industry shows four major trends from relative emission reduction to absolute emission reduction, from high-carbon economy to low-carbon economy, from "energy saving and emission reduction" to "coordination of pollution reduction and carbon reduction", and from "dual control" of energy consumption to "dual control" of carbon emissions. In view of the green and low-carbon development of the textile industry, he suggested that enterprises should prospectively study the decarbonization development strategy of the consumer goods industry; actively build a new energy resource supply and utilization system; speed up the establishment of a green and low-carbon cycle industrial system with green manufacturing as the starting point; break through the application of key technologies for green and low-carbon development; and establish and improve a management service system that combines government guidance with market mechanisms.

Cheng Xi introduced the green development service platform for the textile industry ("FAIS system"). He said that the FAIS system is a service platform for the green transformation and upgrading of the textile industry under the guidance of the China National Textile and Apparel Council and supported by the World Wide Fund for Nature. It aims to gather resources and forces from all parties and integrate energy-saving diagnosis, water efficiency assessment, product LCA green assessment, factory/park green assessment, water footprint and carbon footprint, achieve co-creation, co-construction and sharing.