Fifty Years Of Commitment To A New Journey Of Weaving Warp And Weft Continued To Write The Splendid Chapter "Cotton Textile Technology"

The 50th Anniversary of Cotton Textile Technology is the 50th Anniversary of its founding! In the course of half a century, China's textile industry has developed vigorously, from small to large, from weak to strong, and the journals have also grown in size, step by step realizing the leap of excellent journals in the textile industry, national excellent journals, and first-class outstanding scientific and technological journals. In order to commemorate this special historical moment, review the development of Cotton Textile Technology in the past 50 years, unite a wider range of social forces to run the journal, and discuss the future development direction of the journal, on December 10-11, 2023, Cotton Textile Technology held a "50th Anniversary Symposium and the 26th Editorial Committee" in Wuhan. Industry leaders, journal supervisors, sponsors, journal editorial board members, correspondents, award-winning paper authors and other guests attended the meeting. Wang Yangjun, executive director and general manager of Shaanxi Cotton Textile Technology Journal Co., Ltd., presided over the opening ceremony of the meeting, and expressed warm welcome and sincere thanks to the leaders, editorial board members, experts and guests attending the meeting, We sincerely invite you to make suggestions on promoting the integrated development of scientific journals and textile industry.

Duan Xiaoping, Vice President of China Textile Industry Federation, attended the meeting and delivered a speech. In his speech, President Duan spoke highly of the journal's ideas and achievements over the past 50 years. In combination with the current needs of China's comprehensive construction of a socialist modern country, he put forward specific requirements for the journal to grasp the correct journal orientation, and contribute to the construction of a modern textile industry system and high-quality development of China's cotton textile industry. It is pointed out that since the reform and opening up, through the continuous efforts of the vast number of cotton textile workers, China's cotton textile technology has stood at the forefront of the world, with the world's largest cotton textile production capacity, producing the world's highest quality yarn fabric products, and also has a number of the world's most advanced cotton textile enterprises and a large team of high-level cotton textile technology talents. China has become a new source of global cotton textile technology development, and many new technologies have made a breakthrough in China. President Duan stressed that China's cotton textile industry is facing severe challenges. Under the influence of multiple factors such as the adjustment of the layout of the international industrial chain, the adjustment of the regional structure of the domestic industry, digitalization, intellectualization, greening, and in-depth transformation of the manufacturing industry, the continuous high-quality development of China's cotton textile industry needs more powerful scientific and technological innovation. As the only core journal in the cotton textile field, Cotton Textile Technology needs to take the initiative and shoulder the heavy burden, Continue to build a high-level industrial technology exchange position to serve scientific and technological innovation in the cotton textile industry. And I wish "Cotton Textile Technology" to carry forward the past and open up the future, and continue to write more brilliant chapters.

Yan Yan, Secretary of the Party Committee of China Textile Information Center, attended the meeting and delivered a speech. From the perspective of the sponsor of the journal, Yan Shuji mentioned the origin of the publication of Cotton Textile Technology, and appreciated the journal's 50 years of active exploration, bold innovation, dissemination of advanced textile scientific and technological achievements, training of textile scientific and technological talents, and leading textile scientific and technological progress. It was pointed out that currently, the China Textile Industry Federation has issued the Action Plan for Building a Modern Textile Industry System (2022-2035), which launched the medium and long-term strategy for building a modern textile industry system. On November 28 this year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other four ministries and commissions also issued the Implementation Plan for Upgrading the Textile Industry (2023-2025). It is pointed out that sci-tech periodicals are an important part of the industry's sci-tech work and an important sci-tech innovation service platform for industrial technological progress. In the context of comprehensively strengthening the construction of scientific and technological innovation capacity in the textile industry, scientific and technological journals, as the interactive exchange platform of scientific and technological information in the industry, will play a greater role as bridges and links in many aspects such as tracking the forefront of scientific and technological innovation in the industry, reflecting the technological needs of industry enterprises, and promoting the transformation of scientific and technological achievements in the future. It is also expected that Cotton Textile Technology can continue to adhere to integrity and innovation, forge ahead, achieve new breakthroughs, constantly improve the academic level, help the industry to rely on high-level science and technology for self-reliance, and contribute to the construction of a modern textile industry system. It is also eagerly expected that the journal will continue to improve its editorial quality and scientific and technological expertise, expand its topic selection vision, improve the leadership of innovative achievements and the absorption of paper publishing, form a virtuous development cycle, and make new contributions to building China's first-class textile science and technology journals and mastering more academic language rights!

