2018 The International Textile Federation Conference Was Held In Kenya.

On September 7~9, local time, the topic is "supply chain and business mode in the fast changing era". 2018 international textile manufacturers Annual Conference stay Nairobi, capital of Kenya More than 300 textile industry representatives, together with industry-leading experts, manufacturers, buyers and investors, explore the global challenges and opportunities facing the industry.

At the meeting, the International Federation of spinning and weaving Management Committee held the same period. The conference elected members of the new board of directors of the International Federation of textile industry for a term of two years (2018~2020). Sun Ruizhe, chairman of the Federation of Korean fiber industries and chairman of crane international spinning Union, was appointed as the first vice president of the International Textile Federation. The Swan NISSAN from India Premier is the second vice president of the international spinning Federation, and Hennig, the Swiss Santex A.G. company, is the financial officer of the International Textile Association. At the same time, the International Federation of textile and textile co opted 3 board members, namely, Kasenm from Egypt, Hu An from Spain and Michel from Indonesia.

The Chinese delegation attending the International Federation of spinning and weaving conference is strong, the vice president of the International Textile Federation, Sun Ruizhe, President of China Textile Industry Federation, former chairman of China Textile Federation, Wang Tiankai, inspector of Industry Coordination Department of the national development and Reform Commission, Wang Dong, vice chairman of China Textile Federation, Yang Jizhao, Xu Yingxin, Chen Dapeng, Li Lingshen, end, and China, deputy director general of Foreign Affairs Office, deputy director general of China Textile Union, director of science and technology development department, deputy director general of China Textile Union, director of industry development department, director of China Textile Joint productivity promotion department, director of China Textile Information Center, China, Printing and dyeing industry Chen Zhihua, President of the association, Feng Dehu, director of the China Textile Construction Planning Institute, Yan Yan, director of the social responsibility Office of the China Textile Industry Federation, and representatives of various business departments of the China Textile Federation, attended by more than 80 representatives of outstanding Chinese textile enterprises.

　 Localization and production and sales of China and India will become a trend.

　　 Chairman of the International Textile Federation, chairman of the African cotton and Textile Industry Federation, Jas Betty In his address, the International Federation of spinning and weaving was held in Kenya to enable African textile enterprises to discuss with global colleagues. Textile industry It is a great honor for future development.

Turning to the theme of this session, Betty said, because we are all in the global supply chain system, will be affected by globalization, resources, trade protectionism and so on, no one can stay out of it.

"China's spinning has accounted for 45% of the world's total, and we want to thank China for its contribution to global textile industry." Speaking of the development of the textile industry in Asia, Betty highly praised China's contribution. He said that the number of textile equipment currently produced and used in China accounts for 74% of the world's total, compared with the small size of Africa, which he believes will change in the future.

At the same time, Betty also talked about the development trend of the textile industry in the future. "2020, China retail market It will exceed the total market share in the US and Africa. " At present, the per capita fiber consumption in the United States is 39 kilograms, 25 kg in the EU, 15 kg in China, 6 kg in India, 2.5 kg in Africa, and by 2025, China will reach 25 kg, and India will reach 15 kg. Therefore, the localized production and distribution network will become a trend in China and India, and the trend in the two big markets of China and India will affect the global textile market.

Betty also took Kenya as an example to introduce the development of African textile industry. According to the introduction, in 2017, Kenya's clothing exports amounted to US $400 million. This market share will gradually increase with the promotion of a series of favorable policies, such as the abolition of export tariffs, the abolition of foreign exchange control, the establishment of export processing zones (EPZ) and the construction of special economic zones.

"Africa needs to create employment. Employment needs manufacturing support. Africa has 18 billion dollars worth of cotton and can solve 9 million people's employment. Therefore, Europe, the United States, India, Japan and China can all invest in Africa, so that Africa, with 30 million kilometers and more than 55% of the arable area, will become the world's granary. It will become the largest textile producing and processing area, creating employment and social stability through manufacturing.

Betty also suggested that Africa should become a "follower". "We should learn from China and India and do better in their experience. The labelling of Africa is that the cost of labor is relatively low, so I think Africa can further enhance its attractiveness through the advantage of labor, so that more investors can invest in Kenya.

　　 Textile industry should be embedded in high-end value chain

　　 Muhisa Kitui, director general of the United Nations Commission on economic and Trade Development In his address, the spanfer of manufacturing industry has made the manufacturing process more and more profound and the industrial chain more refined. Africa is still simply importing raw materials through imported raw materials. How to improve technology is Africa. Textile industry Questions to think about.

Muhisa Kitui also said that the rise of protectionism and the fluctuation of existing trade rules, especially the changes in trade trends caused by political factors, have led investors to be affected by uncertainty.

