The two sessions ended on the 20th. Earlier, at the meeting of representatives of the two textile industry representatives in 2018, Sun Ruizhe, president of China National Textile and Apparel Council, introduced the development of the industry on behalf of the representatives of the China Textile Industry Association. "And related recommendations have attracted the attention of the deputies. Afterwards, they have combined their own work practices to bring these calls and suggestions concerning the development of the industry to the two sessions of the country, which has aroused strong concern. Hereby excerpts of the key elements of the voice of all parties to readers.

At the meeting of the representatives of the National Association of Textiles held by the China Textile Federation, Sun Ruizhe, Chairman of the China Textile Industry Federation, introduced the industry development situation and hot issues.

Representatives of the National Committee of the Textile Industry Association actively provided advice and suggestions at the forum.

Hot Spot 1 Restart Industry Awareness

For a long time, the unbalanced development of the real economy and the virtual economy and the insufficient supply of high-quality real economy have existed objectively. The textile and apparel industry is locked in the impression of traditional industries and low-value-added, labor-intensive industries. It faces unfair treatment that is undervalued in terms of financing, attracting talents, building brands, building commercial channels, and supporting other policies.

China Textile Association recommends:

1. It is recommended that the government redefine the development contribution and industry positioning of the textile and clothing industry in the entire national economic system, and strengthen the active branding and key publicity of the industry brand image. "Technology, fashion, green" is becoming the new orientation of the Chinese textile industry's new label and industry. Advocate society and the public to fully recognize the "new orientation" of China's textile industry in the "innovation-driven science and technology industry, responsible green industry, and culture-led fashion industry" to break the impression of traditional industries and low value-added, labor-intensive industries locking.

2. It is suggested that government departments should strengthen and encourage relevant basic research and dynamic monitoring for the high-quality development of the textile and garment industry. It is suggested that the government should lead and support the development of a high-quality development evaluation and monitoring index system to provide basic support for the entire industry to promote high-quality development.

It is recommended that the government support the improvement of statistical work in the industry. Within the framework of the national statistical system, it should optimize the collection of statistical data concerning key enterprises and industrial clusters, supplement the national statistical data, and provide systematic and normal research support for the promotion of high-quality development of the industry.

On behalf of the members:

Representative Shen Fangyong, chairman of Hubei Tianmen Textile Machinery Co., Ltd. suggested that the government should guide it from multiple aspects: First, encourage the flow of capital to entity manufacturing companies, encourage small and medium investors to invest resources in the industrial economy; the government should not label, so-called labeling Textile industry is a traditional industry, there is a prejudice, ignore it; the second is through various forms of propaganda and guidance, and truly form a social fashion advocating "labor glory, valuable skills, and greatness", so that front-line technical workers have a decent and dignified.

Representative Shao Changjin, chairman of Xinxiang Bailu Investment Group Co., Ltd., proposed to raise awareness of the value of the entire society in the textile industry. It is necessary to increase publicity to let the public know that the textile industry is transforming traditional manufacturing industries by increasing advanced technologies. The new growth momentum should enable the entire society to correctly understand the value and pillar strength of the textile manufacturing industry.

Hotspot 2 "One Belt One Road" Initiative and "Going Out"

At present, China's textile industry has entered a global stage of distribution. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Commerce, from 2003 to 2017, China's textile industry accumulated direct foreign investment of 8.81 billion US dollars, with an average annual growth rate of 18.91%, accounting for 7.61% of the cumulative total foreign direct investment in manufacturing. . Among them, the foreign direct investment stock of the textile industry was 5.57 billion U.S. dollars; the foreign direct investment stock of the textile, clothing and apparel industry was 2.32 billion U.S. dollars; and the foreign direct investment stock of the chemical fiber manufacturing industry was 920 million U.S. dollars.

