The operation of the chemical fiber industry demonstrates resilience
According to the National Bureau of Statistics, China's chemical fiber production in 2022 was 64.88 million tons, a slight decrease of 0.55% year-on-year; The chemical fiber industry achieved a revenue of 1090.074 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.32%; The total profit was 24.129 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 62.22%.
However, overall, the operation of China's chemical fiber industry still shows a certain degree of resilience.
According to the data of the National Bureau of Statistics, the completed amount of fixed assets investment in China's chemical fiber industry will increase by 21.4% year on year in 2022. According to Chinese customs data, China's chemical fiber export volume in 2022 was 5.6545 million tons, an increase of 8.76% year-on-year. This reflects the increasing demand in the international market and the improvement of the competitiveness of China's chemical fiber products.
Sun Ruizhe, President of the China Textile Industry Federation, pointed out that the development of fiber materials is the source and precursor of industry design innovation, process innovation, equipment innovation, and product innovation. In 2022, chemical fiber accounted for about 85% of China's total textile fiber processing, and China's chemical fiber production accounted for more than 70% of the world. China's total production capacity of high-performance fibers accounted for more than 1/3 of the world. The chemical fiber industry is the fundamental support for China's textile industry's scale advantage, system advantage, and innovation advantage, which determines the depth of innovation, application breadth, and value height of the industry.
Guan Xiaorui, Vice President and Secretary General of China Chemical Fiber Association, introduced that in 2022, the operation of China's chemical fiber industry still showed some highlights. For example, the carbon fiber industry still maintains a high momentum, the scale of the bio-based fiber industry maintains rapid growth, the pace of research and development of differentiated and functional fibers is accelerating, and exports continue to maintain a good growth trend.
Throughout 2023, much attention has been paid to the operational trend of the chemical fiber industry.
Many guests at the meeting believed that throughout this year, China's chemical fiber industry is expected to usher in a trend of bottoming out and stabilizing development. In the long run, the fundamentals of accelerating the transformation and upgrading of China's chemical fiber industry and its long-term development have not changed, and there is still considerable development space and potential.
"This year, the domestic demand market for textile and clothing in China has a stable recovery foundation, but the pressure on the export market is expected to increase. From the perspective of production capacity, the production capacity of the chemical fiber industry is still likely to maintain inertial growth. Overall, the operation of the chemical fiber industry still depends on the recovery of demand in the downstream textile market." Guan Xiaorui said that the development focus of the chemical fiber industry this year includes adhering to the "three products" strategy, Increase efforts to support technological innovation and continue to deepen supply-side structural reform; Develop international markets, seize the opportunities and momentum of export growth of chemical fiber products, and explore overseas markets.
In addition, the China Chemical Fiber Association also reminds chemical fiber enterprises to grasp the investment rhythm and make rational investments.
Grasp the key points in moving towards high quality
How does the chemical fiber industry promote high-quality development? Sun Ruizhe made three suggestions.
First, strengthen technological innovation and promote high-end and safe development. Adhere to optimizing resources, improving the scientific and technological innovation system, creating a globally influential industrial scientific and technological innovation platform, and promoting the deep integration of innovation chains, industrial chains, capital chains, and talent chains. Adhere to self-reliance and strengthen basic research. Strengthen the development of key technologies and equipment in high-performance fibers and their composites, bio-based raw materials, and bio-based fibers, and promote industrialization and large-scale application. Adhere to safety and stability, and strengthen technical support. Accelerate the research and development of fiber technologies such as coal chemical production, promote the diversification and sustainable development of raw material sources, and promote the formation of a safer and more reliable industrial chain supply chain.
Second, accelerate manufacturing upgrading and promote green and intelligent development. Accelerate the digital transformation of the chemical fiber industry and improve the level of lean and flexible production. Improve the level of robot application, improve the rate of equipment digitization and machine networking in key enterprises, and accelerate the construction of industrial Internet. Promote the application of artificial intelligence and other technologies in the industry. Promote the digitization of the entire manufacturing process and the intellectualization of production equipment, and improve the intelligent manufacturing service platform. With the strategic orientation of carbon peak and carbon neutral goals, promote technological innovation, model innovation, and management innovation, and accelerate the green transformation of the entire industrial chain. Accelerate the development and construction of green factories, green products, green supply chains, and green parks. Give full play to the supporting role of green platforms and systems, and do a good job in green fiber certification and the construction of the China Fiber Zero Carbon Action - Green Fiber Products Trusted Platform. Promote the high value utilization of waste textiles.
Third, expand the application space and promote the integration and value development. The shortage of total demand is a prominent issue facing the current industrial development. Priority should be given to restoring and expanding domestic consumption. Lead supply innovation with consumption upgrading. Further improve the release and research of China's fiber trends, optimize the product structure, and increase the development of functional, intelligent, and environmentally friendly products. Support cross-border applications with product innovation. Focusing on high-performance fibers, expand the application of chemical fiber products in the fields of health, ocean engineering, new energy, infrastructure, aerospace, and military civilian integration. Explore market potential through scenario innovation. Promote cooperation across the entire industrial chain through model innovation and platform innovation, and promote a wider range, wider field, and deeper level of supply and demand matching and factor circulation.
Yu Kun, Director of the Textile Division of the Consumer Goods Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, also made three suggestions.
First, focus on the implementation of policies and strengthen confidence in the development of the industry. The industry should make good use of the released "Guidelines for the High Quality Development of the Chemical Fiber Industry" and existing fiscal, tax, and financial policies, accelerate technological progress and industrial upgrading, achieve higher production efficiency, develop richer varieties, and further enhance the position of the chemical fiber industry in the global textile and clothing industry chain.
The second is to strengthen innovation leadership and enhance the modernization level of the industrial chain. The chemical fiber industry needs to strengthen collaborative innovation in the industrial chain, complement strengths and weaknesses, implement the digital assistance three-product action plan, accelerate digital intelligent transformation, and improve supply capacity and production efficiency. We should vigorously cultivate specialized, specialized, and new enterprises, form an industrial ecosystem for the development of large, medium, and small enterprises, and enhance the overall industrial chain advantage.
Third, promote green transformation and enhance the efficiency of comprehensive utilization of resources. The chemical fiber industry should further strengthen the implementation of the carbon peak implementation plan in the industrial field, accelerate the high value recycling of waste textiles, develop biomaterials and biological manufacturing technologies, and enhance the ability of circular sustainable development; Establish a transparent and traceable industrial chain supply chain, provide more low-carbon green textile consumer goods, promote green production and consumption throughout the life cycle, and enhance the industry's image of environmental responsibility in the whole society.
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