Protecting the ecological environment is protecting productivity, and improving the ecological environment is developing productivity. Green development has become a consensus, and its form is shifting from responsibility to value. From the formal implementation of the Environmental Protection Tax Law in early 2018, establishing market rules of "benefiting from pollution reduction and emission reduction, and suffering from exceeding emission standards," to the formal launch of the national carbon emission trading system and the nationwide promotion of the emission permit system; from the central bank's formulation of the "Trial Measures for the Evaluation of Green Credit Performance of Banking Depositary Financial Institutions," actively promoting the development of green finance, to the NDRC's announcement of "Opinions on Innovating and Improving the Price Mechanism to Promote Green Development," it can be seen that the state is further improving the price mechanism that combines incentives and constraints, determining the degree of resource scarcity, ecological value, and environmental damage costs. Green and environmental protection elements are beginning to be fully integrated into the industry's production and value systems.

Green mountains and clear waters are both natural wealth and ecological wealth, as well as social wealth and economic wealth. The asset-ization of responsibility is entering the fast lane. In 2018, the textile industry carried out a series of actions around green manufacturing and achieved remarkable results.

In 2018, the chemical fiber industry continued to carry out the "Green Fiber Mark" certification work. So far, 21 leading enterprises in the production of bio-based chemical fibers, recycled chemical fibers, and solution-dyed chemical fibers have obtained the "Green Fiber Mark" certification. These enterprises attach great importance to the relevant work of green fibers, regarding it as one of the important directions for industrial transformation and upgrading, and have equipped strong forces in team building, production, and technology, striving to achieve the green sustainability of the entire life cycle of fibers, laying a solid foundation for the green development of the industry.

In addition to the correct guidance of industry associations, enterprises, based on their own development requirements, have actively participated in green development and joined forces to build communication platforms. Tangshan Sanyou and Sai Deli, together with the China Chemical Fiber Industry Association, jointly initiated the establishment of the "Regenerated Cellulose Fiber Industry Green Development Alliance" and issued a three-year action plan. In the future, it is believed that on this industry-wide platform for mutual supervision and promotion of green development, the impact of regenerated cellulose fiber production and its entire life cycle on the environment will be minimized.

In 2018, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) announced the "Third Batch of Green Manufacturing List." 22 textile and apparel companies were selected as green factories, 35 products were rated as green design products, and 3 companies were rated as green supply chain management demonstration enterprises, including leading enterprises such as Xuzhou Silk Fiber Technology Co., Ltd., Heimu Dan Textile Co., Ltd., Jiangsu Danmao Textile Co., Ltd., and Xin Fengming Group Huzhou Zhongshi Technology Co., Ltd. To date, a total of 41 textile and apparel companies have been selected as green factories, 42 products have been rated as green design products, and 3 companies have been rated as green supply chain management demonstration enterprises.

In recent years, the China Textile Ecological Civilization Ten Thousand Miles Journey series of activities have successively visited many large enterprises, including Hutai, Wanshi Li, Lutai, Jialin Jie, and Dongdu, forming an evaluation system and implementation model suitable for the ecological civilization construction of the textile industry. It is worth mentioning that in 2018, the China Textile Ecological Civilization Ten Thousand Miles Journey activity went to Huangmei County, Hubei Province, conducting new explorations of green development in county-level industrial clusters and promoting a large number of water-saving technologies, which played a role in promoting industrial development.

Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets. Green has become an important value measure for the development of the industry. Doing a good job in environmental protection is related to value creation and even the survival of enterprises. The impact of factors such as policy pressure, market clearing, and product price premiums means that industry enterprises that have made early arrangements for green development are gaining increasingly greater competitive advantages.

Today, with the rapid development and application of emerging technologies, industrial boundaries are becoming increasingly blurred, and cross-border integration has become a major trend in the new round of industrial upgrading. At this critical historical period, the textile industry is actively seizing the opportunities and accelerating the promotion of industrial integration, vigorously developing cross-border industries, and striving to win the first-mover advantage in industrial upgrading.

The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China emphasized the need to firmly implement the military-civilian integration development strategy, forming a deeply integrated military-civilian development pattern and building an integrated national strategic system and capabilities. Military-civilian integration development, as a national strategy, is related to the overall national security and economic development, and provides abundant resources and sustainable development momentum for achieving the modernization of national defense and the army and new economic growth points for the textile industry.

