On August 5th, the China National Textile and Apparel Council held its mid-2025 work meeting in Beijing, Sun Ruizhe, President of the China National Textile and Apparel Council delivered a report titled "Self-Reliance and Strength: Contributing Textile Power in Building a New Development Pattern" The full text is now published for readers' reference.

Self-Reliance and Strength

Contributing Textile Power in Building a New Development Pattern

Sun Ruizhe, President of the China National Textile and Apparel Council

August 5, 2025

Building a new development pattern with domestic circulation as the main body and mutual promotion of domestic and international dual circulation is a strategic decision for China to respond to changes in the international environment and promote high-quality development. Its most essential feature is high-level self-reliance and strength, which must enhance international competitiveness through innovation and independent control, breaking free from sole reliance on external circulation. Taking domestic circulation as the foundation, creating the economy's "main battlefield," "ballast stone," and "reservoir," and advancing the construction of a unified national market around the "five unifications and one openness" is a strategic move to leverage China's unique advantages as a major economy and a necessary path to hedge against external uncertainties and enhance development resilience and vitality.

Time has compressed and folded; this year has been extraordinarily difficult, with a few months seeming to encompass years of change. Global trade is rapidly shifting, artificial intelligence is advancing by leaps and bounds, causing shocks and reshaping, turbulence and transformation, both distant and near. The China National Textile and Apparel Council has implemented the decisions of the Party Central Committee and the State Council. With the joint efforts of the entire textile industry, the first half of the year saw the industry maintain a steady and positive trend, making solid progress in building a modern textile industry system.

I. Main Work in the First Half of 2025

Amid high winds and rough waves, the rope is strong; through flying clouds, the brocade appears calm.

In the first half of the year, the capacity utilization rates of China's textile and chemical fiber industries were 77.8% and 86%, respectively, both higher than the national industrial capacity utilization level for the same period. From January to June, the added value of the textile industry above designated size nationwide increased by 3.1% year-on-year; per capita clothing consumption expenditure increased by 2.1%; retail sales of clothing, footwear, hats, and knitted textiles above designated size increased by 3.1%; online retail sales of clothing increased by 1.4%. Supported by the national "dual carbon" and "dual new" policies, industry enterprises accelerated upgrades in high-end, intelligent, and green technologies. Fixed asset investment in the textile, garment, and chemical fiber industries increased by 15.1%, 27.0%, and 10.6% year-on-year, respectively. From January to June, China's textile and apparel export totaled 143.98 billion USD, up 0.8%. Trade in intermediate products such as chemical fibers, yarns, and fabrics continued to expand, and overseas investment layouts became more diversified. In this year's Fortune Global 500 list, five Chinese textile companies significantly improved their rankings; 16 textile companies were listed in the Fortune China 500. The industry showed strong vitality, stabilizing the economy, benefiting people's livelihoods, promoting openness, and preventing risks, building the confidence and resilience of a major economy.

2025 is the final year of the 14th Five-Year Plan and a key year for planning the 15th Five-Year Plan. Facing an unstable and uncertain development environment, the China National Textile and Apparel Council earnestly implements the requirements of seeking progress while maintaining stability, promoting stability through progress, adhering to integrity and innovation, establishing before breaking, system integration, and coordinated cooperation. It focuses on technology, fashion, green development, health, and pragmatism in its services, achieving remarkable results in industry work.

(1) Party Building Leadership, Significant Improvement in Style and Capability

Focusing on learning and education, the Party's leadership role continues to strengthen. According to the unified deployment of the Party Central Committee and the requirements of the Party Committee of the National Social Organizations Administration, the China National Textile and Apparel Council actively implements the "In-depth Study and Education on the Spirit of the Central Eight Provisions" as an important political task. It drafted and formulated documents such as the "Implementation Plan for In-depth Study and Education on the Spirit of the Central Eight Provisions of the China National Textile and Apparel Council" and the "Key Work Task List for In-depth Study and Education on the Spirit of the Central Eight Provisions." Through warning education meetings, special Party lectures, special reading classes, and themed Party day activities, it guides cadres and employees to accurately grasp the core essence and practical requirements of the Central Eight Provisions and their implementation rules. It actively implements the "First Topic" system, organizes study sessions for the central group, and promotes the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party in depth. Party organizations at all levels carry out rich learning and education activities such as "Three Meetings and One Lesson" and themed Party days according to Party Committee requirements. Grassroots organization construction and Party member education management continue to improve. It successfully completed the re-election of nine grassroots Party branches and the performance reports of 32 secretaries of directly affiliated grassroots Party organizations; the "Two Excellents and One First" selection and commendation work was smoothly carried out, recognizing 71 outstanding Communist Party members, 15 outstanding Party affairs workers, and 13 advanced grassroots Party organizations; it continuously rectified formalism to reduce burdens on grassroots, further strengthening the political and organizational functions of Party organizations; it deeply carried out ideological work statistics and training, improving the professional capabilities of grassroots personnel.

Guided by efficient collaboration, the association's institutional construction is increasingly improved. According to the development needs of social organizations in the new era, the China National Textile and Apparel Council continuously optimizes internal management and strengthens organizational construction. Some units' leadership teams were adjusted and supplemented, and the Fashion Color Association completed its re-election. The service work of various functional departments effectively ensured the smooth operation of the council and its units.

The Party Committee Office, while solidly advancing thematic education work, continuously deepened the implementation of inspection rectification work, and carried out trade union and youth league work. It held employee table tennis competitions and other activities; prepared to establish the China National Textile and Apparel Council Trade Union Federation, coordinating the construction and improvement of the three-level trade union organizations of the council's management and delegated units; submitted candidates for the National March 8th Red Banner Holders. At the same time, it supported and cooperated with the National Social Organizations Administration to complete related work.

The Discipline Inspection Commission Office highlights supervision as its primary responsibility, assists the Party Committee in implementing the main responsibility, convened a comprehensive strict governance and warning education meeting, signed the "Comprehensive Strict Governance Responsibility Letter" with all Party organizations of management and delegated units, and persistently promotes integrity and discipline. It conscientiously completed the "second half" of the inspection rectification, continuously improved the daily supervision mechanism, carried out various warning education activities, and strengthened the construction of a clean culture.

The Office strengthened organizational coordination and service support functions, upgrading member management services. Key meetings and events such as the work summary conference and the representatives and committee members' symposium were successfully held. It led and coordinated 25 departments to complete the evaluation of national industry associations and chambers of commerce.

The Human Resources Department continued to make efforts in human resource planning, employee training, improving the salary system, and skill talent recognition. It cooperated with the National Social Organizations Administration to complete the assessment of Party Committee re-election candidates, orderly promoted leadership team adjustments, assessments, announcements, approvals, and related matters in various units, as well as some institutional adjustments.

The Finance Department, while managing the accounting and management of the China National Textile and Apparel Council itself, further optimized internal control systems and financial processes, completed service and supervision work for delegated units, and effectively improved risk and financial management capabilities and levels.

The Property Investment Department continuously innovated property management services and content, completed various safety, catering, conference, and engineering management tasks, creating a high-quality, efficient, and safe office environment for everyone.

Foreign Affairs Office/Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office/China Textile International Exchange Center promote industry bilateral and multilateral and regional communication and cooperation, organize and participate in major international conferences such as the International Textile Machinery Seminar of the International Textile Federation, and continuously improve management and service capabilities. Successfully held the 15th Cross-Strait Textile Industry Cooperation Seminar to deepen cross-strait exchanges and cooperation.

The News Office solidly advances ideological work focusing on standardized management, public opinion guidance, coordinated publicity, and channel expansion. It unifies and standardizes external publicity, expands the breadth and depth of communication, and strengthens the effectiveness and influence of publicity.

(2) Research Deepening, Scientific and Effective Decision-making Service

Strengthen industry research. Entrusted by the Department of Consumer Goods Industry of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, preliminary research work on the "14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Modern Textile Industry" has been carried out, and some basic special research drafts have been formed. The "14th Five-Year Plan" research for various sub-industries is progressing steadily. Associations such as chemical fiber, printing and dyeing, knitting, cotton spinning, industrial textiles, home textiles, textile machinery, clothing, and hemp spinning have held special seminars and completed draft plans for soliciting opinions or initial drafts. At the same time, support is provided to local governments at various levels in Xinjiang, Yibin in Sichuan, Huai'an Hongze in Jiangsu, etc., to prepare "14th Five-Year Plan" industrial development plans. During the Two Sessions, assistance was given to industry representatives and committee members to form proposals covering support for the export of domestically produced high-performance fibers and products, improving the quality of Xinjiang cotton, supporting the inclusion of textile intangible cultural heritage products in consumption promotion actions, increasing support for the cocoon and silk industry, building a safe and efficient international supply chain system, promoting recycling and reuse of waste textiles, promoting intelligent textile materials to deeply empower the health and elderly care industry, developing biomedical textile materials, advancing green and low-carbon development in the printing and dyeing industry, improving the coexistence mechanism of fashion industry trademarks, expanding textile and apparel consumption scale based on the "trade-in" policy, promoting the construction of world-class textile industry clusters, and regulating e-commerce operations. Strengthening basic research, a series of results have been formed including the "2024/2025 China Textile Industry Development Report," "China's Textile Industry Trade with the U.S. and Related Policy Recommendations," "Talent Supply and Demand Matching Analysis Map for the Textile and Apparel Industry," "Special Research Report on Carbon Emissions in the Wool Textile Industry during the 14th Five-Year Plan," and "Digital Transformation Scenario Map of the Textile Industry." These related works have strongly supported government decision-making, industry services, and enterprise development.