Xu Yuanzhi, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Shaanxi Textile Science Research Institute Co., Ltd., addressed the meeting. The speech pointed out that in the new journey of promoting Chinese style modernization, the textile industry, as the pillar industry of China's national economic and social development, has the advantage of international advanced level. It is the new mission and task of the textile industry to promote the high-quality development of the textile industry, accelerate the construction of a modern textile industry system, and make further contributions in the process of Chinese style modernization. In this context, scientific and technological journals, as an important part of the ecological chain of textile scientific and technological innovation, also bear important responsibilities. In the future work, Cotton Textile Technology should follow the requirements of the "Four Faces" of scientific and technological innovation work, adhere to the development needs of the textile industry, and make breakthroughs in grasping the development direction of journals, actively exploring the construction path of first-class scientific and technological journals, and assisting the scientific and technological progress of the textile industry.

Yang Jiami, editor in chief of Cotton Textile Technology and director of the editorial department, made a review and work report on the 50th anniversary of the founding of the magazine, entitled "Fifty Years of Commitment to a New Journey of Weaving Longitude and Weft, Continuation of Splendid Chapter", summarizing the development process of Cotton Textile Technology and the editorial department's adherence to scientific and technological leadership, improving the quality of editing and proofreading and publishing efficiency, and strengthening the strength of experts in running journals in the past two years It is a beneficial attempt to expand the influence of journals, improve the ability of the service industry, and expand the dissemination of journals, and proposes the direction of future efforts of journals, strengthen the leading role of innovation and advancement, and create the characteristics of professional journals; Stimulate the deep participation of editorial board members and create a model for experts to run journals; Give full play to the brand value of journals and create a scientific and technological service system; Perfect the editing and publishing mechanism and create a modern editing team.

At the meeting, Dong Kuiyong, president of China Cotton Textile Industry Association and editorial board member of Cotton Textile Technology, Xie Ming, honorary president of Jiangsu Textile Industry Association, Gao Weidong, vice president of China Textile Engineering Society, former vice president of Jiangnan University, editorial board member of Cotton Textile Technology, and Yan Lei, former chief editor and editorial board member of Cotton Textile Technology, made speeches, It is believed that for 50 years, the journal has insisted on taking the promotion of scientific and technological progress in the textile industry as its own responsibility, played an active role in building an exchange platform, gathering scientific discoveries, leading scientific and technological development, and cultivating scientific and technological talents, and has made important contributions to boosting China's textile scientific and technological innovation and industrial upgrading. In the future, under the guidance of "four orientations", journals should give full play to the advantages of knowledge dissemination platforms and scientific and technological information services, break the boundaries of disciplines, promote the cross integration of disciplines, create a new track in traditional fields, constantly break through, and promote more scientific and technological achievements to be transformed into new productive forces, so as to achieve self-reliance and self-improvement of high-level textile science and technology, Accelerate the construction of modern textile industry system and make new contributions!

With a sense of responsibility for the development of the textile industry and journals, the editorial board members and experts attending the meeting held a heated discussion on the integration development path of scientific and technological innovation, communication and the textile industry. The content involves the development trend of textile industry, the development direction of science and technology, and the key points of journal topic selection planning; High quality manuscript source expansion approach and expert team building; The characteristics of textile sci-tech periodicals in the new era and the strategies to improve their academic quality; The ideas and measures of implementing the "going out" strategy to build first-class journals; The integrated development path of scientific and technological innovation, technology communication and textile industry; Give full play to the brand influence to improve the journal science and technology service system and the new mode of in-depth service industry. Everyone expressed their own feelings, discussed the future development of the textile industry, exchanged journal publishing measures, conducted in-depth discussions on the problems and puzzles encountered in the development of journals, and put forward many constructive opinions and suggestions, showing the true feelings of the leaders, experts and scholars attending the conference on China's textile industry.

During the symposium, there was also a signature commemoration activity for the 50th anniversary of the founding of the magazine, and at the China Cotton Textile Science and Technology Conference held at the same time, the award ceremony for excellent papers on the 50th anniversary of the founding of Cotton Textile Technology was held.

The symposium commemorating the 50th anniversary of the publication of Cotton Textile Technology and the successful convening of the 26th Editorial Committee clearly defined the next development direction of the journal, which is of great significance for promoting the journal to better serve the textile industry. "Cotton Textile Technology" will guide the next stage of work with the spirit of the conference, continue to earnestly fulfill social responsibilities, inherit the purpose of running the journal for 50 years, take the construction of a modern textile industry system as the guide, adhere to the correct technology leading direction, and establish a new service concept; Focus on interdisciplinary integration, promote academic exchanges and transformation of scientific and technological achievements from multiple perspectives, achieve diversified services, constantly deepen the influence of journals while harvesting good social benefits, lead the scientific and technological progress of the industry, explore new ways for high-quality development of Cotton Textile Technology journals, and make new contributions to the progress of textile science and technology in China.