7,000 million labor force's "security line"

From June 10 to 11, 2011, the China Security Protection Textile and Garment Industry Innovation and Development Forum was held in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province. This is the first professional event in the industry focusing on the field of security protection and covering the entire industry chain. The 300-odd venue was packed with a high degree of attention and wide participation, exceeding the expectations of the organizers.

Wang Tiankai (right), Vice Chairman of China Textile Industry Association, presented the plaque of “R&D base for Chinese textiles for safety and protection” to Fu Enfu, Chairman of Shaanxi Yuanfeng Textile Technology Research Co., Ltd.

At the forum site, the organizer set up a product showroom. Yantai Spandex, Zhejiang Blue Sky Sea, Xi'an Jingcheng and other companies displayed raw materials and clothing with safety protection functions. Photo by Han Jing

Wang Tiankai, vice president of the China National Textile and Apparel Industry Association, said in his speech at the forum that this year is the beginning of the implementation of the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” for China's textile industry. The "12th Five-Year Plan" period is a crucial stage for China to build a well-off society in an all-round way, and it is also a period of strategic opportunities where China's economic development can accomplish much. As a traditional pillar industry, an important civilian production industry, and an industry that still has international comparative advantages, the textile industry faces both tremendous opportunities and severe challenges during this period. What is important is that we must actively seize opportunities, establish a sense of hardship, overcome various risks and challenges at a new starting point, and focus on the strategic goals of textile powers, and be tangible in four aspects: science and technology, branding, sustainable development and talents. Take a good step.

According to incomplete statistics, due to the lack of labor protection or unsatisfactory labor protection, all types of casualties in China account for about 15% of the total number of casualties in industrial and mining enterprises. In China, the world's largest labor market, according to authoritative statistics, the number of employees is nearly 770 million. With such a huge employment force, the amount of labor protection supplies required each year is considerable. Photo by Han Jing

Wang Tiankai mentioned that during the "12th Five-Year Plan" period and the next decade, China's textile industry will achieve a transformation from a large textile country to a textile powerhouse, from a comparative advantage to a competitive advantage, and from a change in demand to creation. In this process, it is still crucial to increase the capacity for independent innovation, accelerate industrial restructuring, change the mode of economic development, and vigorously develop strategic emerging industries such as industrial textiles. The "China Textile Industry Twelfth Five-Year Plan for Technological Advancement" and "2020 Outline of the Industrial Textile Industry Powerhouse" both point out that textiles for safety protection are the key directions for the future development of China's textile industry.

According to the definition of safety and protective textiles given by the China Industrial Textiles Association, it refers to textiles that protect people and animals from physical, biological, chemical and other factors in a specific environment, including cut-proof, stab-resistant, bullet-proof , Explosion-proof, fireproof, dustproof, anti-biochemical, radiation protection and other functions.

With the increasingly perfection of national labor protection and safe production legislation, in recent years, it has ushered in a good opportunity for rapid development, especially products that are based on the theme of green environmental protection, safety protection, comfort and health, and have become the structural adjustment of textile and apparel industry for safety protection. The dominant force of technology upgrades. Li Lingshen, president of the China Industrial Textiles Industry Association, pointed out that during the “12th Five-Year Plan” period, the focus of safety and protective textiles is to develop anti-nuclear radiation, bullet-proof, stab-resistant, and bio-resistant textiles; to develop flame-retardant, anti-melt protective fabrics and clothing. The development of a variety of protective functions as one of the protective textiles.

Liu Xurong, director of the Safety Supervision and Management Center for Special Protective Products of the State Administration of Work Safety, also stated that labor protection supplies are the last line of defense to ensure the safety and health of workers when production conditions cannot eliminate various dangerous and harmful factors. According to incomplete statistics, due to the lack of labor protection or unsatisfactory labor protection, all types of casualties in China account for about 15% of the total number of casualties in industrial and mining enterprises. In China, the world’s largest labor market, according to authoritative statistics, the number of employees in our country is nearly 770 million. The amount of labor protection supplies required by such a huge employment force is considerable every year.

However, compared with developed countries, there is still a certain gap between China's textile industry for security protection, product market support, supply chain management capabilities, industry concentration, and the level of production and demand convergence. Therefore, the industry must address these issues. Gap and integration into related downstream industries can achieve better and faster development.

The forum was sponsored by China Industrial Textiles Association, Shaanxi Yuanfeng Textile Technology Research Co., Ltd. and Yantai Spandex Co., Ltd. jointly sponsored. Its original intention is to strengthen the connection of technical information and market information of upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain, establish an in-depth cooperation mechanism of the industry chain with market demand as the goal, garment manufacturing as the frontier, fabric development as the core, fiber materials as the backing, and standard testing as the guarantee. .

The forum started from the overall perspective of the textile and apparel industrial chain for security protection, involving the processing of textile raw materials, fabric development, apparel manufacturing, and the downstream industrial chain. It also focuses on the convergence of application areas. Not only the leaders of the China National Textile and Apparel Council, the State Administration of Work Safety, the National Labor Protection Products Quality Supervision and Inspection Center, the Ministry of Public Security’s Equipment Finance Bureau, and the People’s Liberation Army’s relevant departments interpreted national policies and standards and regulations, but also used petroleum, electricity, coal, and military applications. Experts in the field of police and other fields conducted an in-depth analysis of the development of the industry from the perspectives of security protection status and requirements, industrial dynamics, product technology and applications, detection technologies, and industrial chain cooperation.

“Exploring new technologies, new products, new processes, and new trends in professional forums and enhancing the participation of customers in the application fields of the Forum, striving to integrate various resources both inside and outside the industry and upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, and to strengthen upstream and downstream enterprise technologies in the industry chain. The connection of information and market information has effectively promoted the in-depth cooperation between upstream and downstream, and it is of great significance to the rapid and orderly development of the industry.” Wang Tiankai affirmed this.

A day and a half of the conference schedule nearly 20 reports, so that participants in this area benefited a great deal, and therefore, all parties hope that the organizers will be very high voice of the Forum.