China Textile Association recommends:

1. It is recommended to support the textile industry in creating landmark projects in the “Belt and Road” key countries. The textile and clothing industry, as a basic civil production industry, is an important area where many countries in the “Belt and Road” are eager to develop industries. It is also the industry that is most operative, popular, and capable of producing significant win-win results. At present, the country has invested a large amount of resources for the “One Belt and One Road” initiative, with a special fund for foreign exchange reserves worth hundreds of billions of U.S. dollars, “two excellent” loans, and foreign aid projects, but the sense of gain for textile companies is not high. Based on this, it is recommended that countries should adopt policies that are tilted to support the textile industry (mainly relying on backbone enterprises) in key countries such as Vietnam, Burma, Pakistan, Uzbekistan using interest-free loans, equity cooperation, and foreign aid. Stan and other countries have created iconic projects for cooperation in the textile industry, including but not limited to the modernized textile industrial parks in the entire industrial chain and textile industry clusters in subdivided industries.

2. While the industry is striving to improve the overseas investment risk identification and management capabilities, it calls on the relevant state departments to attach importance to the protection of overseas interests in the textile industry.

3. It is recommended that the country do a good job in statistical analysis and policy formulation of overseas investment. In the next step, we hope that the government can actively support China Textile Association to organize the basic data collection and analysis of offshore investment and overseas operations of the industry. On this basis, it is strongly recommended that the Ministry of Commerce, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issue the "Guidelines for International Cooperation in the Belt and Road for the Textile Industry".

On behalf of the members:

In the process of participating in the “Belt and Road” initiative, Chinese textile companies are also faced with problems such as difficult project financing, high financing costs, and inadequate supporting policies.

Chen Lifen, chairman of Jiangsu Sunshine Group, suggested that the first is to share policies and reduce financing costs. It is recommended that financial institutions should equate state-supported and encouraged enterprises’ projects with outbound projects with national key projects, support enterprises in enjoying the same preferential policies in terms of financing, give preferential interest-free loans in the first three years, and then give preferential treatment with an annual interest rate of no more than 3%. The second is to improve related supporting policies, strengthen services, and simplify examination and approval procedures. It is recommended that the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Foreign Administrative Bureau, the commodity inspection, customs, and other competent authorities take various measures to provide convenience and opportunities for Chinese enterprises to establish outreach channels, make clear service routes, and set up special windows.

Deputy Chairman Qiu Yafu of Shandong Ruyi Technology Group Co., Ltd. said that the first recommendation is that the country should support the textile industry to create landmark projects in key countries along the “One Belt and One Road.” The country has invested a large amount of political and economic resources for the “One Belt and One Road”, a special foreign exchange reserve fund of hundreds of billions of U.S. dollars, “two excellent” loans, and a number of foreign aid projects. We hope that the country will use interest-free loans, equity cooperation, foreign aid, etc. Support the textile industry (mainly relying on backbone enterprises) in key countries along the “Belt and Road”, such as Vietnam, Myanmar, Pakistan, Egypt, and Cambodia, to create landmark projects for textile industry cooperation, including but not limited to modern textiles Industry parks in the industrial chain and textile industry clusters in subdivided industries.

Second, it is recommended that the State provide continuous and effective policy support for the construction of textile industrial parks along the “One Belt and One Road” initiative, especially for the completed and planned industrial parks in the central and western regions, the infrastructure construction in the park, the use of supporting funds, and energy sources. Raw materials, transportation and logistics, etc. are given corresponding and continuous policy support.

Third, it is recommended that the State support the China Textile Industry Federation in collecting and analyzing the basic data of the textile industry along the “Belt and Road” initiative, and timely put forward constructive suggestions for the development of the industry to provide reference for the country to issue corresponding policies.

Fourth, it is proposed to study and formulate the "One Belt and One Road" guidance for the development of the textile industry.

Hotspot 3 Cost Reduction

At present, the high cost of the textile industry is still outstanding. The comprehensive manufacturing costs of the textile industry are at a significant disadvantage in international comparisons, especially the high domestic electricity prices, which are nearly twice that of Vietnam and the United States. With the continuous improvement of equipment automation, digitization, and intelligence, and the large number of electricity substitutions for labor, the problem of high electricity prices has become more prominent.

