How Can Bengbu's Textile Industry Shine Again?

A conference focused on Bengbu to see the future. The twenty-fifth China International Chemical fiber conference, which has just concluded in our city, has not only brought a brainstorming to Bengbu, focusing on new technologies and exploring new practices, but also promoting the development of our textile and garment industry in a green, high-end and chain oriented manner.

Visit the Minfeng textile firm: stick to the main business and win the future.

"In the glorious era of Bengbu's textile industry, our factory basically belongs to the category of" no row on the top ". Who would have thought that only now our factory has been guarding the" Jiangshan "until now, becoming the only enterprise in the" textile department "of more than 40 enterprises that has survived so far.

Wang Bin, general manager of Bengbu Minfeng Textile Co., Ltd. In 1982, in the most brilliant era of textile in Bengbu, he plunged into the Bengbu second textile mill, which was still in preparation for the year, started from the technician of the equipment and went to the factory director. So far, the factory has not been left for half a step. It is hard to get to the first year of the flower from a little boy who is under 20 years old.

On the afternoon of September 2nd, the reporter found "No. 85 of Changqing Road" by means of navigation, and a road trademark accompanied by the birth of "Bengbu second spinning". It is also the location of Bengbu Minfeng Textile Co., Ltd. Walk in, a few strong people can not hug the cedar, tell us the history and time of the factory area.

"To tell the truth, our factory used to be obscure and not very bright at the moment, but we managed to do a good job in textile and deep tillage, and finally we did what a professional person should do." In a small red building at the bottom of the factory, the reporter met Wang Bin. He bluntly said that if there was no gang of guys to concentrate on the textile business with him, "Changqing South Road No. 85" might have been easy.

He said that the decision of the state to compress 10 million spindles in 1999 brought great shock to the national textile industry, and many enterprises did not survive the millennium. Shortly after the reform of state-owned enterprises and the retreat of the state, the textile industry in Bengbu once again swept away. "We are faced with life and death several times."

In his introduction, Minfeng textile has gone through many twists and turns. It can be imagined only from the name of "Bengbu second spinning - kamikon cotton spinning - Minfeng cotton spinning - Bengbu Hua Wan - Minfeng textile".

Fortunately, when the company completed its restructuring in the form of full shareholding in 2002, it adheres to the business philosophy of "gaining benefits for shareholders, bringing benefits to customers, providing opportunities for employees and contributing more to society".

With this in mind, in April last year, Minfeng textile gained the favor of Fengyuan Group, which is now concentrating on promoting the development and industrialization of polylactic acid new products. Fengyuan Group has injected 30 million yuan into the industry, and has started the industrialization practice of polylactic acid new material technology in Minfeng textile, so that Minfeng textile has been reborn. In the second half of last year, a number of high-end spinning equipment from Japan and Switzerland were taken root in the Minfeng textile workshop, and the downstream products of polylactic acid materials were successfully verified, and a series of new products such as polylactic acid clothing, bedding, socks and so on were developed.

After many difficulties and endless hardships, under the big tree of Fengyuan Group, Minfeng textile finally managed to "keep the clouds open and see the moon".

"At present, Minfeng textile is committed to the downstream applications of polylactic acid and other new textile materials and cotton and various chemical fibers. The existing production capacity is 40 thousand spindles, with an annual capacity of 5000 tons. In the future, we hope to expand the scale of production to 300 thousand spindles by delisting into the garden. For the future of Minfeng, Wang Bin is full of confidence.

- loss of industry observation positions

In 1958, the state invested 12 million 610 thousand yuan to build Anhui third textile mill in Bengbu (later called Bengbu textile mill), which not only completed the strategic layout of the textile industry at the national level, but also opened the first year of the textile industry in Bengbu.

In the short span of twenty years since then, Bengbu has owned 403 large and small textile enterprises, of which only 201 cotton textile enterprises have formed a textile industry system which is mainly composed of cotton textile, wool textile, hemp textile, printing and dyeing, clothing, and knitting and chemical fiber, household and industrial textiles, textile machinery and special equipment.

By the 80s of last century, Bengbu textile industry, which has developed and accumulated for twenty years, has entered the "heyday". Data show that in 1985, more than 1/3 of the city's industrial profits came from textiles, and the total output value of Bengbu's textile industry ranks first in the province's "old eight cities".

However, when time slipped into the end of 11th Five-Year, the share of Bengbu's textile industry dropped rapidly to less than five percent of the city's total. By the year 12th Five-Year and 13th Five-Year, the economic contribution of Bengbu's textile industry has weakened to the point of quantifying indicators.

Analysis of the industry, behind the Bengbu textile industry position, no longer behind the scenes, is the result of multiple factors superposition.

Yang Shugen, an old textile man who has witnessed the past and present life of Bengbu textile industry, believes that under the background of the transformation from planned economy to market economy, the textile industry with low technical content and low access threshold has provided a chance for the owners who have some spare cash in the rush to rush into the mass market. "Time has proved that the owners of these workshops are rushing to" get money and go back, "and then come quietly and quietly. He said.