At present, the challenge facing the textile industry is the feasibility of new technology and whether it can be turned into profit. Therefore, Mushi Kitui believes that the development of the textile industry must first realize the spanparency and stability of the supply chain, and at the same time, the development label of future industry should be embedded in the high-end value chain instead of wandering in the low-end domain.

At the same time, he suggested that the International Federation of spinning and weaving should establish a target standard and supervision mechanism for sustainable development so as to ensure the compliance development of enterprises.

　 Kenya welcomes investors to create jobs and reduce poverty for Ken.

Speaking at the address of President Adam Mohamed of Kenya, Minister of industry, trade and cooperation of Kenya expressed the hope that the textile industry could contribute to the entire African continent. "Kenya is not only the gateway to East Africa, but also the gateway to the entire African continent," he said. "Africa needs to create more job opportunities and therefore needs more investment."

The latest economic survey released by the Kenya National Bureau of statistics shows that Kenya's gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 4.9% in 2017. Data show that Kenya's GDP accounts for 40% of East Africa. Tea, coffee and flowers are the three largest foreign exchange projects in agriculture. In the past three years, the contribution of manufacturing industry to GDP has been maintained at a level of slightly below 10%. In its 2030 vision plan, the Kenya government is clear that it will achieve the goal of building Kenya into a middle-income new industrialized country by 2030, when the second industry represented by manufacturing will account for at least 25% of GDP.

In response, the Kenya government has proposed four major plans for the next 5 years: four aspects, including food safety, affordable housing, manufacturing and universal health care. Textile industry has attracted much attention as it can provide a large number of employment opportunities and create GDP industry.

Mohamed also talked about private enterprises as the engine of the economy. The government of Kenya has been helping and promoting the development of private enterprises. "Kenya has a high unemployment rate. As a government, we must first increase infrastructure construction, absorb investment, increase employment and create prosperity."

He also mentioned that the Kenya government attaches great importance to the coherence of policies and the return on investment of enterprises. In the next 5 years, Kenya will further create jobs and reduce poverty. They very much expect that textile and clothing can play an important role in providing employment for young people.

The conference will focus on six major issues. fibre Conference, African textile industry, textile value chain, textile and garment industry technology and digitalization, retail / e-commerce, International Federation of textile audit initiative and green economy.

　　 Technology, fashion and green positioning to promote the development of China's textile supply chain responsibility

At the meeting, Sun Ruizhe, vice chairman of the International Textile Federation and President of the China Textile Industry Federation, shared the Chinese experience with the delegates on the theme of "China's textile and apparel supply chain and social responsibility in the fast changing era".

He said that during the 40 years of China's reform and opening up, China's textile industry has made considerable progress and has become the backbone of the world's textile industry.

China's textile industry can achieve its existing achievements, first of all, the result of full market competition, which makes the industry more efficient in resource allocation and vitality in development. Secondly, it is the result of opening up to the outside world. The textile industry makes full use of two resources in two domestic and international markets; third, innovation and development, technological innovation and achievement spanformation effectively promote the continuous development of China's textile industry; fourth, the systematic development of China's textile industry, making the industrial ecosystem of China's textile industry more perfect and the industrial scale more advantageous.

As for the exposition that the textile industry is in a rapidly changing era, Sun Ruizhe talked about its characteristics:

The rapid change of trade pattern: the rise of emerging economies, the more complex trade relations, and the rapid changes in consumer demand: lack of patience and short attention are forming a consumption trend; the rapid change of industrial ecology: cross-border, cross regional and cross regional cooperation has become the norm.

Referring to the new response of China's textile supply chain, Sun Ruizhe shared the experience and practice of China's textile industry:

Supply chain flexibility. Information technology has penetrated into all aspects of textile supply chain such as design, R & D, production, marketing and service. It has profoundly changed the organization mode, production mode and management mode of the industry, and greatly enhanced the responsiveness of textile supply chain to the demand side change. Such as AI visual recognition platform artificial intelligence visual recognition platform made by China Textile Information Center, artificial intelligence image recognition technology of sunshine group and Ali "FashionAI concept store" and so on.

Green development. At present, the development form of textile supply chain is changing from responsibility to value. Take the aviation and civilian shares of dyeing and printing enterprises as an example, the green development was arranged ahead of schedule. In the first half of 2018, the main business of printing and dyeing enterprises reached 1 billion 654 million yuan, an increase of 22.44% over the same period last year.

Channel integration, in order to capture market changes faster and meet consumer demand, online and offline channels, platforms and modes are accelerating convergence. Such as red bean unbounded retail stores, the use of technology to provide users with offline clothing collocation guidance and display the virtual effect, the home of the sea billows in the US group takeout and so on.