Deepen research and statistics. China National Textile and Apparel Council and various units have conducted in-depth research to improve the quality and efficiency of industry services. The Industrial Cluster Working Committee conducted research in more than 30 key clusters in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, and other provinces; the Cotton Spinning Association organized a nationwide high-quality development research tour; the Home Textile Association completed in-depth visits to more than 200 enterprises. Continuously improving monitoring and statistics of key data enhances judgment on industry development. In the first half of the year, more than 30 special analysis and related policy recommendation materials on textile industry operation, trade judgment, and production-finance cooperation were submitted to relevant departments, and more than 20 industry situation symposiums were participated in. Adhering to the combination of macro and micro, routine and special, each unit regularly releases enterprise prosperity surveys and industry economic operation analyses, timely and accurately reflecting industry trends, market sentiment, and business information. New tools and methods are used to broaden data collection channels and improve information integration and research quality. Data security and compliance management are continuously strengthened.

(3) Strengthen the Foundation, Industry Quality and Efficiency Steadily Improve

Stabilize demand, ensure stability. Help enterprises alleviate market pressure. Cooperate with relevant ministries to carry out a series of textile and apparel "Quality Supply to Promote Upgrading" activities, effectively releasing consumption and investment demand. Market expansion and docking activities have been fruitful. Successfully organized 9 domestic exhibitions with a total exhibition area of more than 470,000 square meters; organized 6 overseas self-hosted exhibitions with an exhibition area of nearly 10,000 square meters; formed 6 exhibition delegations. Innovate service models to improve supply and demand efficiency. The fabric exhibition created a customer invitation system based on regional differences for the first time; the home textile exhibition conducted business matchmaking according to product characteristics; innovatively established a "KOL Matchmaking" special business matchmaking event, linking internet celebrity brands and e-commerce brands to open new consumption chains. Held local and industry characteristic exhibitions such as the China (Yiwu) International Knitting Supply Chain Expo and the Greater Bay Area International Women's Wear Exhibition (BIRD). Promote the upgrading of professional markets. Guide enterprises to innovate scenarios and expand channels. Held events such as the Tianmen Clothing E-commerce Industry Conference and the Knitting E-commerce Conference. Grasp the trend of enterprises going abroad, regularly update, supplement, and improve the industry overseas investment project database, updating 83 overseas investment projects in the first half of the year.

Stabilize entities, strengthen resilience. Continuously improve enterprise public service platforms to empower enterprises. Seize opportunities such as the "Together to Benefit Enterprises" SME service action, guiding enterprises to understand and make good use of a series of policies promoting the development of the private economy. Carry out work such as the cultivation of specialized and new enterprises into the database and the promotion of the "Textile Industry SME Specialized and New Development Capability Evaluation Specification." Hold specialized and new supply chain matchmaking tours in Quanzhou and integration matchmaking activities for large, medium, and small enterprises to strengthen supply chain services. Guide the industry to establish awareness of rules and strengthen self-discipline management to prevent "involution" and vicious competition. The Enterprise Management Association formulated the "Self-discipline Convention for Safety Production Management of Textile and Apparel Enterprises"; the Chemical Fiber Association revised the "Industry Self-discipline Regulations of the China Chemical Fiber Association"; the Clothing Association issued an industry self-discipline initiative in response to adverse phenomena in the down clothing market. The content and value of production-finance services continue to improve. The scope of textile industry enterprises preparing for listing and innovative incubation projects continues to expand, and the service system is continuously improved.

Stabilize expectations, promote cooperation. Strengthen publicity guidance, introducing industry development through CCTV, People's Daily, Economic Daily, and professional media to convey positive energy. Regarding U.S. tariff issues, China National Textile and Apparel Council issued a statement at the first time, strongly condemning trade hegemony and resolutely safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of the industry. The Industry Department, Foreign Trade Office, CCPIT, Clothing Association, Knitting Association, Home Textile Association, Industrial Textiles Association, and others actively track progress, continuously collect information, monitor and dispatch, conduct research, and cooperate with government departments to respond. Organized enterprises to visit and research regions such as Switzerland, Vietnam, and Kenya. Actively speak out on the international stage, conveying industry positions and statements through platforms such as the International Textile Federation meetings, International Wool Textile Conference, and China-Greece Textile Economic and Trade Exchange Conference, creating a favorable international environment.

(4) Digital Intelligence Empowerment, Steady and Rapid Transformation and Upgrading

Promote innovation and application. From conceptual thinking to methods and tools, and then to platform construction, China National Textile and Apparel Council and various professional associations explore and promote the application of AI technology in vertical fields and segmented scenarios. Focusing on top-level design and path exploration, they conduct special research on "Digital Transformation and AI Application Path in the Textile Industry" and release the "AI Application Analysis Report in the Textile and Apparel Industry" to provide authoritative guidance for the industry. They promote tool innovation. The Information Center continuously optimizes the textile product development data analysis and decision-making platform, AI pattern design platform DPI SPACE functions, empowering color, pattern, fabric, and end product development; the Informatization Department and China Textile Network launch the AI application model AiTA; the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade integrates AI into the exhibition service system, upgrading AI assistant functions to improve service efficiency and experience. They create high-level, multi-layered, professional conferences and competitions to accelerate technology popularization and application. Events such as the China Textile and Apparel AI Conference, China Textile and Apparel Digital Fashion Industry Conference, and AI Empowering Textile Industry Development Forum are held; AI fashion innovation design directions are added to various competitions, launching the AI design contest for cotton-padded clothes and AI apparel design invitational competitions.

Improve platforms and ecosystems. Carry out diagnostic consulting, training experiences, standard development, pilot demonstrations, and publicity promotion. Information infrastructure such as industrial internet accelerates application in clusters, parks, and specialized markets. The Textile Construction Planning Institute supports local textile industry brain construction relying on AI and big data technology. The fashion industry digital technology innovation ecosystem community and China Apparel Intelligent Manufacturing Innovation Alliance expand and improve. Adhering to open source and openness, various associations and units build platforms based on resource advantages to promote cross-field communication and cooperation. The Textile Machinery Association invites experts and institutions in AI, robotics, and related fields to conduct special sharing activities, strengthening connections between industry enterprises and software service providers and equipment manufacturers; the Industry Development Department holds digital and intelligent industrial chain exchange meetings for specialized and innovative new products based on actual enterprise application scenarios; China Textile Assets strengthens cooperation with cloud computing service platforms, industrial AI big data platforms, and industrial intelligent service platforms. The talent support system is simultaneously strengthened, continuously improving the clothing 3D digital design skill level certificate system.

(5) Innovation-driven, deep integration of science, technology, and industry.

Strengthen science and education services. Launch the formulation of the 15th Five-Year Plan for industry science and technology innovation, with a research draft currently formed. Guided by national key science and technology projects, enterprises are encouraged to strengthen basic research and original innovation around key areas. Recommend the project "Key Technology Development for Full-cycle Recycling and Reuse of Waste Polyester-cotton Textiles" to apply for the Ministry of Science and Technology's "Intergovernmental International Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation" key special project, and recommend 31 achievements for the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's industrial foundation innovation achievements. Continue to promote the creation and development of industry key laboratories and technology innovation centers, with 5 new technology R&D centers added in the first half of the year. Focus on improving the collaborative education model integrating production, learning, research, and application. Using the Textile Education Steering Committee and Textile and Apparel Industry Steering Committee as starting points, education reform, discipline construction, talent cultivation, and industry development advance together. Launch teaching achievement competitions to promote teaching development. Establish the China Textile and Apparel Education Overseas Alliance and the Textile and Apparel Industry Graduate Education Cooperation Alliance. Carry out industry science and technology awards and excellent patent selection and recommendation work.