In the eyes of Wang Bin, who worked for 38 years in the textile industry of Bengbu and remained in the textile industry, one after another, the traditional textile enterprises in the historical evolution, because of equipment, technology, efficiency, profits and other factors, were accustomed to the "little wealth and immediate security". "In those days, those who were the most frequent and the most advanced textile enterprises were focused on making textile products after restructuring, and few were left to rely on. He read this way.

The Textile Industry Design Institute of Bengbu Province, which has sighed for the textile industry in Anhui, thinks that the core competitiveness of the textile industry characterized by the technological innovation capability and quick response capability of the textile industry is too weak, which is the main reason leading to the continuous decline of Bengbu's textile industry. Clothing industry is even more so. "Bengbu clothing is mainly OEM, and more than 70% are engaged in processing trade. Apart from having the advantage of labor, it is far behind the coastal cities in the aspects of style design, marketing concept, brand awareness and rapid reaction mechanism. Fabrics and accessories are mainly dependent on the supply from other countries. The development of exhibition, model, advertising and other service industries is lagging behind, and clothing products can only be positioned in the middle and low grade domestic market." The Research Report of this hospital is described in this way.

In the thinking of the "coming people" who have gone through the battlefield and defeated, the emergence of new industries, especially strategic emerging industries, has greatly squeezed the survival space of traditional textile industry.

The bright younger generation

The textile industry is attracting more and more attention, and it is much more direct to build a brand by export-oriented than by self cultivation.

In 2011, when the textile industry in Bengbu was on the wane, Huafang group's cotton spinning project entered the Wuhe Chengnan industrial park with a huge amount of 1 billion 500 million yuan, which undoubtedly injected new vitality and hope to Bengbu's textile industry.

This is not only because the Huafang group has the bright label and strong strength of "China's top 500 enterprises", "the world's first production of wool spinning" and "the world's second cotton spinning production", not only because the 410 thousand spindles cotton textile project settled in Wuhe has exceeded the total sum of all cotton spinning items before Bengbu. More importantly, the "centripetal force" effect behind it and the support of advanced equipment, exquisite workmanship and broad market have promoted Bengbu's confidence in the textile industry with Wuhe Chengnan Industrial Park as a platform and carrier.

Zhang Xinying, deputy director of the Wuhe County investment and foreign cooperation center, said in an interview that the "grape string effect" brought by Huafang cotton spinning to Wuhe textile industry once brought about 37 items of textile and clothing industry in Chengnan Industrial Park, including "Huayun wool spinning, global textile, new and yarn industry, Lida knitting, far east AI socks, and Alice garments" and more than 100 million investment projects, including 4 projects with a scale of more than 100 thousand spindles.

In view of the good momentum of accelerating the gathering of textile and garment industry, the five rivers are ready to create the slogan of "Northern Anhui Textile City", and further set the textile and clothing industry as the first industry in the county. Special industrial support policies are put forward, and the county's strength is supported from the aspects of fixed assets subsidies, multi-storey factory subsidies, factory housing rental subsidies, enterprise initial stage support and loan discount.

In addition to the policy, Wuhe County also adopts the strategy of "going out and coming in", and extensively inviting investment in textile industry. Last year, Wuhe County Party and government leaders brought their own teams to visit the textile towns such as Changxin, Shengze and so on in Zhejiang. They finally promoted the two textile enterprises to settle down and set up Anhui five and textile industrial parks, and successfully opened the cards in March 28th of this year. Some media have defined this as "the start of the five rivers' textile aircraft carrier".

As the "initiator" and "leader" of Wuhe textile industry, Huafang cotton spinning is considering upgrading the three phase project after completing the first and two phase investment: upgrading old equipment, looking for new products replacement, and adding high value to the downstream of the industrial chain.

At 10:00 a.m. on August 30th, reporters in the Huafang cotton textile Office District saw Li Hongfeng, the general manager who was preparing for the afternoon's customer visits. He told reporters that under the double stimulation of China's low-end textile market under the continuous extrusion of Southeast Asian exports and the Sino US trade frictions and tariffs, Huafang cotton spinning must consciously avoid the low-end product market, re find the living space and product positioning, and connect with the downstream textile, home textiles and clothing industry as soon as possible.

The way to survive is to be self reliant. Faced with changing market variables, traditional textile enterprises must continue to carry out "fitness campaign", such as technological transformation, independent innovation, brand strategy and so on, are all good starting points.

As a matter of fact, any industry or industry can form agglomeration through attracting large enterprises and attracting powerful enterprises. It is far more direct and direct than the reality of self-cultivation to build brands by export-oriented force.

Data show that in 2018, the output value of textile and garment industry in Wuhe County reached 5 billion 641 million yuan, and the proportion of business (Sales) revenue accounted for more than 30% of the total output value of the whole park.

The Future Star Talents Competition

The polylactic acid materials produced by Fengyuan Group will directly promote our textile and garment industry to a new journey.

