Vice Minister of Commerce Sheng Qiuping delivered a speech via video at the opening ceremony. Sheng Qiuping said that the CPC Central Committee and the State Council attached great importance to consumption. The Central Economic Work Conference called for the restoration and expansion of consumption to be given priority. The Ministry of Commerce firmly implemented it, identified 2023 as the "year of consumption boosting", mobilized local, industry associations and enterprises, organized and carried out "6+12+52+N" series of consumption promotion activities, created a strong consumption atmosphere of "enjoying the whole year and benefiting the whole people", and enhanced consumer confidence and vitality.

Sheng Qiuping pointed out that, "Textiles and clothing are the basic needs of people's lives, and a key area to restore and expand consumption. In 2022, China's per capita clothing consumption expenditure will be 1365 yuan, and the sales of clothing, shoes and hats, and knitwear and textiles above the quota will be 1.3 trillion yuan, which is the Political base of consumption and has great consumption potential. Cotton is a natural fiber that grows naturally, and China's cotton textile culture has a long history. Promoting the consumption of cotton textiles and clothing is important for promoting traditional culture, Meeting the upgrading demand for green and healthy consumption, as well as stabilizing the supply chain of the cotton textile industry, is of great significance

Sheng Qiuping emphasized that the "Cotton Textile Consumption Season" jointly launched by the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the General Supply and Marketing Cooperative Society is an important event for the 2023 "Consumption Boosting Year". The event will take three months, with the theme of "Weaving a Better Life Together", to promote high-quality cotton textiles and clothing into e-commerce, shopping malls, hotels, exhibitions, and ultimately into thousands of households. With high-quality textile and clothing supply, it will lead and create new consumer demand, injecting momentum into the recovery and expansion of consumption. It is hoped that all localities, industry associations and enterprises will focus on high-quality products and excellent brands, promote the concept of green consumption, organically combine the expansion of domestic demand with supply side structural reform, organically combine China's super large market advantage with Textile manufacturing's strong manufacturing advantage, organically combine the development of domestic market with the development of international market, promote the transformation of Made in China to Created in China, and the transformation of China's speed to Chinese quality Chinese products are transformed into Chinese brands, and services are built into a Dual circulation.

Based on Effective demand, promote high-quality supply

In his speech, He Yaqiong, Director of the Consumer Goods Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, stated: "The year 2022, which has just passed, is an extremely important year in the history of the Party and the country. We successfully held the 20th National Congress of the Party and outlined the grand blueprint for building a socialist modernized country in all respects. Last year, China's textile and clothing exports reached a new historical high, and enterprises are full of confidence in future development

He Yaqiong pointed out that the manufacturing industry is the main battlefield for expanding domestic demand and high-quality development. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that the implementation of the strategy of expanding domestic demand should be organically combined with the deepening of supply side structural reform. This provides fundamental guidance and guidance for our textile industry to expand domestic demand. The expansion of domestic demand in the textile industry must be Effective demand and meet the people's personalized, diversified and constantly upgrading needs. To deepen the supply side structural reform, we should make efforts to improve the quality and efficiency of the supply system, improve the adaptability of the supply structure to Effective demand, and not form backward production capacity and products that do not meet the development direction and market demand. We should promote the positive interaction and high-level Dynamic equilibrium between Effective demand and effective supply, consumption and investment, domestic demand and external demand.

He Yaqiong emphasized that the textile industry should always work hard to increase variety, improve quality, and create brands. It should adapt to the trend of technological revolution and industrial transformation, continuously exert efforts in areas where there is demand but not effectively met, promote the development of new industries, new technologies, new products, and new formats, and promote cotton textile products to better meet the needs of people's better lives and economic and social development, and create new demands with new supply.

He Yaqiong said that China has a population of 1.4 billion and a middle class of 400 million. The super large market advantage can not only stabilize and expand the domestic circulation Political base, but also leverage and drive the international circulation. China's textile industry has the advantages of complete industrial chain and strong production and supply capacity. While consolidating its position in the domestic market, we should adhere to a high level of opening up, deeply participate in the global industrial division and cooperation, improve the resilience and security of the industrial chain Supply chain resilience, and consolidate and improve the international market share of textiles and clothing.

Satisfying New Consumer Demands with High Quality Cotton

Promote high-quality development of the industry

Sun Ruizhe, President of the China Textile manufacturing Federation, delivered a speech, saying that in the past three years, a series of uncertain and unstable factors, such as the persistence of the COVID-19, insufficient market demand, unsmooth operation of the supply chain, fluctuations in raw material prices, and rising trade environment risks, have formed a serious test for China's textile industry. Faced with complex external situations, the resilience of industry development has been fully unleashed, and the stable operation advantages of a complete industrial system continue to emerge. The total export value of textiles and clothing in China has exceeded 300 billion US dollars for three consecutive years, reaching a new historical high in 2022. Under the test of the epidemic, the industry has continuously played an important role in stabilizing economic operation and balancing international payments, and is a stabilizer and ballast for China's national economy and social development.

Sun Ruizhe believes that through years of development, the textile industry has gone from meeting material needs to meeting spiritual needs, from improving quality of life to improving health quality, from promoting consumption upgrading to promoting industrial upgrading, increasing varieties, improving quality, and creating brands, in line with the main contradictions and changes in society, effectively meeting the growing demand for a better life for the people. At the same time, the industry has also driven the employment of over 20 million people in society with its huge employment capacity and innovation and entrepreneurship space. The development of the industry directly benefits "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers", not only driving natural fiber production, but also providing difficult and promising employment opportunities for rural labor transfer. The development of the industry makes the process of Common prosperity visible and tangible.

Sun Ruizhe pointed out that over the years, the Chinese textile industry has been practicing the path of technology, fashion, and green development. With high-quality development and historic achievements, it has established an industrial image of "innovation driven technology industry, culture led fashion industry, and responsibility oriented green industry", We have firmly established the industrial positioning of "pillar industries for national economic and social development, basic industries for solving people's livelihood and beautifying life, and advantageous industries for international cooperation and integrated development", and outlined the industrial vision of "the main driver of world textile technology, an important leader in global fashion, and a strong promoter of sustainable development". I believe that the launch of the China Textile Federation Spring Joint Exhibition and the "Cotton Textile Consumption Season" will inject new impetus into the high-quality development of China's textile industry under the new situation.

Sun Ruizhe, on behalf of the Textile manufacturing Federation of China, sincerely invited business enterprise platforms, local governments at all levels, local industry associations, textile industry clusters, and key textile enterprises to participate in the "cotton textile consumption season", to jointly witness the textile industry to forge ahead and forge ahead in a complex and severe situation, and to jointly write a new chapter of high-quality development of the textile industry.

Production and sales coordination, strong alliance

The "Cotton Textile Consumption Season" officially sets sail