The 2024 'Cotton Textile Industry Chain Xinjiang Research Trip Activity Ended Successfully

From October 21-30, the cotton textile industry chain Xinjiang research trip was successfully held, which lasted 10 days and covered major textile and clothing industry parks and representative enterprises in Xinjiang. Dong Kuiyong, president of China Cotton Textile Industry Association, led the research trip. Enterprises from upstream and downstream of the cotton textile industry chain and the government of the cotton textile industry cluster participated in the research. The event was hosted by China Cotton Textile Industry Association and undertaken by the Raw Material Industry Chain Branch of China Cotton Textile Industry Association, which was strongly supported by Shanghai Mianlian E-commerce Co., Ltd.

Development of Xinjiang textile and garment industry

Benefiting from good location advantages, resource advantages and policy advantages, Xinjiang is in an important opportunity period of high-quality development. The industrial pattern of coordinated development of local characteristic textile and clothing industrial parks has been formed, with Aksu Textile Industrial City, Korla Economic and Technological Development Zone, Shihezi Economic and Technological Development Zone and Alar Economic and Technological Development Zone as the leading comprehensive textile and clothing base. It is reported that at present, Xinjiang's spinning capacity has reached 27 million spindles, and the products are mainly 32S and 40S pure cotton yarns, which are mainly sold outside Xinjiang. However, with the entry of downstream weaving enterprises, the proportion of cotton yarn digested in Xinjiang is gradually increasing. At the same time, in order to optimize the structure of textile raw materials, Xinjiang will accelerate the construction of synthetic fiber projects, use the existing PX production capacity to build a 1.2 million ton annual PTA project in the petroleum and petrochemical industrial park of Korla Shangku High tech Industrial Development Zone, and then extend the construction of 250000 ton polyester staple fiber, 300000 ton polyester filament and other projects to provide downstream spinning and weaving enterprises with differentiated chemical fiber raw materials, Under the influence of intensified market competition and other factors, some enterprises in Xinjiang began to transform to blended yarn or medium and high count combed products.

In addition to the traditional spinning links, Xinjiang's textile and clothing industry is also actively extending the industrial chain, from cotton planting to spinning, weaving, printing and dyeing, garment manufacturing and other links are gradually improving. Among them, Yining and Aksu regions have large production capacity of jet looms, mainly invested by enterprises in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, and their products are mainly home textile fabrics and tooling fabrics. With the investment of chemical fiber enterprises in the east coast of Alar, the production capacity of water jet looms in the surrounding areas has gathered, and the products are mainly home textiles. In terms of printing, dyeing and finished product manufacturing, Xinjiang is gradually advancing. Printing and dyeing are mainly distributed in regions where weaving capacity is concentrated. Finished products are mainly tooling fabrics, knitted fabrics, socks, gloves and other products.

Xinjiang implements the Regulations on the Review of Fair Competition, and the local subsidy policies formulated by various regions have been stopped successively. At present, the unified subsidy policy in the Notice of the General Office of the People's Government of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Adjusting and Optimizing Policies and Measures for the Cotton, Textile and Clothing Industry in the Autonomous Region (XZBF [2024] No. 16) is implemented throughout Xinjiang. The electricity charge in the south and north Xinjiang has been unified, and the final price is 0.33 yuan/kilowatt hour. In terms of employment, the overall proportion of ethnic minority employees in southern Xinjiang is higher than that in northern Xinjiang. There is a certain gap between the efficiency of enterprises and that of mainland enterprises. The average wage is 4000-5000 yuan/month. In some regions, the average wage is relatively high, which can reach about 7000 yuan/month. Affected by the weak market and insufficient orders, the inventory of Xinjiang textile enterprises is basically about one month at present, and some enterprises fail to open at full capacity, so the profitability is not ideal.

Visiting enterprises' demands

At present, Xinjiang's textile processing is dominated by cotton and viscose staple fiber, with a single product structure and widespread homogeneous competition. Visiting enterprises hope that Xinjiang's textile and clothing industry can reasonably plan the industrial layout when extending the industrial chain, and hope that local governments can actively fulfill their commitments, and at the same time, make good decisions to avoid homogeneous investment, resulting in overcapacity, capital waste and other situations.

The development of the textile and clothing industry needs to rely on diversified textile materials. From the current market situation and the future development trend of the industry, Xinjiang textile enterprises will use more non cotton fiber materials in the future. Visiting enterprises said that due to the lack of industrial support in Xinjiang, some chemical fiber raw materials and non pure cotton yarns need to be transported from the mainland to Xinjiang, and there is no subsidy for the latter products. In general, the production of such products in Xinjiang lacks cost advantages. Differentiated spinning and weaving enterprises hope to speed up the improvement of Xinjiang's textile and clothing industry.

Through this research trip, the members of the research team had a comprehensive and systematic understanding of the production capacity layout, product structure, production and operation costs, future development trends and policies of Xinjiang's textile and clothing industry, and had a clearer judgment and planning of the enterprise's own business focus adjustment, product transformation and capacity transfer.

In the future, the China Cotton Textile Industry Association will continue to actively communicate with industry enterprises, carry out various forms of docking and exchange activities for the content that industry enterprises care about, and promote the coordinated development of upstream and downstream of the cotton textile industry chain.

(Source: China Cotton Association)