Xiajin County, Shandong Province has always been famous for its cotton planting throughout the country. The cotton planting area has stabilized at more than 200,000 acres. It is known as “Silver Xiajin” and is a famous cotton textile city in China. The regional brand value of “Xiajin Yarn” as assessed by the China Quality Certification Center reaches 4.6 billion yuan. The textile industry has become a shining business card for Xiajin’s economic development.
In recent years, the textile industry, as a traditional pillar industry in Xiajin County, has been developing in equipment automation and intelligence. Product diversification and high-endization have been continuously improved, promoting the transformation and upgrading of industrial clusters. In 2019, Xiajin County Textile Industry Cluster won the “Excellent Case Award for Industrial Cluster Transformation” from the Shandong Textile Association. So, how is the current development of the spinning industry in Xiajin County? What outstanding problems are faced? How do companies transform and upgrade?
The benefits of enterprises with a strong foundation in the spinning industry have declined
Xia Jin The county’s textile industry has a total spinning capacity of approximately 2 million spindles, accounting for 50% of that of Dezhou City, Shandong Province. There are 78 spinning enterprises, including 44 ring spinning enterprises and 39 open-end spinning enterprises, of which 5 enterprises have both ring spinning and open-end spinning. In 2019, the county’s spinning (including wool spinning) enterprises had main business income of approximately 5.390 billion yuan and realized profits of approximately 300 million yuan. In 2019, the total taxes and fees paid by spinning enterprises were 99 million yuan, a decrease of 10.22 million yuan compared with 2018, and a year-on-year decrease of 9.29%. Due to the impact of Sino-US trade friction and structural adjustment, the efficiency of some ring spinning enterprises has declined.
According to reports, among the spinning enterprises in Xiajin County, Huafang Xiajin Textile Co., Ltd. is the largest, with 250,000 spindles. Followed by Xiajin Renhe Textile Technology Co., Ltd. with 140,000 spindles. There are 8 companies with over 50,000 spindles in the county, with a total of 758,000 spindles, accounting for 38% of the total number of spindles in the industry, and have a strong influence on the entire industry.
In 2019, Xiajin County textile enterprises produced a total of 234,600 tons of cotton yarn, a slight decrease from 2018. Most local cotton textile companies in Xiajin County mainly produce high-quality pure cotton yarns, as well as blended, woolen, semi-worsted, and new products such as Tencel, Modal, and bamboo fiber yarns. Among them, there are 53 companies that only produce pure cotton yarn, accounting for about 68%; there are 22 companies that produce blended yarns and special yarns, accounting for about 28%; wool spinning companies that produce high-quality cashmere yarns and blended yarns There are three companies, accounting for about 4%.
Xiajin County spinning enterprises can produce yarns ranging from 3 to 60 counts, of which the main products are 21 Count-count, 32-count, and 40-count yarns are the main ones, accounting for more than 90% of all enterprises. Products below 21-count and above 40-count account for a smaller proportion. Companies can change the count to meet the different needs of customers.
The main raw materials produced by cotton textile enterprises in Xiajin County are lint, with local cotton, Xinjiang cotton and imported cotton all accounting for a certain proportion , imported cotton is mainly American cotton, Australian cotton, and Brazilian cotton. Affected by the international trade situation, in 2019, although the number and tonnage of enterprises enjoying cotton quotas increased, the demand for enterprises to pay sliding taxes to purchase imported cotton decreased. The total amount of directly imported foreign cotton increased from 2018 to 2018. of 24,991 tons dropped to 22,422 tons, a decrease of 2,569 tons, or 11.45%. The total amount of imported cotton showed a contraction.
In terms of export, the export ratio of clothing and other products made from Xiajin County cotton yarn is as high as 60%. Demand is greatly affected by foreign market demand.
Technical transformation improves the level of intelligence, industry, academia and research promote the transformation of results
In recent years, in the face of severe market conditions, textile enterprises in Xiajin County have risen to the challenge, accelerated the pace of transformation, continuously increased investment, and carried out intelligent transformation and upgrading. The industry has responded to changes in demand The adaptability and flexibility of the industry continue to improve, and the industry as a whole operates smoothly and maintains steady growth.
Xiajin County has a total of 132 open-end spinning machines, 335 automatic winding machines, and about 2,500 spinning machines. , the main air-end spinning machines are Swiss Rieter, Schlafhorst, Saurer, Rifa, Titan and other series models; the automatic winding machines are Japanese Murata, Italian Lorian, Savio and Qingdao Hongda series models. Mainly; the main spinning machines are Best 420, Jingwei 516, Qingze 420 and other models.
In recent years, the textile industry in Xiajin County has continued to develop towards automation. 59 of the 78 spinning companies have The blowroom-carding line has the basic conditions for equipment automation. Especially after 2016, companies such as Zongying Textile, Ruixin Textile, Tonghui Textile, and Xinshi Cotton Industry have purchased new Murata Ubolol and pallet-type automatic winders. 32 units, which has greatly promoted the improvement of the overall automation level of the industry, reducing the industry’s average employment from 100 people/10,000 spindles to about 60 people/10,000 spindles, achieving semi-automation. Among them, enterprises with advanced equipment such as Zongying Textile, Ruixin Textile, and Tianrun Textile use “thick and fine link” and “fine link” on the basis of the “blow-carding link” of equipment, with one worker taking care of 2 to 3 automatic machines. The winding machine mainly handles equipment failures and has gradually realized automation. The number of workers has dropped to less than 30 people per 10,000 spindles, saving more than 70% of labor costs compared with the average level in the industry.
According to Guo Lijun, deputy secretary of the Party Leadership Group of Xiajin County Industry and Information Technology Bureau, from 2019 to 2020, the county’s textile industry There are 25 new projects or technical transformation projects with a total investment of 3.54 billion yuan. After all projects are completed, they can achieve new sales revenue of 5 billion yuan, new profits of 720 million yuan, and tax revenue of 240 million yuan. As of 2019�The whole industrial chain. In response to the Sino-US trade friction and the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic, the clothing and home textile industry at the end of the industrial chain has adopted a shift from export to domestic sales and from a bulk order sales model to an online sales model. Among them, Feite Clothing has been affected by the epidemic in the United States. The transportation of goods was affected, and the company used online store sales, which achieved good results in alleviating inventory pressure. In the next step, Xiajin County plans to guide and encourage enterprises to give full play to the role of online platforms, such as purchasing raw materials through online comparison through software such as “Mianmianbao”, selling products through online stores, and injecting foreign trade production capacity into the internal market.
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