In the past few days in September, he attended the twenty-fifth China International Chemical fiber conference, the representatives of experts and scholars and entrepreneurs from the chemical fiber industry in nearly 20 countries and regions. The polylactic acid particles, polylactic acid spindles and polylactic acid clothing, bed products, underwear and socks are attracted by their numerous curious and amazing eyes.

As the first batch of enterprises engaged in biochemical manufacturing in China, Fengyuan Group has been studying and exploring for more than 20 years, and has fully grasped the whole industrial chain production technology of lactic acid fermentation, extraction, polymerization and downstream polylactic acid fiber products. Now it has entered the key stage to promote the transformation of this technology achievement.

"We creatively extract lactic acid from biological materials such as corn, cassava, waste crop straw, produce polylactic acid, produce polylactic acid fiber, then spin into ingots and make finished products. The fabrics made of it are non-toxic, bacteriostatic, anti mite and flame retardant, representing the new trend of the global textile industry's future development." Through the introduction of Chen Liping, vice president of Fengyuan Group, we can see that Bengbu's insisting on promoting the development and application of polylactic acid new materials not only opens up a new path for the green development of the global textile industry, but also provides a new space for the development of cotton textile and petroleum chemical fiber textile. It will also directly promote our textile and garment industry to a new journey.

In order to accelerate the R & D, processing and application of polylactic acid downstream products, Fengyuan Group founded Anhui Fengyuan biological material Limited by Share Ltd in 2016, mainly undertaking the validation of raw material indicators of polylactic acid chips, developing downstream products such as polylactic acid fiber and so on. In June 2017, the world's first 1000 ton class PLA fiber production line was set up, the annual production line of 3000 tons of PLA fiber and yarn products.

In April last year, Fengyuan Group organized a seminar on the research and application of polylactic acid, and invited more than 100 representatives from the China Textile Industry Association, industry colleges and universities, as well as the upstream and downstream enterprises of the industrial chain such as fiber, spinning, dyeing, knitting, clothing and so on. At the end of last year, the 2018 China Textile Science and Technology Conference and the China textile home brand influence award ceremony, held in Bengbu last year, and the China International Chemical fiber conference, which were just concluded, all filled with the good intentions of Fengyuan Group to promote the downstream processing and application of polylactic acid and promote the development of the whole industrial chain.

In order to help Fengyuan's "star of the future" to achieve its wish as soon as possible, and to redefine the textile and garment industry in Bengbu, the municipal development and Reform Commission made clear in the newly released "Bengbu bio based materials industry development plan", which is based on the 1 million tons / year polylactic acid resin deep processing industrial chain, which is based on Bengbu's industrial chain extension. The scale of PLA production for textile and downstream textile products is 700 thousand tons / year. The main products include polylactic acid staple and filament, downstream processing products such as yarns, textile fabrics, garments, nonwovens and so on.

By 2025, the spinning planning will form 300 thousand spindles of PA56 pure spinning and blending functional spinning, with an annual output value of 1 billion 200 million yuan, and the fabric planning will form 25 thousand tons of knitting and 240 million meters of weaving, achieving an annual output value of 11 billion yuan. The layout of non-woven fabric will form 9000 ton production scale and achieve an annual output value of 360 million yuan.

This shows that with the polylactic acid "catfish" stir Bengbu textile industry, the future is clear.

- reporter's notes

Only fusion innovators, strong and joint developers win

Yu Xiaoqiao

On the timeline of the development of the textile industry in the whole province, Bengbu was once a shining star, representing the glory of a city in an era.

However, history is the witness and also the people of the desert. In the flood of history, the textile industry in Bengbu was mostly washed away, and there were few survivors left. How should we interpret this short-term prosperity and rapid retreat?

Not to mention the impact of macroeconomic policies and external factors, because this is a common encounter among all the enterprises in the industry. From the individual level of enterprises, alone, fighting alone, and even the long term vicious competition brought about by the same industry, the industry micro ecosystem has directly led to the situation of "hard hitting and unmanned assistance". Coupled with the idea of "seeing money in the future" and letting them spend money on equipment and technology, they are unwilling to spend money on equipment and technology, and are willing to "stay in the booth and spend time".

On the contrary, the Anqing textile mill that once learned and learned from Bengbu, and the Jiangyin third woolen mill with the same coarse wool background with the first woollen mill in Bengbu, has ushered in their high gloss moment with the strong resilience, precise anticipation and pioneering spirit. The former is Anhui Huamao Group. It is a large conglomerate who has been among the top 20 competitive enterprises in China's cotton textile industry for many years and owns the whole industrial chain of cotton, spinning, weaving, printing, dyeing, clothing and clothing retail textile and garment. The latter has been transformed into a national clothing brand "Hai Lan's home".

How to go out of the road of clustering, industrialization and branding in the textile and garment industry? It is clear that the above two successful cases have provided a typical demonstration. Scanning the existing textile and garment sector in Bengbu, Wuhe has already made great efforts in the development of industrial cluster clusters. Fengyuan Group's exploration and development of the whole industry chain development mode is also actively promoting. If they can unswervingly open up innovation and develop together, one day in the future, the title of "Textile City", which has been lost for many years in Bengbu, can be recalled.