Promote innovation transformation. Build a full-chain, multi-channel achievement transformation and promotion system. Organize evaluation of key pilot platforms for manufacturing industry cultivation, selecting 11 for recommendation to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Build a basic database of textile industry scientific and technological achievements to improve the efficiency of matching supply and demand of research results. Various professional associations and societies fully leverage platforms such as technology innovation alliances, science and technology service teams, and industrial research institutes to carry out technology cooperation, transformation, and promotion work. Hold online roadshows for modern textile series scientific and technological achievements, green low-carbon textile-themed exhibitions, science and technology conferences, and technical forums. To address the shortage of professional service talents, establish a technical manager evaluation system in the textile field and formulate documents such as the "Technical Manager Evaluation Measures in the Textile Field." Continuously promote the formulation and revision of standards and internationalization work around key areas. A total of 26 national standard plans, 27 industry standard plans, and 17 China National Textile and Apparel Council standard plans were issued; completed the submission of the establishment plan for the Nonwoven Materials Subcommittee and the Filter Separation Textile Materials Subcommittee of the National Industrial Textile Standardization Technical Committee, as well as the Textile Standard Sample Subcommittee of the National Standard Sample Technical Committee.

(6) Adapt to local conditions, coordinated regional industrial development.

Serve regional coordinated development. Adhere to thinking and carrying out industry services within major regional development strategies. Strengthen communication and cooperation with relevant departments of local governments in Xinjiang, Sichuan, Yunnan, Jiangxi, Hebei, Liaoning, and other provinces (regions). China National Textile and Apparel Council signed an industrial upgrading cooperation agreement with the People's Government of Aral City, First Division of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, and a cooperation agreement with the People's Government of Jining City, Shandong Province. Completed the "2024 National Textile and Apparel Industry Park Development Report" and the "Typical Case Collection of National Textile Industry Transfer Cooperation Models." Promote the optimization and allocation of resource elements, and promote mutual support between eastern and western industries and common prosperity between north and south. Held the National Textile and Apparel Industry Park Work Conference in Xinjiang. The Intangible Cultural Heritage Office deeply explores characteristic resources and intangible cultural heritage resources in border ethnic areas, compiling the "Shu Brocade Fabric Industrialization Development Strategy Research Report," and signed a strategic cooperation agreement to support rural revitalization of the Miao embroidery industry with the China Embroiderer Project Team and Shibadong Village, Shuanglong Town, Hunan; the China Wool Association conducted a series of surveys on the status and development of the Tibetan wool spinning industry, formed suggestions, and reported to the Autonomous Region People's Government; the Social Responsibility Office reached a cooperation intention with the Xinjiang Federation of Trade Unions to conduct research on the distribution of benefits in the value chain of the Xinjiang textile and apparel industry.

Serve industrial cluster construction. Carry out industrial cluster research, cultivation, service, and evaluation work. Discover and promote advanced manufacturing clusters and new cluster development. Completed the compilation of "Path to Promote World-class Industrial Cluster Construction in the Textile Industry," "Qinghe County Cashmere Industry Plan (2023-2035)," and "Overall Development Plan of Huaibin High-tech Industrial Development Zone," providing forward-looking guidance for industrial cluster transformation and upgrading. Entrusted by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Industrial Cluster Working Committee uses a combination of questionnaire surveys and field visits, receiving development information from 189 industrial clusters nationwide. Conduct targeted industrial exchanges, investment promotion, research, and other activities to guide various elements to gather in industrial clusters. Held the China (Ordos) International Cashmere and Wool Exhibition, China (Sanmen) High-quality Development Conference for Outdoor Jackets, organized the 2025 China (Haining) Fashion Fabric Innovation Competition, and promoted the creation of the regional brand "Good Fabric Made in Xucun."

(7) Enrich connotation, steadily enhance industrial value.

Explore cultural value and enhance the industry's fashion leadership. Research and release trends in color, fiber, yarn, fabric, clothing, home textiles, etc. Organize events such as the National Style Fashion Festival and National Style Fashion Week. Hold the China Fashion Conference, seminars on the integration of textile intangible cultural heritage and fashion development, guiding enterprises to strengthen cultural excavation and value transformation. Establish the Traditional Color Research Committee of the China Popular Color Association to promote the standardization and digital construction of the traditional color system. Conduct industry brand research and cultivation. Cooperate with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to draft the "Excellence Brand Cultivation Action Plan," complete the "Guidelines for the Construction of Textile and Apparel Creative Design Leading Parks," and the "Fashion Brand Big Data Analysis Report," among others; continue to advance independent brand cultivation, successfully hold the "Home Textile Brand China Public Welfare Tour" Shanghai stop, and widely carry out brand story collection and promotion activities. Accelerate the formation of a multi-dimensional, tiered talent ecosystem. Establish the Golden Top Award Club to gather top design wisdom and lead fashion innovation; hold events such as China International Fashion Week and China International University Student Fashion Week, organize various design competitions and product evaluations to discover and cultivate emerging designers; launch the National Competition for Household Textile Designers' Professional Skills. Promote fashion intellectual property protection and support the growth of Chinese brands.

Focus on responsible development, guiding the industry to create long-term value. Complete consulting projects such as the National Development and Reform Commission's "15th Five-Year Plan Energy Consumption Growth Trend Research," and release results including the "Feasibility Study on Decarbonization and Renewable Energy Investment in China's Textile Industry," "Research Report on Climate Action Progress of Specialized and New Enterprises in China's Textile Industry," and the "2025 China Textile Industry Product Digital Passport (DPP) White Paper." Carry out certification work for green fibers and their products, and conduct screening, piloting, and promotion of key technologies and equipment. Improve the green standards system, making progress in zero-carbon parks, carbon footprint, recycling, and energy-saving low-carbon fields. Participate in the formulation of the National Market Supervision Administration's "Special Implementation Rules for Product Carbon Footprint Labeling Certification - Textile Products." Guide the creation of carbon-neutral factories and carbon-neutral stores. Conduct cultivation and evaluation of green factories, with many enterprises awarded provincial and municipal green factory titles. Deepen circular economy practices, promote the "Zero Discard of Old Clothes" hotel linen special action, and sign strategic cooperation intentions with China Environmental Resources Group's Green Fiber Company. Hold events such as the Climate Innovation·Fashion Conference. Social responsibility work is effective, with methods, tools, and platforms continuously improved. Promote the CSC9000T textile and apparel enterprise social responsibility management system, and begin work on the 2025 edition of the CSC9000T system. Take proactive actions on frontier topics such as supply chain due diligence and human rights protection, participate in and support related work of various ministries and commissions in the fields of industry, commerce, and human rights, and strengthen exchanges and cooperation with the World Wide Fund for Nature and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The industry's case social and environmental due diligence management guidelines are included in the "China Human Rights Development Report (2024)."

2. Clarify development direction in achieving high-level self-reliance and strength, and constructing a new development pattern.

As a strategic guide for value direction, the new development concept and new development pattern have profound prescriptive connections and intrinsic consistency. Strengthening the domestic circulation and better driving the international circulation should be oriented towards efficient resource allocation, driven by deep integration of innovation, supported by a complete and independent industrial chain, and focused on dynamic supply-demand balance. To provide industry services, it is necessary to understand the core logic of strengthening domestic circulation, achieving high-level self-reliance and strength, and constructing a new development pattern, and to practice the new development concept.

(1) Innovative development, the source of power and core support.

Scientific and technological development follows the evolutionary logic of exponential growth, network effects, and path dependence; industrial evolution is constrained externally by market demand, resource allocation, and institutional environment. The process of market unification is a process of efficient factor allocation and also a process of innovation and integrated development.

1. Deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation brings threefold changes to industry development.

Diverse subject collaboration. Diverse subjects are an inherent requirement of innovation complexity. In terms of content, there are essential differences among basic research, technology development, engineering transformation, and industrial application stages, making it difficult for a single subject to cover the entire chain; in terms of rhythm, the long cycle and uncertainty of technological innovation contrast with the market orientation and efficiency orientation of industrial innovation, fostering complementary collaboration and risk sharing among different subjects. Organizational boundaries are increasingly blurred, and cross-border integration has become the norm. Enterprises deeply embed themselves in basic research and frontier technology exploration; universities and research institutes actively connect with industrial and market demands. In the comprehensive collaboration of government, industry, academia, research, application, and finance, innovation resources form synergistic effects.

Industrial form leap. The integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation gives rise to new business forms and new tracks. Disruptive and frontier technologies deeply penetrate and ubiquitously empower. Technologies such as embodied intelligence and spatial intelligence extend AI capabilities from the virtual world to the physical world, achieving integration of manufacturing and services, products and experiences, hardware and software, promoting the emergence of new business models. Health economy, marine economy, and low-altitude economy expand industrial scenarios. The usage rate of carbon fiber composite materials in the GOVY AirCab flying car body reaches 90%; the marine economy's first-quarter output value is 2.5 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.7%. From chitosan fiber to offshore workwear, from filter materials used for seawater desalination to ultra-high-strength mooring cables, the marine economy has become an industrial blue ocean.