In the fast changing era, what are the opportunities for China? Sun Ruizhe said that China is building an open economy with a more active attitude. The breadth and depth of "introducing" and "going out" are expanding. At the same time, the increasing consumption capacity and more levels of consumption demand will greatly expand the market space and improve the industrial matching.

Sun Ruizhe also briefed participants on the new concept of development of China's textile industry. The new orientation of China's textile industry is the innovation driven technology industry, the culture led fashion industry and the responsibility oriented green industry. The Chinese textile industry is promoting the development of China's textile supply chain responsibility with this new concept. For China Africa cooperation, Sun Ruizhe said that China hopes to cooperate with Kenya and realize the desire of common development. At the same time, he also hopes that more textile and garment enterprises will invest in Kenya.

The blending and interweaving of cotton and viscose fiber is the direction of encouragement.

At the fiber Conference on cotton issues, the experts shared the contents of African cotton program and cotton competitiveness. Duan Xiaoping, vice president of China Textile Industry Federation and President of China Chemical Fiber Industry Association, took "cotton, chemical fiber and future" as the theme, and talked about the development of China's chemical fiber and cotton industry.

Xiaoping pointed out that cotton and chemical fiber is an alternative relationship, the two is the competition relationship, and the three is the interdependent relationship. In the development process of textile industry in recent decades, the relationship between the two shows different characteristics in different time periods.

"In the past 10 years, the amount of non cotton fibers used in China's cotton textile industry has increased continuously, reaching 12 million 700 thousand tons in 2017, an increase of 51.7% over ten years ago, accounting for more than 60% of the fiber volume in China's cotton spinning industry." He said that China will vigorously develop viscose fibers closely related to cotton in the future, mainly through two ways: first, the greening of conventional viscose fiber production; the two is the realization of localization of Lesel (Lyocell) fiber, and now it has formed 45 thousand tons of production capacity, and in the next 3 years, it will also add about 150 thousand tons of production capacity.

End Xiaoping finally talked about the past 10 years to see the competition between chemical fiber and cotton. Although chemical fiber has some advantages, it is basically benign. Competition has promoted the technological progress of their respective industries. In the future, chemical fiber and cotton will coexist peacefully and occupy their respective markets, but the increment depends mainly on chemical fiber.

Xiaoping believes that due to China's competitive advantage, chemical fiber will continue to develop, but the pace of development will gradually slow down, and in 2020 before and after the basic growth rate is synchronized with the world, the proportion of the world will be basically stable.

"China will further liberalize the import of cotton and increase the quota. The national rotation system will be launched at the right time (there will be about 2 million 500 thousand tons of reserves by the end of September), and the operation will be more market-oriented. At the same time, Xiaoping said that blending and interlacing is conducive to giving full play to the characteristics and advantages of all kinds of fibers, obtaining special performance and different fabric styles, but not conducive to the recycling of chemical fibers and the natural degradation of waste fabrics. Therefore, the blending and interweaving of cotton and viscose fibers should be the direction of encouragement.

On the topic of "African textile industry", the textile colleagues from all over the world are actively advices for the development of African textile industry. The company, from Taiwan, China, describes its role in the global supply chain based on its factory in Nairobi.

　　 The first world cloth merchants conference issued an invitation to the world.

At the meeting, Chen Dapeng, vice president of China Textile Industry Federation and executive vice president of China Apparel Association, also invited global textile personages to invite the first world cloth merchants Conference (Keqiao, China) to be held in Keqiao.

He said that, as the theme of this year's ITMF conference is, we are in a rapidly changing era. Market spanformation, technological iteration, international trade policy change, global industrial layout adjustment, and the concept of sustainable development are deepening. The global industry is actively coping with it, seeking new and innovative development, and exploring the way of win-win cooperation between international industries.

It is against this background that under the guidance and promotion of China Federation of textile industry, China will hold an International Conference on industrial development and prospect, as a global textile and garment industry. It hopes to discuss the global industrial cooperation, collaborative innovation and sustainable development with the global industry community in the light of the concept of the global industrial community.

The venue of the conference is Keqiao, Shaoxing, China. It is a beautiful city in the south of the Yangtze River and a famous cultural city with a long history. It is also the largest textile industry cluster in China and the largest textile distribution center in the world.

Chen Dapeng said: "I am here on behalf of the world cloth merchants conference sincerely invite all participants, on the one hand, more in-depth understanding of the latest development of China's textile and garment industry, but also through this conference to express the concept of win-win cooperation, and seek opportunities for cooperation."