【Hundred Years of Struggle and Set Sail on a New Journey】Fashion Power to Build a Powerful Country in Clothing
The clothing industry is a basic consumer goods industry and a civilian production industry that creates a beautiful and fashionable life. It is also an innovative industry that intensively reflects technological progress, social and cultural development and changes in the times.
There are 170,000 garment enterprises in China, 16.2 million employees in the whole industry, and a total annual output of 71.2 billion pieces of garments.
In 2020, the total apparel sales in the domestic market will be 4.5 trillion yuan, and the export will be 137.4 billion U.S. dollars.
China is the world's largest garment producer, exporter and most potential consumer market.
Especially since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, facing a brand-new development environment, China's apparel industry has closely focused on the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee, promoted supply-side structural reforms and the "three-product" strategy, and accelerated the quality of industrial economic development, efficiency changes, Driven change, product supply level and development capabilities have been steadily improved, industry growth and quality, structure, and pattern complement each other, and overall it has become one of the world's clothing manufacturing powers.
The structure of China's apparel industry is continuously optimized, international development is actively promoted, the industry layout structure has been significantly improved, and the global resource allocation capability has been significantly improved. The eastern, central and western regions have gradually formed a clear division of labor, interconnection and interaction, domestic and international markets, and two resource synergy The new industrial pattern of development and utilization.
On the one hand, industry enterprises have promoted the development of industrial manufacturing paradigm toward intelligent manufacturing and service-oriented manufacturing through technological transformation and high-tech applications. The industry continues to have the advantages of high-quality R&D and manufacturing of multi-level and diversified products.
At the same time, a large number of outstanding Chinese original clothing brands have grown rapidly, making continuous breakthroughs in lifestyle exploration, product research and development, aesthetic expression, model innovation, system management, and integration of resources at home and abroad. Not only have they been recognized by consumers, they have also become industrial upgrades. The leading force for development.
More importantly, my country's clothing industry is continuing to innovate in the integration of diverse cultures, and is committed to building a cultural value system based on Chinese culture as the core connotation, and building the most fundamental fashion force in the construction of a clothing power.
In the face of unprecedented changes in the world in a century and the requirements of building a new development pattern, we have sounded the clarion call to build a strong clothing and fashion nation.
We will build a batch of world-class clothing and fashion brands with the support of scientific and technological fashion that penetrates the entire ecosystem of the industry, the cultural creation guided by the oriental cultural spirit, and the responsibility development with sustainability as the core. When the socialist modernization is basically realized, the Chinese garment industry will be built into a fashion power that has creativity, contribution and promotion to the world.
(Source of this article: Economic Daily Author: Chen Dapeng, Vice President of China Textile Industry Federation and President of China Garment Association)