Value logic reconstruction. The deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation drives a systematic reconstruction of value standards and paths. Knowledge, data, brand, network effects, and platform value become new value elements and growth drivers. Enterprise efficiency is no longer confined to optimizing existing product costs but comes from system efficiency of the industrial chain. Enterprise value is increasingly reflected as ecological value. Investors pay more attention to growth potential and future returns. Technological scarcity, track strategic importance, and future development are considerations for enterprise value. On the other hand, the innovation integration process is also a superposition of technological, market, and ethical risks.

2. Industry associations should not only be providers of innovation services but also builders of ecosystems.

Focus on fundamentals, strengthen key innovations. As the source of innovation integration, basic research and original innovation have key value in transcending current technological limitations, reshaping industrial paths, and nurturing future scenarios. China still has shortcomings and gaps in basic processes and underlying technologies. Advanced materials, precision equipment, and high-end products still face bottleneck risks. For example, the domestic rate of high-end carbon fiber for aerospace is less than 30%; digital inkjet printer heads rely on imports. Associations should leverage their global vision advantage, systematically identify weak points in the industrial system's basic capabilities and key technology nodes, and guide industry innovation cooperation. Promote the patenting, standardization, and globalization of innovation achievements in an integrated manner.

Improve efficiency and unleash innovation value. The transformation of achievements carries the key mission of transitioning from innovation potential to development momentum. In recent years, China's R&D investment has continuously increased, with R&D expenditure exceeding 3.6 trillion yuan in 2024, and the number of valid domestic invention patents ranking first in the world. However, in the global innovation index ranking, China has consistently been outside the top ten, with the core issue being the low value conversion rate of innovation achievements, and the prominent phenomena of "dormant patents" and "bubble patents." In 2023, the patent conversion rate in universities was only 6.8%, far below the levels of 50% in the United States and 80% in Germany. There is a structural mismatch between innovation supply and industrial demand. Shortcomings in transformation services such as insufficient pilot testing, poor supply-demand connection, and imperfect standard systems are also important reasons. Industry services should focus on technology connection, demand transmission, and ecological integration, systematically promote standard improvement and innovation collaboration, converge scattered innovation achievements into "engineerable" technical routes, and effectively enhance innovation value.

Promote industry-finance integration to stimulate innovation vitality. Industry-finance cooperation has core functions such as optimizing resource allocation, managing development risks, and exploring innovation value, serving as the support for the integration of scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation. The "Global Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Report 2025" shows that the total value of the global entrepreneurship ecosystem will decline by 31% in 2025. This impression locks in, making the industry's financing environment less optimistic. With the introduction of policies such as the "Sixteen Measures for Science and Technology," "Eight Measures for the Science and Technology Innovation Board," and "Six Measures for Mergers and Acquisitions," supporting the listing of hard technology enterprises has become an important direction, bringing new opportunities to the industry. In June, the fifth set of listing standards for the Science and Technology Innovation Board was restarted, allowing unprofitable but core technology and long-term value possessing science and technology enterprises to IPO. It is necessary to seize and make good use of these policy opportunities, accurately identify enterprises with core technology and long-term value, and guide long-term capital, patient capital, and social capital to participate in industry innovation and development.

(2) Coordinated Development: Balanced Mechanisms and System Requirements

Coordinated development is an inherent requirement for strengthening the domestic circulation, a spatial guarantee for achieving high-level self-reliance and self-improvement, and a practical foundation for building a new development pattern. In the first half of the year, six major economic provinces accounted for 44.6% of the national economy; the overall growth rate of central provinces was higher than the national average; the gap between Hubei and Henan narrowed, showing a "central region striving ahead" pattern; Tibet and Gansu led the country in growth rate. Under the unified large market framework, the trend of coordinated regional industrial development has been further strengthened. Industry service work should be considered within the context of regional pattern changes.

1. Pay attention to the new impact of production factors on the layout of productivity.

The rise of the new energy supply system, internalization of carbon emission costs, expansion of new infrastructure, and the prominence of characteristic resource values have driven adjustments in the comparative advantages of factors. Green electricity price lowlands and mature energy storage technology areas have become new favorites for high-energy-consuming industries such as weaving, printing and dyeing, and chemical fiber. AI consumes huge amounts of energy and water resources, making resource supply an important variable affecting AI layout. Innovations in materials, equipment, and processes further strengthen the substitution elasticity among factors. The regional competitiveness of the textile industry no longer simply depends on the abundance of a single factor but more on the ability to combine multiple factors. Qingdao relies on marine resources to build a full industrial chain for seaweed fiber development and industrial application; coal chemical industry promotes the transformation of resource-based economies; regions such as Xinjiang, Qinghai, and Inner Mongolia, rich in wind and solar resources, have begun to form clusters of new materials and advanced manufacturing; environmental indicators such as carbon emission rights and water resource recycling rates have become new "site selection guides." Changes in factors reconstruct the production function and affect the layout of productivity. Recently, the downstream hydropower project of the Yarlung Zangbo River officially started, with an expected annual power generation equivalent to three Three Gorges Hydropower Stations, which will profoundly impact the entire economic geography. Industry work should pay attention to these new characteristics of industrial layout, actively adjust service concepts and models, re-examine industry services from the perspective of factor combination efficiency, create something from nothing, overtake on curves, discover and cultivate new clusters, shift from "minimizing single factor cost" to "maximizing multi-factor combination," and promote the integration of industrial economy and regional economy.

2. Understand the new logic of industry-city integration development under new urbanization.

China's urbanization rate has increased from 53.1% in 2012 to 67% in 2024, with urban development transitioning from "incremental expansion" to "stock quality improvement." This creates a brand-new context for industry development.

Optimizing the urban system, the construction of clustered and networked city groups and metropolitan areas is the focus of urban work. The clustered development of cities promotes industrial layouts with complementary advantages and integrated functions. The trajectories of national advanced manufacturing clusters such as the Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou high-end textile cluster, the Hangzhou Bay modern textile and apparel cluster, and the Quanzhou modern sports products cluster vividly interpret the inherent logic and development path of city group and metropolitan area construction. With the expansion and upgrading of metropolitan areas and city groups, there is great potential to build world-class modern textile and apparel industry clusters.

Cities are organic living entities, and connotative development is the main line of urban construction. Old factories and storage facilities are transformed through functional adjustment and spatial reshaping into creative design centers, fashion release venues, and cultural experience spaces. Traditional industrial parks and circulation markets are developing towards being refined, beautiful, specialized, and vibrant. Guangzhou's Zhongda business district is positioned as the "Global Textile and Apparel Trading Center," gathering trendy brands and leading consumption. Harbin's West City Red Square integrates design and fashion consumption into old factories. Through structural optimization, momentum conversion, quality improvement, green transformation, cultural heritage continuation, and governance enhancement, urban renewal opens up space for industrial rejuvenation.

People-oriented, intensive and efficient, and characteristic-led are important methods for urban work in the new era. Currently, cluster economies and small-town economies are gathering momentum and becoming livable and workable, serving as important paths to promote new urbanization and comprehensive rural revitalization. By 2024, the national trillion-yuan counties have formed tiers of 500 billion (Kunshan, Jiangyin), 300 billion (Zhangjiagang, Changshu, Jinjiang), 200 billion (Cixi, Yiwu, Shenmu, Yixing, Changsha County), and 100 billion (52 counties), most of which are strong textile counties. Jinjiang's footwear and apparel, Changshu's women's clothing, and other county-level characteristic industries have been selected as the first batch of "China's Influential City Industry Business Cards." Focusing on extreme single products, characteristic resources, intangible cultural heritage, and other segmented fields, new characteristic clusters are accelerating emergence. Regional brands integrate scattered industrial elements into value symbols with urban characteristics, serving as important supports for realizing industrial value and urban value.

The Central Urban Work Conference fully reflects the concept of people-oriented cities, clearly proposing the goal of building innovative, livable, beautiful, resilient, civilized, and intelligent modern people's cities, providing fundamental guidance for the association to promote local industrial development. Changing urban development concepts emphasizes people-oriented approaches, requiring the association to always put people's interests first when promoting industry-city integration; changing urban development methods emphasizes intensive and efficient development, requiring the association to promote industrial agglomeration and intensive urban functions; changing urban development drivers emphasizes characteristic development, requiring the association to explore and cultivate unique urban industrial advantages; changing urban work focus emphasizes governance investment, requiring the association to guide industry integration into urban governance innovation; changing urban work methods emphasizes overall coordination, requiring the association to play a coordinating role. Industry work should adhere to local conditions and classified guidance, promoting local industrial innovation breakthroughs, structural reorganization, and ecological evolution.