China Textile Association recommends:

1. Call for the government to continue to promote the reform of the energy system and mechanism. Break the monopoly system of the energy industry system, promote the marketization reform of the energy industry, establish a mechanism for the formation of the energy price market, give play to the decisive role of the market allocation of resources, and gradually reduce the energy costs of enterprises, in particular, promote the direct reduction of electricity prices for enterprises, and ease the cost pressures.

2. Call for the government to continue to advance the reform of taxation and fee system and mechanism. First of all, to further promote the reform of China's taxation system, use the "subtraction" of government revenue, the "addition" of corporate profits, and the "multiplication" of market vitality. Second, advance taxation structure reform and tax rate optimization, and gradually reduce the value-added tax rate for all types of real economy, including manufacturing industries, to further ease corporate tax pressure. Finally, it issued preferential tax policies, implemented precise tax reduction measures, appropriately expanded the coverage of tax incentives, adopted differentiated taxation measures for the textile industry with a strong contribution to employment, increased tax cuts for small and medium-sized enterprises, and paid close attention to policy implementation. Let the policy be implemented and let the company enjoy benefits.

3. Call for the government to continue to advance the reform of the financial system. Accelerate the market-oriented reform of the financial system. Accelerate the promotion of interest rate marketization reform, improve the issuance of government bonds, improve the central bank's interest rate adjustment framework and interest rate transmission mechanism, and accelerate the market-oriented pricing of financial products and services. We will intensify policy support, foster market-based financing guarantee mechanisms, improve the cooperation mechanism for silver shares, expand the scale of guarantee services for small, medium and micro enterprises, and effectively reduce financing costs. Establish and improve the financing service system for SMEs. We will improve the laws and regulations for financing support for SMEs, formulate relevant support policies for SMEs, and establish policy-oriented financial institutions that support SMEs. Promote the construction of a social credit system for SMEs' financial services, address information asymmetry, reduce risks, and reduce financing costs.

4. Call for the government to increase the analysis of the cost structure of the industry and establish basic research support for constructing a cost risk early warning system. Through the establishment of an effective data model for cost monitoring, it helps the industry and companies to obtain a stable environment for cost development and achieve high-quality development.

On behalf of the members:

At present, the comprehensive manufacturing costs of the textile industry are at a significant disadvantage in international comparisons. Shao Changjin’s representative proposed to speed up the reform of the national energy system and reduce the price of electricity. He pointed out that taking the countries along the “One Belt and One Road” as an example, electricity prices in Uzbekistan are even less than two cents, while the prices of electricity for private enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises in China even reach 7 cents per degree. Shao Changjin hopes that the state will intensify efforts in the reform of the energy system and provide stronger competitiveness for the transformation, upgrading and development of the manufacturing industry.

With the continuous improvement of equipment automation, digitization, and intelligence, and the large number of electricity substitutions for labor, the problem of high electricity prices has become more prominent. Wu Yousheng, head of the Weak Power Division of Anhui Huamao Power Plant, suggested further reducing the price of electricity and further reducing the burden on enterprises, so that more and more companies will increase their momentum for transformation and upgrading and make China a truly manufacturing and manufacturing powerhouse.

In addition, Shen Fangyong’s representative stated that at present various social insurance contributions are relatively high, the pressure on enterprises is relatively large, and the burden is relatively heavy. The unified payment of enterprises is much higher than that paid by the autonomous career-seekers, and there is a large difference in the treatment of insurance companies and other personnel. He suggested that first, continue to reduce the proportion of old-age and medical insurance contributions to reduce the burden on enterprises; Second, medical insurance is currently paid for 30 years, it is recommended to pay until the formal retirement; third is to allow companies to pay for the retirement of retired employees Insurance, and can increase the proportion of payment to less than 3%.