The textile industry, as a field with a relatively high concentration of private enterprises, not only has a large population, but also has a rich variety of products involved in military-civilian integration. For a long time, textiles have been a major military equipment item second only to steel materials, a foundation for ensuring combat effectiveness, and an important field for implementing the military-civilian integration strategy.

After years of development, the textile industry has formed a high-level textile military-industrial supporting system covering industry organizations, universities, research institutions, backbone enterprises, and demand-side units. The textile industry has undertaken the research and development and advanced management of military textiles and has a complete military-industrial supporting system.

Because military products in the textile industry have high technological content and quality requirements, especially higher requirements for weapon equipment protective products, in 2018, the China Textile Industry Federation established the China Textile Military-Civilian Integration Working Committee to promote military-civilian integration work with a more professional organization. Gao Yong, Party Secretary and Secretary-General of the China Textile Industry Federation pointed out that, in the next step, the textile industry will also formulate "Guiding Opinions on the Military-Civilian Integration Development of the China Textile Industry" to more systematically promote military-civilian integration work.

The textile industry will fully implement the national military-civilian integration strategy, further accelerate the pace of "going global" and "bringing in" technologies and services, and build a military-civilian integration industrial system with distinctive characteristics and strong core competitiveness. Actively aligning with central and national major strategies, focusing on emerging and strategic fields, promoting national major scientific and technological projects, breaking through core and key technologies of military textiles, and accelerating the promotion of military-civilian scientific and technological collaborative innovation.

In addition, deepening industry-finance cooperation is an important driving force for promoting high-quality development of the textile industry and implementing the new positioning of the textile industry. In recent years, the China Textile Industry Federation has promoted industry-finance work through various forms of services, strengthening the research, exchange, and docking of industry-finance work.

In 2018, in order to adapt to the new requirements for the development of the textile industry, the MIIT and the China Textile Industry Federation carried out in-depth cooperation, guiding the China Textile Industry Federation to formulate the "Three-Year Action Plan for Industry-Finance Integration in the Textile Industry," releasing a list of key enterprises to be cultivated, and coordinating with relevant financial institutions such as the China Securities Regulatory Commission and the China Banking Regulatory Commission to establish cooperative relationships, achieving initial results.

To achieve high-quality development of the textile industry, it is necessary to further enhance the awareness of entrepreneurs in capital operation and improve the understanding of the industry by financial institutions; strengthen the leadership role of the organizational structure of industry-finance work and concentrate on doing basic service work in the industry; innovate investment and financing models to expand financing channels, and adopt both direct and indirect financing.

The textile and apparel industry, as a leading industry in China's industrialization, plays an important role in poverty alleviation. In recent years, the textile and apparel industry has actively responded to the central government's basic principles of "six precise" poverty alleviation, adhering to differentiated policies based on classification, region, causes of poverty, and types of poverty. This has ushered in an advanced model of blood transfusion-style poverty alleviation in the textile and apparel industry, creating a "textile industry model in precise poverty alleviation."

In-depth research, precise identification. Through in-depth research, precisely understanding the development needs of the local textile and apparel industry, effectively solving the employment problems of local impoverished people, can effectively promote the high-quality and sustainable development of the local textile and apparel industry.

In 2018, the research team of the China National Textile and Apparel Council conducted field research in Yunnan and Xinjiang. In Yunnan, the research team visited the Xiaolongyin Embroidery Girls Base. This base, with the concept of "inheritance + training + innovation" and the operating model of "company + base + embroidery girls," has created a new Dian embroidery development chain and built a new economic ecosystem for textile intangible cultural heritage poverty alleviation; in Xinjiang, Xinjiang Hongdou Garment Co., Ltd. has created a long-term and stable "employment factory," responding to the "10,000 enterprises helping 10,000 villages" campaign, providing one-on-one assistance to those in difficulty, and making positive contributions to the healthy and sustainable development of the local area.

Tailored measures, precise support. Based on the characteristics of the industry and the needs of local industry poverty alleviation, adopting different support strategies for different regions and causes of poverty can effectively absorb surplus labor force in impoverished areas and broaden the path to poverty alleviation.

The "Clever Housewives" project implemented in Henan, in the form of "company + farmer households," arranges surplus rural labor to work at their doorstep, breaking the bottleneck in the development of the clothing industry and solving the problem of poverty alleviation for farmers; Shaanxi actively promotes the "Three Qin Clever Women" project, establishing industrial poverty alleviation demonstration bases and demonstration enterprises, effectively promoting Shaanxi's clothing industry poverty alleviation work; the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Women's Federation, together with the Yiwen Group, has created a new model of entrepreneurial poverty alleviation, promoting the industrialization of Inner Mongolian national costumes.