(3) Green Development: Fundamental Requirements and Quality Standards

Green development is the distinctive foundation for achieving high-level self-reliance and strength, reflecting the quality requirements and value pursuits of the new development pattern. Currently, countercurrents such as national competition, social division, and populism are surging, and global sustainable development has moved from "concept advocacy" into the deep waters of "interest restructuring." Corporate ESG practices face real challenges due to policy, technology, and market instability. This tests the strategic determination and development wisdom of the industry's green transformation. To steadfastly promote comprehensive green transformation, we need to deeply grasp the paradigm shift of green development.

1. Change in Value Paradigm

Environmental protection equipment is a hard input, technological transformation is a hard expenditure, and compliance review is a hard threshold. Under traditional technical and institutional frameworks, green transformation was seen as a cost burden, and often corporate development and environmental protection were in opposition. Currently, the value logic of green development has changed. Kantar analysis shows that sustainability concepts have contributed $193 billion in brand value to the world's top 100 brands. Green development has become a source of value. From the perspective of compliance value, companies that proactively build green capabilities can not only avoid policy risks but also gain institutional dividends and first-mover advantages; from the efficiency value perspective, the system integration of green technology reshapes cost structures, achieving coordinated reductions in energy consumption, material consumption, and labor costs; from the market value perspective, consumer demand for sustainable products is shifting from "willing acceptance" to "active choice"; from the asset value perspective, natural capital has become a new accounting boundary, with carbon quotas, emission rights, and green electricity certificates gaining equity value through market transactions. The association should leverage organizational coordination to further elevate the industry's green practice advantages in industry and technology into rule advantages and competitive advantages; deeply carry out carbon footprint management systems, promote supply chain development; guide the transformation of value recognition in industrial investment, and encourage enterprises to treat green technology investment as a strategic layout for building future advantages.

2. Change in Trust Paradigm

Traditional ESG reports as information disclosure tools have certain shortcomings. Selective disclosure blurs true performance, delayed publication reduces timeliness value, and homogenized content weakens differentiation. Some companies' "greenwashing" behaviors erode the foundation of social trust. At the same time, technical indicators and specialized terminology exacerbate cognitive isolation. These weaken the report's support for green value. The market needs not a static annual summary or self-serving subjective statements, but transparency that is "verifiable anytime" and sincerity that "everyone can understand." A new information mechanism is being established. The "digital passport" makes it possible to provide data support for every green claim and precise quantification of every environmental contribution. Trusted data collection, intelligent algorithm verification, and transparent traceability systems are key supports for building trust. Meanwhile, leveraging social media and interactive scenarios, companies are beginning to transform the vague concept of sustainable development into perceptible and easily understandable visual expressions. From "professional reports" to "visual displays," green concepts and practices are transformed into public cognition and market recognition. The association should continue to promote the construction of trust infrastructure for industry sustainability, accelerate the standardization and popularization of trust tools, promote the transformation of the "digital passport" group standard into an industry standard configuration; enrich methods, explore models, and promote experiences to turn complex industry ESG practices into vivid expressions easily understood by the public and market.

3. Change in Circular Paradigm

With increasing pressure on resource elements and policy rules, and the deepening of extended producer responsibility, the industry is taking on greater responsibility for product waste recycling. Circular economy is beginning to replace the traditional linear manufacturing of "take-use-dispose" and has become an important model for green development. Improving resource efficiency in the cycle. Taking zero-carbon parks as an example, by coordinating the entire product lifecycle, production processes, and industrial ecosystem, zero-carbon parks maximize resource recycling through energy cascade utilization, internal waste digestion, and by-product development; achieving industrial symbiosis in the cycle. Cross-enterprise and cross-industry symbiotic networks promote efficient use of materials, energy, and information. For example, the "use to promote treatment" model in Alar City, Xinjiang, explores incorporating saline-alkali land, desert gobi, and industrial wastewater into the economic cycle through expanded cultivation of reed bamboo, turning ecological governance investments into industrial benefit returns. Promoting the construction of efficient circular systems and enhancing ecological value conversion capabilities through corporate circular transformation index evaluation is an important path for future green transformation. The association should promote the industry to move from single-point optimization to systemic circulation, achieving unity of economic and environmental benefits at a higher dimension.

(4) Open Development: Spatial Expansion and Value Extension

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that openness brings progress, while closure inevitably leads to backwardness. The trend of globalization is irreversible, and every enterprise is a global enterprise. As an important part of an open economy, the textile industry is deeply integrated into the global narrative, becoming a pioneer and leader in "going out" and "bringing in." From 2014 to 2024, the industry's cumulative outward direct investment amounted to about $14 billion. Enterprises are continuously advancing into emerging markets such as the Middle East, Africa, and South America. Going abroad has become a trend, and the industry has entered a new stage of globalization.

Overall, global economic growth remains weak. The IMF expects the global economic growth rate this year to be 3.0%, lower than 3.3% in 2024. Geopolitical tensions and great power games are intensifying, with unilateralism and protectionism continuing to spread. Regionalization and localization characteristics of global supply chain cooperation are becoming more apparent. Since 2020, internal trade within the three major economic zones of Europe, Asia, and North America has been continuously strengthened, reaching 61%, 59%, and 39% respectively in 2024. Facing profound changes in the global economic and trade pattern, we need to rationally assess the external environment, coordinate development and security, and enhance global service capabilities.

New changes in global trade relations. The start of the Trump 2.0 era has added new variables to the existing great power games. The U.S. government’s policies change rapidly and unpredictably, maximizing the adaptation costs for other economies through seemingly chaotic behavior, forcing countries to consume significant resources in policy adjustments, thereby weakening their overall strength in global competition. Taking reciprocal tariff policies as an example, compared to traditional tariff barriers, their coverage has extended comprehensively from manufacturing to services, from goods trade to technology transfer; the implementation targets have broken ideological camp boundaries, expanding to traditional allies such as the EU, Japan, and South Korea; policy tools have become more complex and upgraded, with tariff barriers, export controls, investment reviews, and technology blockades nested together to form an all-round, three-dimensional suppression network. Against this backdrop, previous efforts to avoid risks through simple industrial transfer may lead to overlapping and amplified risk exposures. Newly added layout nodes may become new risk points.

New adjustments in the global rule system. Changes in the world pattern and power balance have triggered changes in global industrial and trade policies. According to data from the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, in April 2025, 20 countries (regions) under monitoring issued a total of 105 import and export tariff measures, a year-on-year increase of 483%. While tariff barriers remain high, the development of the green economy and digital economy has brought updates to global rule content. For example, in the digital economy field, major economies such as Europe and the U.S. are accelerating legislation around data property rights, data flow, and privacy security. Regional trade agreements have achieved "institutional deepening," shifting from traditional shallow liberalization "at the border" such as tariff reductions to deep rule integration "behind the border" including intellectual property, data flow, and environmental standards. This on one hand creates a convenient institutional environment for multinational innovation activities but also raises higher requirements for enterprises' compliance capabilities, technological levels, and standard adaptability.

New situations give rise to new paradigms. Facing profound changes in the external environment, the underlying logic of the industry's supply chain is undergoing fundamental restructuring. The focus of corporate decision-making is shifting from single cost optimization to multiple considerations including political risk, supply security, and stability. The organization of the supply chain is moving from linear optimization to ecosystem construction, emphasizing deeper partnerships. Corporate strategic thinking is shifting from passive adaptation to active construction, enhancing influence in the supply chain through technological innovation and standard setting.

In response to new changes, the association needs to strengthen its international perspective and improve its service system.

Forge core capabilities. Guide enterprises to focus on building core capabilities, strengthen systematic investment in key technologies, core processes, and brand value, and enhance irreplaceability. Guide enterprises to establish "long-term flexibility" and explore the transformation from a heavy-asset model of "deep cultivation" to a light-asset model of "following resources" in globalization.

Optimize industrial layout. Guide enterprises to make good use of regional integration policies to establish a more robust supply chain network, hedging global trade uncertainties through certainty in regional trade. Guide enterprises to avoid considering tariffs and other single factors alone, and to invest from the perspective of the industrial chain system advantage. Strengthen policy monitoring and research on major economies to help enterprises understand trends.

(5) Shared Development: Value Focus and Fundamental Purpose

Meeting the people's growing needs for a better life is the direction for strengthening the domestic circulation, the standard for testing high-level self-reliance and self-improvement, and the starting and ending point for building a new development pattern. In the first half of the year, domestic demand contributed 68.8% to GDP growth, with final consumption expenditure contributing 52%. Consumption has become the main engine driving economic growth. Population changes bring structural changes to the market. "Aging and low birth rates" extend the market at both ends. The trillion-level "silver economy" blue ocean is accelerating, spawning sectors such as healthcare and elderly-friendly products; the focus of household consumption is moving upward, promoting the high-end and refined development of markets like maternal and infant products and education. Household miniaturization, with "one-person" and "two-person" households becoming the main force, drives new consumption trends such as self-care economy, single economy, and pet economy. High social mobility also narrows the gap in consumption concepts and capabilities between regions, and the small-town economy is rapidly rising amid market gradient sinking.

