Textile Industry Party Building: A New Logic of Industrial Governance from 'Correct Performance View'

On July 1st, the CNTAC Party Committee held a themed event for over 700 members, putting industrial governance back in the spotlight. While the theme 'Forever Follow the Party, Weave the Original Aspiration' may seem routine, the core agenda—a special party lecture by President Sun Ruizhe titled 'Establishing and Practicing a Correct View of Performance to Lead High-Quality Industry Development'—revealed a collective introspection within the textile industry during its transformation. The event featured new member oath-taking and commemorative medals for 50-year party members, while the lecture directly addressed three risks: pragmatism undermining political stance, departmentalism impacting overall development, and short-termism affecting long-term growth. Sun emphasized that high-quality association development 'fundamentally relies on party leadership and crucially depends on party building,' elevating party work from a formal routine to a governance engine. For the textile industry, the past decade has seen capacity expansion and market volatility, with regional clusters like Keqiao and Shengze frequently adjusting strategies under environmental pressure and order fragmentation, revealing short-sighted decisions and coordination gaps. The lecture uses 'correct performance view' as a lever to shift focus from scale to quality. The event's '3+1' framework—three ceremonies plus a lecture—included the awarding of new seals to 10 restructured grassroots party organizations, hinting at internal organizational optimization to extend service reach into sub-sectors. Sun outlined 'five achievements' in party building: guiding industry direction, standardizing practices, driving innovation, fostering international cooperation, and practicing party-building thought. This logic will reshape how associations interact with enterprises. For example, 'standardizing practices' means more proactive rule-making, while 'innovation driving' requires associations to act as catalysts for green transformation. For foreign trade firms, the emphasis on international cooperation signals more frequent overseas matchmaking and trade rule interpretation. Sun warned against 'pragmatism damaging political stance,' targeting practices where local associations or firms sacrifice environmental standards for short-term orders. The event's '1 main venue + 42 sub-venues' format ensures rapid transmission of this philosophy across the system. For buyers and factories, this means future policy enforcement will be more consistent, reducing regional policy arbitrage.