Balanced development, precise management. Precise poverty alleviation depends on close cooperation between the eastern and western regions. By promoting investment and factory construction by eastern textile enterprises in western regions, fully absorbing impoverished people in western regions for employment and achieving poverty alleviation, it can effectively cultivate industrial workers and promote local economic development.

Wuzhong City, Ningxia has successively introduced a number of strong textile enterprises such as Ruyi Group and Hengfeng Textile, exploring and innovating the "government + enterprise + impoverished households" model of industrial poverty alleviation, forming the poverty alleviation experience of "building industries at the doorstep," achieving a successful transformation from "blood transfusion-style" poverty alleviation to "blood creation-style" poverty alleviation; Huafu's "Double Hundred Poverty Alleviation" plan has effectively promoted the healthy and rapid development of Aksu's local economy and social undertakings in Xinjiang. In addition, activities such as "Textile Light • Love and Benefit Action" and "2018 Warm Winter Action" initiated by the Textile Light Science and Education Foundation have continuously achieved precise docking, bringing warmth and care to impoverished and disaster-stricken areas in Yunnan, Guizhou, Shaanxi and other provinces.

At the critical moment of winning the battle to build a moderately prosperous society in all respects and on the road to building a strong textile country, the battle against poverty alleviation is still ongoing. At the fourth enlarged meeting of the fourth session of the Standing Committee of the China National Textile and Apparel Council held earlier, Sun Ruizhe, President of the China National Textile and Apparel Council said that in 2019, the China National Textile and Apparel Council will continue to promote the implementation of the national precise poverty alleviation tasks through industrial transfer and industrial poverty alleviation funds; deepen the public service of industrial clusters and industrial transfer, do a good job in enterprise docking, and reasonably promote the flow of industrial resources from the eastern coastal areas to the central and western regions; conduct training for management and innovation personnel in remote areas such as the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and continue to accelerate the transformation of impoverished people and families into industrial workers.

In recent years, textile enterprises across the country have taken the improvement of employees' innovation and creativity as their guide, accelerated the construction of a team of knowledge-based, skilled, and innovative personnel, guided the vast number of textile workers to further invigorate their labor enthusiasm and unleash their creative potential, and cultivated a group of textile craftsmen with superb skills and innovative and surpassing qualities, providing strong skilled talent support for the high-quality development of the textile real economy.

In order to further promote the spirit of craftsmanship and model worker spirit in the national textile industry, create an industry atmosphere that respects skills and talent, and inspire the enthusiasm of textile workers to learn, practice, and master skills, and to accelerate the creation of a high-skilled talent team that meets the strategic requirements of innovation-driven development and industrial transformation and upgrading in the textile industry, in October 2018, the China National Textile and Apparel Council and the China Federation of Trade Unions for Finance, Commerce, Light Industry, Tobacco and Alcohol jointly named the second batch of 20 "China Textile Great Craftsmen." They embody the great character of contemporary textile workers, fully demonstrate the exemplary style and excellent qualities of the contemporary working class, and also reflect the progress with the times and the inheritance of the textile industry spirit. Currently, "China Textile Great Craftsmen" has become a brand in the industry, and striving to become a great craftsman has become a conscious action of the vast number of employees.

In November 2018, the "China Textile Great Craftsmen" deeds report meeting and on-site technical exchange and mentoring activity of the craftsmen's unique skills and expertise organized by the China Textile Workers' Ideological and Political Work Research Association went to Nanning Jinhong Cotton Textile Co., Ltd., where three "China Textile Great Craftsmen" conducted on-site technical learning, discussion, and exchange with the cadres and employees of Nanning Jinhong. This activity was the first major craftsman deeds publicity activity in the Chinese textile industry and even the Chinese industrial sector.

Jiang Guohua, Secretary-General of the China Textile Workers' Ideological and Political Work Research Association summarized that the selection of China Textile Great Craftsmen is a means, and the purpose is to promote the advanced operating methods and superb skills of great craftsmen to the industry. The textile industry is the first in the industrial system to organize publicity, exchange, and mentoring activities for great craftsmen, which is the best inheritance of the spirit of great craftsmen. Inviting several China Textile Great Craftsmen to enterprises to carry out "one-on-one" technical mentoring activities is to give full play to the role of craftsmen in "passing on, helping, and guiding," so that the unique skills and expertise of textile craftsmen can be better and more widely taught to more enterprise employees, cultivating and nurturing more craftsman talents in more textile enterprises, and continuously enhancing the innovation and competitiveness of textile enterprises. In the new year, on the basis of continuing to carry out the selection of industry craftsmen, the China Textile Political Research Association will further improve the work of passing on, helping, and guiding the unique skills and expertise of craftsmen and the improvement of innovation ability and new knowledge training for textile craftsmen, so that the spirit of textile craftsmen will continue to be promoted and inherited.