Adapting to market adjustments, a new product logic is also taking shape.

1. Scenario-based product innovation

Shifting from "products meeting needs" to "scenarios creating value," from "one-time delivery" to "continuous companionship," from "functional consumption" to "relational consumption," segmentation of scenarios spurs segmentation of categories, and deepening scenarios bring deeper services. Consumers no longer buy the product itself but the lifestyle it carries, the community connections it links, and the growth companionship it provides.

First is spatial logic, leaping to multi-dimensional experiences. Traditional product logic is limited to shelves; new product logic is embedded in life. Various event spaces integrating cultural displays and social interactions become important brand traffic entry points and consumer touchpoints. For example, the cultural tourism boom of "a concert igniting a city" has led to the rise of categories like "city-exclusive" T-shirts and "stand cheering" gear. Channels accelerate scenarization. Arc'teryx brings climbing walls and rain mist simulation rooms into stores. Live streaming interaction evolves from large stores to living rooms. lululemon's "hot sweat life" yoga community and Bosideng's professional mountaineers club use interest communities as methodologies to enhance user stickiness.

Second is temporal logic, shifting to full-cycle companionship. The product lifecycle couples with the user lifecycle, and product value shifts from one-time functional satisfaction to continuous growth companionship. Product transactions are becoming the starting point of the user journey. For example, Babycare covers a full category product matrix from pregnancy to 6 years of parenting, maximizing user value by shaping a companion-style "parenting expert" brand image. The product logic built on temporal wisdom makes the depth of brand-user relationships and trust intensity a solid moat.

Scenario-based product logic innovation is a systemic transformation involving trust rebuilding, efficiency revolution, and experience upgrading. It is a deep shift from "traffic thinking" to "retention thinking" and a strategic upgrade from "economies of scale" to "relationship economy."

2. Culture-based product innovation

From the widespread popularity of "new Chinese style" such as Hanfu and Mamian skirts, to Labubu's global popularity with unique cute and ugly designs, to the huge derivative market expanded around original IP by "fan creations," an indisputable fact is that culture has risen from a bonus point to a must-have driver of product innovation. Identity recognition and emotional resonance are no longer marketing embellishments but the underlying logic determining business success or failure.

First is the attribute of social currency. Based on cultural symbols and value recognition, consumers aggregate into highly sticky circles and tribes, not only redefining the market boundaries of single categories but also creating huge premiums through social currency. Single cultural symbols are fragile, easily spread and copied. With the proliferation of homogeneous products, symbol value also dilutes and dissipates. Maintaining narrative uniqueness and group belonging is both the engine for cultural brand rise and the lifeline for its sustainable development.

Second is the logic of traffic value. Content co-creation and chain sharing on social media provide brands with powerful exponential diffusion momentum. But this dissemination mechanism also makes products easily overshadowed by new hot spots, showing high volatility. The 30-day rapid rise and fall of Labubu baby clothes illustrates this. Represented by the IP economy, governance of short-cycle, fast-paced cultural products is still relatively lagging, exacerbating this trend. How to cut through the noise and guide industry enterprises to turn fleeting heat into lasting brand assets is an important issue.

The association should promote the industry to deeply explore cultural value and accurately extract cultural symbols with foresight and systematic thinking; grasp dissemination mechanisms and rules; promote industry intellectual property protection; support original design and independent brand development; and achieve a shift from passively chasing trends to actively creating classics and defining markets.

3. Grasp the three key systemic variables of industry services

We must keep pace with the times to do industry work well and find the current key leverage points with systemic influence.

(1) Grasp the essentials of meaning construction

The profound evolution of a century-old transformation, facing major adjustments in the external environment, significant changes in the industrial landscape, and leaps in innovation methods, enterprises generally feel confused and pressured. As a key force leading industry development, the association needs to maintain composure amid complex interest patterns, clarify direction for enterprises, and bring clarity. Therefore, the association must not only answer the "how to do" method question but also address the value propositions of "why to do" and "what to do." Constructing meaning is the key for the association to serve the country, society, the public, and the industry. "Yi" (meaning) refers to a fundamental shift in thinking and a systematic improvement in cognitive level; "Yi" (righteousness) refers to the conscious shaping of spiritual character and the proactive undertaking of mission responsibility.

Purpose comes first. Where there is purpose, there is direction. To reconstruct the "purpose" of development, one must have profound purpose, establish new purpose, and have practical purpose. Profound purpose is a deep understanding of historical heritage and the mission of the times. Textiles have grown alongside civilization, embodying cultural traditions and reflecting the values of the era. The association should place its service work within the grand narrative of national rejuvenation, guiding the industry to draw development wisdom from deep history, find motivation in inheritance, and achieve the continuation and sublimation of value concepts. New purpose is to reshape development concepts through innovative breakthroughs. A new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating, with new tools, technologies, models, and business formats emerging continuously. We must break free from traditional path dependence, lead development breakthroughs with ideological innovation, and achieve a systematic upgrade from passive service to active leadership, from single functions to integrated platforms, and from closed operations to open collaboration. Practical purpose emphasizes returning to the practical foundation of value creation. Without a profound understanding of the industry's essence, concepts become castles in the air. The association must see through appearances, deeply understand industry development laws, accurately grasp market change trends, precisely identify real enterprise needs, and create real value through pragmatic service.

Clarity of righteousness as the foundation. Only by putting righteousness first can consensus be gathered and value coordinates that transcend cycles be established amid changes. We must Establish our hearts with national righteousness. As an eternal and pillar industry, the textile industry resonates with national prosperity, ethnic revitalization, and people's happiness, playing an important role in stabilizing economic development and securing employment and livelihoods. The association must always stand at the overall height of the Party and national development, align industry work with national strategies, and better serve the process of Chinese-style modernization through high-quality industrial development. We must Establish credibility with industry justice. The textile industry is highly market-oriented and globalized, facing complex relationships and challenges. As the organizer and enabler of the industry, the association must establish a correct view of service and power, base itself on fairness, make good use of influence, guidance, and recommendation rights, maintain industrial competition order, and lead standardized industry development. We must Establish ourselves with the morality of service. Professionalism is a capability requirement and a value commitment; service is a duty and a moral responsibility. Industry associations must emphasize practical work and effectiveness, solve real problems close to enterprises and markets, and provide real value through in-depth research and pragmatic service. Only by always keeping pace with the times and walking with the industry can trust be earned and responsibilities fulfilled.

Inspire action with purpose and solidify foundation with righteousness. Amid the changing times, the association must maintain presence and empathize with enterprises. It should become the storyteller of the industry and the interpreter of meaning, constructing a meaningful framework for industry development with a complete narrative system; deepen multi-dimensional identity building to forge strong spiritual bonds and gather industry consensus; establish an equal, open, and normalized communication platform to resolve differences through dialogue and gather strength through consultation; establish a collaborative and shared innovation mechanism to achieve value co-win through co-creation and move toward common prosperity through cooperation.

(2) Seize the opportunity of artificial intelligence.

The "three overlapping periods" of strategic opportunity, innovation emergence, and regulated development are converging, with AI becoming a key variable affecting the entire industry landscape. Represented by AI Agents, vertical application ecosystems are rapidly rising. IDC research shows that by 2025, 47.5% of Chinese industrial enterprises will have applied large models or intelligent agents. From concept to practice, from application to integration, the textile industry's intelligent transformation shows distinct characteristics of scenario-driven and vertical deep cultivation.

First, breakthroughs at points. Focusing on links such as pattern design, intelligent color matching, and defect detection, AI applications are deepening and refining. For example, Guangdong Yida's edge weaving and inspection system and intelligent fabric inspection machines effectively reduce defect rates; Wanshili's AIGC pattern design large model achieves personalized customization; Qipai's AI intelligent agent and AI jacket interconnect to realize intelligent temperature control, health monitoring, and intelligent interaction.

Second, line connectivity. The entire industry chain accelerates intelligent transformation. For example, Weiqiao's AI large model covers the entire process of spinning, weaving, dyeing, and garment making; Tongkun Group connects over 25,000 devices and more than 1.5 million key process data collection points, achieving "global visibility" of data across devices, systems, factories, and regions.

