Xia Dongwei, President Of Qingdao University: Enhance Shandong'S Textile Industry Innovation And Build A World-Class Industrial Cluster

The textile industry is a sustainable industry accompanying the progress of human civilization, a pillar industry for China's national economic and social development, a basic industry for people's livelihood and beautifying life, and an advantageous industry for international cooperation and integrated development. In 2021, China's total textile fiber processing volume will exceed 60 million tons, accounting for more than 50% of the world's total fiber processing volume, ranking the world's leading position.

At present, there are 210 textile industry clusters in China. The main business income of textile enterprises in the industrial cluster areas accounts for more than 45% of the main business income of the national textile industry. Cluster economy has become an important part of the textile industry.

Xia Dongwei, member of the CPPCC Shandong Provincial Committee and president of Qingdao University, said that the textile industry is a traditional competitive industry in Shandong Province, a trillion level industrial chain, and has formed 28 national industrial clusters, industrial base cities and famous industrial towns. In terms of the output of major products, the output of major products in Shandong textile and clothing industry ranks among the top five in China, of which the output of cotton yarn and cotton cloth ranks first in China, the output of yarn, wool yarn and nonwovens ranks second in China, and the output of pulp products for wool woven fabrics and chemical fibers ranks third in China. In 2022, Shandong Province will list modern textile industry as one of the "new top ten" industries in the transformation of old and new drivers, and will issue the Opinions on Accelerating the High Quality Development of Textile and Clothing Industry, and the Action Plan for 2022 of Shandong Province's Modern Light Industry and Textile Industry. However, in recent years, due to various factors, the international and domestic competitive advantages of Shandong's textile industry have been weakened. It is urgent to transform and upgrade, and break through a number of "choke" technical problems in new fiber materials, green manufacturing, functional textiles, intelligent manufacturing and other fields.

Creative design is one of the key points in the transformation and upgrading of the textile industry. By 2021, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has announced five batches of national industrial design centers. 265 enterprises nationwide have been approved as national industrial design centers, including 25 in the textile and clothing industry, and 10 in our province alone. However, the transformation to industrial value is insufficient, Compared with Shenzhen, a national industrial design center for nonwoven clothing, Shenzhen will have more than 2500 clothing brand enterprises in 2021, of which more than 90% will be self owned brands, with an annual sales volume of nearly 270 billion yuan. Shandong Province urgently needs to improve its creative design ability to become one of the core competitiveness of high-quality development of the textile and clothing industry.

In recent years, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai have seized the opportunity of industrial textiles, comprehensively improved the core competitiveness of industrial textiles, promoted the transformation of textile enterprises in the Yangtze River Delta, and made new strides. Shandong Province should seize the current favorable opportunity to accelerate the construction of the textile industry innovation system, enhance the core competitiveness of the industry, and build Shandong's textile industry into a world-class industrial cluster.

Xia Dongwei pointed out that at present, there are still some problems in the prevention industry in Shandong Province.

First, large size and weak comprehensive competitive advantage. The textile industry in Shandong Province is dominated by production and processing, most of which are at the middle and low end of the value chain. The ability of fine and deep processing is relatively weak, the proportion of terminal products is not high, and there are few products with high added value, especially those with core technology and pricing power, and there are few emerging leading and technology-based chain owners. Shandong's industrial textile industry started late and developed slowly. It has an influence in China in terms of personal protection, cable and geotechnical engineering, but its distribution of industrial textiles in the fields of health care, environmental protection, construction and transportation, aerospace and other fields still lags behind other provinces.

Second, the independent innovation ability of enterprises is not strong. Most of the textile and clothing enterprises are private enterprises, which are unable to independently introduce and maintain innovative talents, and have no suitable platform and channel to obtain the required scientific research achievements. They want to produce, produce, introduce, and promote their own innovation. As a result, no independent intellectual property rights have been formed in the research and development of "choke" key products and technologies such as new fiber materials and smart textiles, and the processing capacity of advanced textile, dyeing and finishing technology and high value-added textiles also needs to be improved.

The third is the lack of impetus for achievements transformation in Shandong Province. The scientific and technological innovation resources of the textile industry are scattered, and the local transformation rate of achievements of textile universities and research institutes is low. At the same time, there is a shortage of innovative talents, the number of academic leaders is far from meeting the scale of industry development, and the related basic theoretical research and multidisciplinary comprehensive research capabilities are also relatively weak.

In this regard, Xia Dongwei proposed three measures.

First, the "Advanced Textile Innovation and Entrepreneurship Community" in Shandong Province was established. Use the innovative resources of colleges and universities to "string beads into a chain", gather many innovative elements, optimize the allocation of scientific and technological innovation resources of Shandong textile industry, promote the deep integration of Shandong textile industry chain, innovation chain, capital chain, and talent chain, and improve the ability to lead and support industrial development. Focusing on the industrial innovation needs of ecological textiles, advanced fiber materials, medical textiles, textile intelligent manufacturing and other industries, we will overcome the technical problems of the upstream and downstream industries, realize the transformation of new and old kinetic energy of the textile industry, improve the position of Shandong's textile industry in the value chain, and shape a new ecology of innovation and entrepreneurship in the textile industry.

The second is to prepare for the construction of "National Advanced Textile Technology Innovation Center (Ministry of Science and Technology)". With the "National Advanced Printing and Dyeing Technology Innovation Center (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology)" that has been built and operated, it has formed the trend of "one body and two wings" innovation and development of scientific and technological innovation in Shandong textile industry, highlighting the leading role of leading enterprises in Shandong textile industry and the disciplinary advantages of colleges and universities, gathering the open innovation resources of Shandong Province and even the whole country's textile industry, and establishing an enterprise oriented, market-oriented The high-end technological innovation system with deep integration of industry, university and research, seize the commanding heights of technological innovation in the global textile industry, focus on basic research, technological research and development and industrialization, break through the common key technological bottlenecks in the textile industry, create a new cluster of high-end textile industry, and create a new highland of textile technology progress.

The third is to strengthen the cultivation of creative design talents and strengthen the construction of "national industrial design center". Focus on strengthening the design foundation of textile equipment, process technology, finished clothing and other manufacturing industries, cultivate high-end manufacturing design talents, and strengthen the design subject of textile and clothing industry; Encourage original design, develop independent design brands, improve product added value, promote the integration of traditional crafts and modern industrial design, form a batch of new and high-end products with distinctive cultural creativity, integrated energy conservation and emission reduction, modern information technology, and international and domestic leading products, and enable the high-quality development of textile and clothing industry cluster.