Yang Dongxu, Vice Chairman of the China Federation of Trade Unions for Finance, Commerce, Light Industry, Tobacco and Alcohol It also calls for organizing craftsmen to carry out "passing on, helping, and guiding" activities, transmitting their accumulated cultural knowledge, technical skills, experience, and methods from work and study to employees, inspiring employees to learn new technologies, master new skills, and strive to be good craftsmen, striving to become knowledgeable, skilled, and innovative new-era workers, and contributing to the high-quality development of the textile industry. We should vigorously promote the advanced deeds of "textile master craftsmen" and outstanding employees, tell their stories, express their craftsman's sentiments, and convey the spirit of craftsmanship to more employees, truly internalizing and externalizing the spirit of craftsmanship, promoting the spirit of craftsmanship to become the basic value principle of industry development, and letting the spirit of craftsmanship lead Chinese textiles.

In 2018, in the face of consumption upgrades, various brands in the textile and apparel industry blossomed, but whether it is a leading brand or a niche brand, cultural connotation has become an unspoken development theme, and consumers are increasingly paying attention to the satisfaction of spiritual aspects such as fashion, culture, taste, and personality. Looking at the international scene, the development of the Chinese economy can only truly build a complete export system and become a significant player in the world economic circle by accompanying cultural growth.

Regarding cultural innovation in the industry, Sun Ruizhe, President of the China National Textile and Apparel Council It points out that, based on the profound and extensive traditional Chinese culture, along with the accelerated integration of the global fashion industry with its "unquestioning" approach, the Chinese textile industry should actively achieve the "creative transformation" and "innovative development" of the fashion culture revival, enhancing the industry's connotation-oriented development and high value-added development.

Chen Dapeng, Vice President of the China National Textile and Apparel Council and President of the China Apparel Association Also pointed out that consumption upgrades are not only reflected in consumers' needs for higher-quality material needs but also in their needs for higher aesthetic cultural needs. Enterprises need to increase their research and understanding of diverse cultures and contemporary lifestyles, making cultural creativity and humanistic thinking an important support for the enterprise's value creation.

In addition to various brands using culture as a driving force for development, many well-known domestic textile and apparel clusters such as Hangzhou Yishang Town, Dalang Fashion Town, and Shaoxing Keqiao, which has decades of industry accumulation, have also focused on cultural innovation, relying on oriental culture to establish new advantages for the Chinese textile and apparel industry.

At the 2018 China International Fashion Week, designers brought creative displays based on rich content such as traditional culture, national costumes, and intangible cultural heritage projects, fully reflecting the contemporary Chinese fashion designers' new expressions of cultural heritage in the context of the global fashion industry development, based on the background of the times. The comparative advantages of the development of the Chinese fashion industry and the long-standing elements of traditional Chinese culture shine brightly here.

Today, the protection, inheritance, and promotion of intangible cultural heritage has also become a historical issue facing the Chinese textile and apparel industry. With the conclusion of the 2018 "Splendid China" - China Intangible Cultural Heritage Costume Show series of events at the Gong Wangfu in Beijing, the audience witnessed the bright future of traditional Chinese crafts and intangible cultural heritage entering life.

Shortly thereafter, the second China Textile Intangible Cultural Heritage Conference was held, bringing together entrepreneurs, designers, intangible cultural heritage inheritors, experts and scholars, and even financial professionals from various perspectives to explore the profound significance of intangible cultural heritage for the development of the Chinese textile and apparel industry and the many possibilities for future applications. Intangible cultural heritage entering life is no longer a slogan but a continuous and profound cultural action.

Looking forward to 2019, China's textile and apparel industry is standing at an unprecedented height, facing the market and the world with culturally confident and diverse expressions. The stable, continuous, and constantly innovating development trend of Chinese culture also proves that the Chinese fashion industry maintains a healthy and good development trend in the new era, and the cultural path of Chinese enterprises is long and brilliant.