Third, expansion of the surface. AI applications show clustering, platformization, and ecological characteristics. Industrial clusters across regions accelerate the construction of industrial internet and industrial brains. For example, Keqiao's "AI Fabric" large model empowers the entire industry chain relying on 300,000 fabric data pieces, 40% of the country's printing and dyeing industry data, and 28% of printing and dyeing capacity data.

Since the beginning of this year, policies such as the "2025 Work Points for Integration of Informatization and Industrialization" and the "Textile Industry Digital Transformation Implementation Plan" have been intensively introduced. On July 31, the State Council executive meeting reviewed and approved the "Opinions on Deeply Implementing the 'Artificial Intelligence+' Action," providing guidance and creating conditions for AI applications in the industry. We must seize trend opportunities and make promoting AI applications an important direction of industry service.

1. Focus on data and promote the transition from information silos to data ecosystems.

The textile industry accumulates massive, dispersed, and heterogeneous data, with many practical experiences and process data not explicitly expressed. Data fragmentation among different entities and scenarios, and insufficient annotation of professional domain and scenario data, have become real bottlenecks hindering AI applications in the industry. We must be application-oriented, improve industry data management and standards, promote the construction of industry knowledge graphs, and transform process knowledge, material characteristics, production processes, etc., into explicit, structured, and computable digital assets; promote the construction of transparent and trustworthy data infrastructure, accelerate the industry's data assetization process, and help enterprises extend from tangible assets to intangible assets, transform from stock value to flow value, and leap from closed operation to open collaboration.

2. Focus on scenarios and promote the transition from general-purpose to professional applications.

The industry's rich formats, complex processes, and personalized consumption characteristics result in significant differences in digital technology demands across various sub-sectors and specific links. AI applications show features of limited coverage, insufficient accuracy, and functional convergence. With the development of new quality productivity, the industry is accelerating the formation of new formats around new dimensions such as technology, fashion, green, and health. Green is measurable, intelligent is wearable, and new fields and tracks like "textile + cultural tourism" and "textile + health" are generating entirely new demands. The core challenge facing the textile and apparel industry is how to deeply integrate general AI technology with industry-specific needs. Industry services should continuously promote in-depth scenario development, entity linkage, and cross-sector cooperation to enhance the adaptability between technology and demand.

3. Focus on governance and promote the shift from risk prevention to value guidance.

While artificial intelligence forms productivity, it also brings new risks and uncertainties. Data privacy and information security, algorithm bias and content forgery, decision-making black boxes and knowledge illusions, intellectual property and unemployment risks all impact the economy, ethics, law, and society. A United Nations report points out that 40% of global jobs may be affected by AI; up to 118 countries are almost completely excluded from AI governance discussions. There is a wide gap in AI application levels among large, medium, and small enterprises, as well as between developed and underdeveloped regions. New divides in data, energy, income, usage, and industry are forming, with high technology and high costs evolving into cracks of cognitive isolation and capability differentiation. Recently, the United States released the "Winning the AI Race: U.S. AI Action Plan," and the European Commission issued general AI practice guidelines, deepening barriers amid great power competition around AI. Industry services must maintain foresight, both perceiving risks before they arise and guiding values consistently, building public platforms to promote safe, controllable, healthy, orderly, and inclusive intelligent development balancing innovation and compliance.

(3) Grasp changes in market entities.

During this year's 618 shopping festival, over 50 emerging brands on Tmall Fashion achieved transactions exceeding ten million yuan, and more than 1,400 potential brands grew over 100%. This vividly reflects the current structural reshaping of market entities. Traditional brands are accelerating toward internationalization and high-end positioning. Meanwhile, based on new formats and new ecosystems, many emerging market entities and brands have appeared. For example, innovative enterprises focusing on frontier technologies such as new materials and biotechnology and future industries achieve a leap from product orientation to vision-driven through technology leadership, value reconstruction, and ecological collaboration; cultural and creative enterprises represented by IP incubation and trendy design integrate Chinese aesthetics with global trends, upgrading from product manufacturing to cultural transformation; ecological enterprises using fans as markets and traffic as value form new value chains through content creation, traffic integration, data-driven approaches, and social monetization; conceptual enterprises represented by green low-carbon and responsibility leadership deeply integrate ESG governance, carbon neutrality, and circular economy into their entire operation process, achieving organic unity of social, ecological, and economic values. These enterprises have development logic and life cycles significantly different from traditional enterprises. Their technological content, traffic thinking, and capital awareness give them the potential for exponential growth. These form a mismatch and gap with the standardized service system previously built by the association based on industrial development logic of "slow thinking." On the other hand, the replacement of entrepreneurs is accelerating. New generations of entrepreneurs such as the "first generation of creators," "second generation of entrepreneurs," and "second generation of factory owners" are stepping onto the stage. Compared with the older generation, they have different ways of thinking, value pursuits, and behavior patterns. How to establish deep links and form sticky services with these new entities and new groups has become an important issue for industry work.

New market entities are nurturing new organizational forms. Innovative enterprises desire to connect with application scenarios; cultural and creative enterprises need to build strong content networks; ecological enterprises rely on refined community operations; conceptual enterprises strive to form broad value resonance. This makes networking and platformization important organizational forms, and open innovation and value alliances important business models. Association services need to accelerate the extension from specialization to comprehensiveness. They should proactively act as "super nodes" linking diverse value networks, empowering enterprises of different types and stages.

The prosperity of the ecosystem depends on the foundation of order. Over-competition has won the world but trapped itself. Highly involuted competition is a real problem; price competition at the expense of quality is damaging consumer rights and industry health. The "2025 China Consumer Rights Protection Report" shows that complaints about product quality issues account for as high as 40%. The association should further improve industry norms and self-discipline mechanisms, break through the zero-sum dilemma with positive-sum games, and guide the industry to optimize supply and develop in differentiated ways.

The development of the industry requires a soil of trust. Irregular behaviors such as borderline marketing, intellectual property infringement, and data traffic fraud undermine the social foundation of industry development. In the current deep integration of supply chains, capital chains, and innovation chains, cross-field, cross-industry, and cross-entity collaboration is increasingly frequent, making trust more important. The association should further improve the construction of the industry trust system, act as a credit intermediary, transform organizational influence into a sense of cooperative trust, and reduce market friction and transaction costs.

4. Solidly carry out work in the second half of the year.

The Politburo meeting of the CPC Central Committee held on July 30 made key deployments on how to do economic work in the second half of the year. Seeking progress while maintaining stability is the general tone, focusing on stabilizing employment, enterprises, markets, and expectations, with vigorously promoting domestic and international dual circulation as the main direction. We must correctly grasp the situation, enhance awareness of potential risks, adhere to bottom-line thinking, make good use of development opportunities, potential, and advantages, enhance the flexibility and foresight of service work, and unify the industry's understanding and actions with the work deployments and requirements determined by the Politburo meeting of the CPC Central Committee.

First, do well ourselves and undertake the mission. We must clearly uphold political principles, take the party committee re-election as an opportunity, adhere to and strengthen the Party's overall leadership, and firmly determine the political direction of the association's deepening reform and transformation development. Further improve grassroots organization construction, complete the establishment of the Trade Union Federation of the China National Textile and Apparel Council, and promote Party building among new economic organizations, new social organizations, and new employment groups. Based on in-depth study and education on the spirit of the Central Eight Provisions, implement strict Party governance, and manage "people, finances, materials, and affairs" with strict discipline and style. Complete the re-election work of associations and engineering societies such as enterprise management, knitting, wool spinning, and hemp spinning according to regulations. Grasp the non-profit characteristics and operating rules of industry associations, and implement relevant requirements in all aspects and throughout the process of fulfilling responsibilities.

(1) Strengthen strategic orientation and improve the scientific and leading nature of services.

Give full play to the guiding role of medium- and long-term planning. Continue to carry out the research and preparation of the "15th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Modern Textile Industry" and the "15th Five-Year Development Guidance Opinions" in the fields of industrial use, chemical fiber, and printing and dyeing, providing strong support for building a modern textile industry system. Systematically promote the "15th Five-Year" strategic research work in various fields and industries. Adhere to open consultation and brainstorming, conduct systematic surveys and thematic discussions nationwide, seek practical measures, and pursue practical results. Maintain vertical and horizontal coordination. Strengthen the connection with regional development planning, assist local governments at all levels, key parks, and backbone enterprises in preparing development plans, guiding all parties to find their positioning and play their advantages in the overall national layout.

Carry out in-depth research work. Persistently improve research capabilities. Deepen research around policy hotspots and key industry issues such as technological innovation, digital and intelligent transformation, international trade, industrial transfer, green development, and brand building, forming systematic solutions. Handle commissioned projects from the National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and local governments. Adhere to problem orientation, conduct in-depth research on enterprises, clusters, markets, and parks. Perform statistical analysis, continuously monitor domestic and international economic, trade, prosperity, and market data fluctuations, improve methods, and enrich sources. Use data to support and strengthen judgment on industry trends, promptly reflect industry demands to relevant departments. Play a guiding role in public opinion, comprehensively use various publicity channels, speak truthfully, report facts, and spread positive energy.

