The textile industry is undergoing an internal governance upgrade. The latest deployment of Xi Jinping's thought on Party building at the National Party Building Work Symposium provides a new development coordinate for this highly marketized and internationalized industry. Data shows that in 2023, the total profit of textile enterprises above designated size grew by 3.8% year-on-year, but industry differentiation intensified—enterprises integrating Party building into their governance structure demonstrated stronger resilience under export pressure. This is not accidental but a concrete manifestation of the greatest advantage of Party leadership at the industrial level.
Deep Coupling of Party Building Thought and Industrial Governance
Xi Jinping's thought on Party building emphasizes the extreme importance of 'adhering to the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee.' For the textile industry, this means that amid supply chain restructuring and rising green barriers, corporate decisions must transcend short-term profit-seeking and resonate with national strategies. In textile clusters in the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta, over 60% of enterprises above designated size have established mechanisms for Party organizations to participate in major business decisions. This governance model of 'setting direction, managing the overall situation, and ensuring implementation' is directly reflected in the rational control of capacity transfer to Southeast Asia—in 2023, the industry's outward investment growth rate slowed to 5.7%, but investment quality significantly improved, with more funds directed toward intelligent transformation rather than simple expansion.
Comprehensive and strict Party governance has also yielded tangible management dividends in the textile industry. Over the past two years, the industry's average accounts receivable turnover rate increased by 12%, and the bad debt rate fell to a historic low of 1.8%. Behind this is the rigid constraint of Party organizations in compliance review and corruption risk prevention, which directly reduces transaction costs. For small and medium-sized textile enterprises, this institutional advantage is transforming into real cash flow improvements.
From 'Never Forget the Original Aspiration' to the Value Anchor of Industrial Upgrading
'Never forget the original aspiration and keep the mission firmly in mind' is regarded by Xi Jinping's thought on Party building as an eternal subject. Mapped onto the textile industry, the original aspiration is to meet the people's needs for a better life. This has directly driven the explosive growth of functional fabrics and green fibers—in 2023, the output of regenerated cellulose fiber increased by 18% year-on-year, and the number of organic cotton certified enterprises exceeded 200. Enterprises no longer solely pursue production scale but link product quality and environmental standards with brand value. A knitting enterprise in Keqiao, Shaoxing, frankly stated that Party building learning redefined their understanding of 'good fabric'—not just high strength and good hand feel, but also degradable and low carbon footprint.
This value shift is particularly evident on the export side. After the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) transitional period began, leading domestic textile enterprises, relying on their early deployment of carbon management systems, gained a 3%-5% bargaining space. The core driving force behind building this system is the strategic support from Party organizations—most enterprises had placed the 'dual carbon' goal on the Party committee agenda as early as 2021.
Industry Breakthrough Path Guided by Scientific Thought Methods
The methodology of 'understanding the essence and applying it thoroughly, integrating substance and function' contained in Xi Jinping's thought on Party building provides a toolkit for the textile industry to cope with complex situations. Facing external pressures such as the U.S. Uyghur Act and the EU's supply chain due diligence, the industry has not fallen into passive response but actively built a 'Party building + compliance' system. In 2023, the China National Textile and Apparel Council, in cooperation with local Party organizations, launched the 'Compliance Guidelines for Overseas Operations of Textile Enterprises,' covering 12 key nodes from raw material traceability to labor rights. This approach of 'deploying the task of crossing the river while solving the problem of the bridge or boat' enabled the industry's export volume to RCEP member countries to grow against the trend by 7.2% in 2023.
In the field of technological breakthroughs, the 'organizational power' of Party building is transforming into 'innovation power.' The National Innovation Center for Advanced Functional Fibers was jointly initiated by Party organizations of several leading enterprises, concentrating efforts to overcome 'bottleneck' technologies such as high-strength, high-modulus polyethylene fiber and para-aramid. In 2023, the industry's R&D investment intensity reached 1.8%, with the R&D conversion efficiency of Party building demonstration enterprises 23 percentage points higher than the industry average. This proves that once scientific thought methods are integrated with industrial practice, they can release geometric innovation momentum.