In recent years, China's textile industry has made new progress in “going out”. Tianhong, Blum Oriental, Huafu Color Spinning, Youngor, Lutai, Xindadong, Yulun and other enterprises have invested more than 2.5 million spindles in Vietnam, and cotton yarn production exceeds half of Vietnam's total output. Large-scale knitwear enterprises such as Shenzhou International, Jifa and Dongdu have basically built a single-in-one mode of close cooperation between domestic and Southeast Asian production capacity. Sponsored by China National Textile and Apparel Council, China Council for the Promotion of International Trade Textile Industry Branch, China Textile International Capacity Cooperation Enterprise Alliance, Jiangsu Provincial Economic and Information Technology Commission, Jiangsu Textile Industry Association, 2017 China Textile Industry “Going Global” Conference It was held in Nanjing soon. Gao Yong, secretary of the Party Committee and Secretary General of the China National Textile and Apparel Council, said at the conference that in the near future, overseas investment in China's textile industry has accelerated, the initiative of enterprises in international layout has been significantly enhanced, and the breadth and depth of the international layout of the textile industry have expanded. The international layout of the textile industry can play a strong supporting role in the construction of a strong country, and it will have a positive interaction with the transformation and upgrading of the industry in China.

The “Belt and Road” construction brings opportunities for the textile industry to “go global”

In March 2015, the Chinese government issued the “Vision and Action for Promoting the Construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road”. The “One Belt, One Road” initiative has received positive response and support from more than 100 countries and international organizations. And participation, and achieved fruitful results. It can be said that the “Belt and Road” has become a reality from the concept step by step, from the blueprint to the cooperative action of all parties.

Gao Yong said that for the Chinese textile industry, the “One Belt, One Road” “Six Corridors and Six Roads Multi-Country Multi-Port” pointed out overseas key investment regions and countries. The “China-Zhongnan Peninsula” in the six economic corridors is currently the capital of green space investment in China's textile industry. The China-Brazil, Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar and China-Central Asia Economic Corridors are rich in the development of textile industry factor resources, in Africa, such as Ethiopia. Such pioneering and demonstrating countries also have great potential to develop the textile industry.

At the same time, the “Belt and Road” “Five Links” is accelerating the creation of a deep-integrated international and domestic market and a more suitable overseas investment environment, providing a higher quality factor resource supply and unified market for the domestic and overseas linkages of Chinese textile enterprises. With the connection of large-scale infrastructure interconnection and economic and trade infrastructure, regional financial capital, talents, labor, energy, raw materials and products are expected to be more orderly, fast and freely flowing, which will significantly enhance the efficiency of textile supply chain cooperation in the region. In order to create a good environment for Chinese textile enterprises to coordinate production capacity and vertically integrate the industrial chain in different countries in the region. At the same time, the input and mutual commitment of many political, diplomatic and economic resources will create a safe and stable medium- and long-term economic and geographical environment for Chinese textile enterprises along the “Belt and Road” countries.

China's textile industry "goes out" speed

According to the statistics of the Ministry of Commerce, from 2003 to 2016, China's textile industry realized a total foreign direct investment of 7.63 billion US dollars, with an average annual growth rate of 28.25%, accounting for 7.89% of the total foreign direct investment of the manufacturing industry during the same period. Among them, the foreign direct investment stock of the textile industry was 4.73 billion US dollars, the foreign direct investment stock of textile and garment and apparel industry was 2.059 billion US dollars, and the foreign direct investment stock of chemical fiber manufacturing was 842 million US dollars.

Gao Yong said that these data show that overseas investment in China's textile industry is accelerating. Since the outbreak of the global financial crisis, China's textile industry has significantly accelerated its foreign direct investment, with an average annual growth rate of 30.88%. In the two years of 2015 and 2016, the total amount of foreign investment in the textile industry accounted for more than half of the total stocks since 2003. In particular, the foreign direct investment in the textile industry reached US$2.66 billion in 2016, an increase of 89.3% year-on-year.

At the same time, the awareness of the company's initiative to carry out international layout has been significantly improved. According to Gao Yong, the determination and efficiency of some enterprises to transform their internationalization consciousness into overseas investment actions are no small feat. More and more key enterprises have changed from the “passive overseas layout” requested by customers to the “active overseas layout” after deliberation. Taking the investment of the Sunshine Group, which attracted attention last year, as an example, its project, decision-making, engineering construction, and personnel training are all being promoted efficiently. For example, Luthai currently has a very complete industrial chain project from spinning to garment manufacturing in Vietnam, and three garment factories in Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar are fully operational. More and more textile companies realize that the initiative to carry out the new capacity and target market at the global level will help enterprises maintain an international competitive advantage.

In addition, the breadth and depth of the industry's international layout have expanded. In the past two years, overseas investment in China's textile industry has continued to show multi-regional, multi-industry and multi-form advancement, while the breadth and depth have expanded. From the perspective of overseas investment regions, the transnational greenfield investment in production capacity is mainly based on Southeast Asian countries (Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar), and the investment stock is clearly leading. From the global active integration of high-quality resources in the industrial chain, the main investment areas of raw material resources, design and development, high-end technical resources, brand resources and market channel resources are developed countries in Europe, America and Japan, as well as some countries with abundant raw material resources, such as France and Italy. Australia, Canada and New Zealand, among them, the wish to complete the acquisition of the French SMC P fashion group has attracted much attention. From the perspective of sub-sectors, the cotton spinning and garment industry is still a hot spot for overseas greenfield investment. The transnational allocation of production capacity in printing and dyeing, fabrics, home textiles and chemical fiber is beginning to take shape. Industrial textiles and textile machinery products are mainly based on product exports.

Regarding the focus of the next international layout of the textile industry, Gao Yong said that the international layout of the textile industry can play a strong supporting role in the construction of a textile powerhouse, and it will have a positive interaction with the transformation and upgrading of the industry in China. It is necessary to fully release the international layout to support the construction of a textile powerhouse. Positive kinetic energy.

First of all, the Chinese textile industry can achieve international integration of the industrial chain through international distribution. The transnational transfer of part of the production capacity of the textile industry is an objective law of historical proof. Actively comply with this historical trend, through the green area investment in key regions and key countries, to form a new capacity accumulation of China's textile industry capital, can maximize the formation of the "China local + overseas key areas" productivity optimization layout, maintain and Enhance the core position of China's textile industry in the international supply chain.

Second, China's textile industry can achieve the status of the industry's global value chain through international distribution. Industry associations support industry enterprises to actively acquire high-quality resources of the global textile industry chain through overseas investment mergers and acquisitions, enhance the core competitiveness and development potential of the industry, and expand the global development space of China's textile industry.

In addition, through the international layout cooperation, we will actively realize the global market to connect with the global market, cultivate a group of multinational manufacturing enterprises and fashion groups based on China, and at the same time drive a group of developing countries to achieve win-win development, which is to realize China's textile industry. The proper meaning.

Editor in charge: Xu Yuehua