(2) Adhere to independent control to ensure the safety and stability of the industrial and supply chains.

Enhance endogenous motivation. Coordinate efforts to address weaknesses and strengthen advantages, consolidating industrial scale and system advantages. Better leverage platform value and organizational service roles, manage projects such as technology guidance plans and basic applied research plans, guiding the industry to strengthen weak links and key technology breakthroughs. Support the industry in enhancing raw material security for cotton, wool, etc., build a solid safety bottom line, and ensure coordinated development across the entire chain. Strengthen communication with central and local government departments, solidify manufacturing foundations, guide the industry to strengthen, supplement, and extend chains during upgrades toward high-end, intelligent, and green development. Balance domestic development and international transfer relationships, enhance the rootedness and integrity of the industrial chain. Rely on professional associations and public service platforms to provide precise and professional services, helping enterprises improve quality and efficiency. Guide small and medium-sized enterprises to deeply cultivate and specialize at key nodes of the industrial chain, support large enterprises to accelerate becoming world-class companies, and reshape the industrial division of labor system.

Strengthen system support. Improve industry innovation infrastructure, promote the construction of platforms such as the National Advanced Technology Textile Innovation Center and key laboratories. Enrich and strengthen organizations and services like industry innovation alliances, deeply integrate government, industry, academia, and research to effectively solve issues like low-level repetition. Successfully organize national textile science and technology achievement transformation and cooperation conferences, various technology conferences, promoting the connection between technological innovation and industrial innovation. Deepen standardization work, accelerate the construction of subcommittees under the National Industrial Textile Standardization Technical Committee, and strive for successful establishment of ISO standard proposals from China. Further improve industry regulations and agreements, promote the construction of industry integrity systems, guide industry self-governance and self-discipline, and strive to resolve "involution" competition.

(3) Tap domestic demand potential to achieve dynamic balance between supply and demand.

Promote supply expansion and quality improvement. Strengthen research on fashion trends and lifestyles, guide enterprises to enhance product development capabilities for diverse scenarios and niche fields. Accelerate R&D and iterative upgrades of product development data analysis and decision-making platforms, successfully organize apparel, home textiles, fabric competitions, and product evaluations to lead product innovation. Use textile intangible cultural heritage as an entry point, encourage enterprises to strengthen cultural excavation and transformation, creating differentiated and distinctive products. Promote collaborative product innovation, guide enterprises to increase development of intelligent, high-strength, multifunctional, and lightweight products. Focus on masters, big brands, and major events, systematically upgrade fashion weeks, design competitions, and successfully organize events like the China Textile and Apparel Brand Conference to support brand building and development. Deepen industry testing and quality technical services, launch textile industry innovation and quality leadership community projects. Encourage enterprises to increase technological transformation efforts, upgrade and renew equipment, forming high-quality supply capabilities.

Expand effective domestic demand. Continue cooperating with relevant ministries to carry out the "Quality Supply to Promote Upgrading" series of activities in textiles and apparel. Organize autumn joint exhibitions, industrial use exhibitions, and other fairs to enhance scale and agglomeration effects, promoting circulation of goods and factors. Use trade fairs and other activities as carriers to provide supply chain services, promoting upstream and downstream supply-demand matching. Optimize and upgrade professional markets. Support regions such as Sichuan, Chongqing, and Wuhan in hosting expos and consumption festivals to create a consumption atmosphere and boost consumer confidence. Focus on terminal consumption, guide enterprises to strengthen scenario innovation and cultural empowerment, create green consumption, healthy consumption, and experiential consumption, and promote the development of first-release economy, ice and snow economy, silver economy, and domestic trend economy. Provide good services for platforms like the Tianmen e-commerce base, better leveraging new models and new formats to expand consumption. Guide enterprises to layout in lower-tier markets, activating consumption potential in counties and towns.

(4) Focus on efficiency improvement, guide efficient allocation of industrial resources and factors.

Optimize spatial distribution of factors. Adhere to the principle of "national unity," promote factor agglomeration and industrial intensification, and build an industrial pattern with distinctive features and complementary advantages. Carry out cluster cultivation and service work. Hold industrial cluster development conferences and other activities to guide various factors to efficiently gather in clusters, increase value, and build brands. Coupled with the distribution of innovation factors, explore and cultivate emerging clusters and future clusters with higher added value and leadership. Leverage local comparative advantages to enhance industrial balance among regions. Hold textile and apparel characteristic industrial cluster construction conferences, park and enterprise cross-regional exchange and cooperation activities, strengthen systematic research and precise services for central and western regions and border ethnic areas, and cultivate characteristic clusters according to local conditions.

Improve the quality of factor supply. Do a good job in talent introduction, cultivation, and recognition, promoting talent level upgrades. Use the Textile Education Steering Committee and others as leverage to promote deep integration of education reform, discipline construction, and industrial development. Strengthen talent selection, successfully organize vocational skill competitions such as silk reeling workers and weavers (water jet looms), and various design competitions. Organize various training classes around management, technology, and other fields to improve professional quality of talents. Improve professional standards and build a hierarchical and classified talent evaluation mechanism. Do a good job in talent selection and reward. Further strengthen industry-finance services and improve capital allocation efficiency. Successfully hold industry investment and financing conferences, quality project investment and financing roadshows, and other activities to guide financial resources to be precisely allocated to quality enterprises.

(5) Expand openness depth, serve the industry's deep integration into global development.

Expand markets and improve the quality of international circulation. Organize overseas self-hosted exhibitions and participation in exhibitions such as the Paris and Singapore shows to help enterprises stabilize orders and expand markets. Guide the industry to continuously build international marketing networks, accelerate the development of cross-border e-commerce, and promote integration of domestic and foreign trade. Around globalization development, upgrade service methods and content, improve the quality of industry utilization of foreign capital and overseas investment. Organize targeted overseas visits and research for enterprises, promote communication and understanding among stakeholders in markets, policies, and cultures. Carry out deep docking and other activities to help the industry introduce advanced production factors and create new international competitive advantages. Pay attention to external market uncertainties, conduct risk monitoring and early warning, guide enterprises to strengthen compliance management, and assist in resolving international trade disputes.

Promote exchanges and build consensus for industry development. Guide industry enterprises to go global and bring in resources, integrating global resources. Strengthen communication with multinational companies and foreign business associations, create a good environment, and stabilize the confidence and expectations of foreign-funded enterprises. Use international platforms such as the International Textile Federation Annual Meeting and China-Japan-Korea Fiber Industry Cooperation Conference to speak out, tell the Chinese textile story well, and let the world better understand China. Organize events such as the World Fabric Merchants Conference, World Apparel Conference, Asia Color Conference, and China International Chemical Fiber Conference. Continue to deepen cooperation with the United Nations and other institutions in areas such as social responsibility.

(6) Focusing on intelligent green development, systematically improving the modernization level of the industrial chain

Digital and intelligent transformation. Guide industry enterprises to accelerate digital and intelligent transformation. Deeply carry out services such as diagnostic consulting, training experience, standard development, pilot demonstrations, and publicity promotion. Build a smart service system for specialized and innovative enterprises in the textile industry, digital transformation enterprise-level and industry-level application platforms, and do a good job in industry IoT standards. Accelerate the application of new infrastructure in clusters, parks, and specialized markets. Promote research and industrial promotion of AI in fashion design, product development, and other fields, and successfully hold events such as China's first AI design competition for cotton clothing. Increase publicity and promotion efforts for fashion intellectual property protection.

Green development. Strengthen the screening, piloting, and promotion of green technologies, accelerate the construction of green products, green factories, green supply chains, and zero-carbon parks. Actively promote "biodegradable" and "dispersible" certifications, expand market promotion and product matching publicity, and build a recycling system for waste textiles. Further improve the industry's green standard system framework. Enrich methods, tools, and platforms for industry social responsibility and ESG governance, promote the application of the product environmental footprint accounting distributed system LCAplus3.0, and complete the development and pilot of the textile industry product digital passport system.

"If the path is not feasible, one should first examine oneself and then hold others accountable accordingly." Since ancient times, Chinese people have admired the way of internal sage and external king, pursuing the virtues of self-improvement and great virtue to carry all things, emphasizing the cultivation of knowledge through investigation and self-discipline with earnest effort. Facing external uncertainties, we need to place our strength on ourselves, rely on the domestic large cycle, and steadily do our own work. Strengthen the foundation, seek practical results, and turn determined efforts into definite development. To believe in the future is to believe in ourselves. Let's work hard together.