From late June to early July 2025, China's textile industry witnessed a concentrated wave of Party-building activities. Over a dozen leading firms—including Shenghong Holdings, Erdos Group, Dasheng Group, Hongdou Group, Weiqiao Venture Group, Dali Silk, Tongkun Group, Hengli Group, Anhui Huamao Group, and Yueda Textile—held recognition ceremonies, special Party lessons, red study tours, chorus galas, and red-themed creative performances within nearly the same time window. On the surface, this appears to be a routine celebration of the 105th anniversary of the Communist Party of China. However, details disclosed in activity reports reveal a substantive shift in core logic: Party-building is evolving from a political task into a management tool.
The 'Four Integrations' Logic of Party-Building and Corporate Governance
The 'four integrations' proposed by Shenghong Chairman Miao Hangen during his special Party lesson serve as a typical footnote to this trend. He aligned Party-building with business operations, management system optimization, work style construction, and talent development, explicitly requiring it to 'steer the corporate direction,' 'form synergy,' 'cultivate a clean workplace culture,' and 'build a talent pipeline.' This is not empty rhetoric but a move to embed the Party organizational framework into daily decision-making chains.
Dasheng Group's case carries deeper historical weight. The group commemorated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Nantong Independent Party Branch at the Dasheng Cotton Mill during its celebration—meaning that as early as 1925, this textile enterprise was already a carrier of red genes. Party Secretary Bao Weidong defined 'Dasheng culture' as a convergence of Zhang Jian's entrepreneurial spirit, red genes, craftsmanship, and patriotism, requiring branch secretaries to act as 'cultural propagandists.' This historical narrative essentially seeks an anchor for internal cultural identity and cohesion that transcends short-term profits.
Erdos Group demonstrated Party-building's organizational density: 13 Party committees, 8 general branches, 92 branches, and 1,956 members. This network serves not only political study but directly translates into 'fighting bastions' for production and operations—13 grassroots branches won 'Strong Fortress' awards at the municipal level, and the innovation team from the PVC No. 2 Plant won the Inner Mongolia Youth May Fourth Medal. Party-building driving mass organizations is not a rhetorical device here but a real output of organizational effectiveness.
The Implicit Link Between Red Study Tours and Industrial Upgrading
Tongkun Group organized over 650 Party members on a red study trip to Zunyi, Guizhou, visiting the Red Army Martyrs' Cemetery and the Zunyi Conference Memorial Hall. Chairman Chen Shiliang, Party Secretary Xu Jinxiang, and Deputy Party Secretary Chen Lei led the entire team. Tongkun aligned its corporate spirit of 'unity, hard work, pragmatism, and innovation' with the Long March spirit, emphasizing that 'no matter how difficult the road, as long as people are united and steps are steady, we can break through.'
This polyester giant faces industry-wide pressure from overcapacity and shrinking processing margins in 2024-2025. The red study tour's actual function is not mere Party history education but a form of 'spiritual mobilization' by management to unify internal consensus and boost confidence. When market signals are chaotic and order volatility increases, internal cultural cohesion often becomes a buffer against uncertainty.
Hongdou Group Party Secretary Zhou Haijiang used the four dimensions of Yan'an Spirit (firm correct political direction, emancipating the mind and seeking truth from facts, serving the people wholeheartedly, and self-reliance and hard struggle) as a framework to systematically deploy the company's development path. He emphasized 'the more difficult the situation, the more we must advance,' directly mapping Yan'an Spirit onto four management dimensions: development stance, development standard, development初心, and development style. This is essentially a set of corporate crisis response methodologies based on historical experience.
From Ritual to Performance
Hengli Group's red-themed creative performance competition combined original creations from 12 Party branches with recognition of 'Party Member Vanguard Posts' and 'Advanced Party Branches.' Anhui Huamao Group held a 'Three Firsts, One Excellence' recognition conference, with Party Secretary Ni Junlong emphasizing 'high-quality Party-building leading high-quality corporate development.' Yueda Textile organized Party members and cadres on a red experiential education trip to Nanjing.
A common feature of these activities is that they no longer stop at oath-taking and singing red songs but add measurable, assessable elements such as 'project tackling,' 'results display,' and 'post achievement.' The performance-ization of Party-building is becoming a new tool for textile enterprise management—it can boost frontline execution through organizational mobilization without increasing budgets, especially in areas requiring cross-departmental collaboration like technical upgrading, cost reduction, efficiency improvement, and green transformation.
Conduction Effects on the Supply Chain
For textile industry buyers and foreign trade companies, this trend is not irrelevant. When upstream fabric and yarn suppliers deeply embed Party-building into their management processes, it may signal changes in their internal decision-making mechanisms, delivery stability, and compliance risk control.
- Integration with talent development: suggests a preference for internal promotion and long-term employment, potentially increasing supply chain stability.
- Integration with work style construction: suggests greater emphasis on contract fulfillment and commercial integrity, a signal that can reduce transaction costs for buyers.
- Integration with green transformation: suggests more resources allocated to environmental compliance and carbon footprint management, a positive for foreign trade firms dealing with European and American green barriers.