Textile Industry Party Building Activities Surge: How the Red Engine Drives Industrial Upgrading

From late June to early July 2025, more than ten leading textile enterprises, including Shenghong Holding Group, Weiqiao Venture Group, and Hengli Group, intensively held a series of events themed around the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party. From commending outstanding Party members to organizing red study tours, from thematic Party lectures to chorus galas, this 'red action' covering the entire industry chain from chemical fiber, fabrics, apparel to home textiles is rare in its scale and consistency in recent years.

Industry Signals Behind the Activity Density

According to public information, Shenghong Holding Group held a 'Two Excellences and One First' commendation conference on June 30, where Party Secretary Miao Hangen deployed the integration of Party building with business, management system optimization, work style construction, and talent cultivation under a 'four combinations' framework. On the same day, Hengli Group held a red light-and-shadow creative performance competition at its Suzhou Industrial Park, with Party Secretary Lu Kun awarding 12 Party branches for their original performances. Weiqiao Venture Group organized a chorus gala on the same evening involving over 2,000 employees and cadres.

This temporal clustering is no coincidence. The Texworld editorial team noted that Ordos Group, Dasheng Group, Hongdou Group, Tongkun Group, Anhui Huamao Group, and Yueda Textile also held similar events between June 27 and 30. Dasheng Group even merged its Party building achievement exhibition with the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Nantong Independent Party Branch at Dasheng Cotton Mill, directly linking Party building with a century-old industrial history.

Party Building Shifts from 'Ritual' to 'Management Tool'

The content design of these activities reveals a clear trend: Party building is being systematically embedded into daily operations and strategic decision-making. In Shenghong's 'four combinations,' the combination of Party building with talent cultivation stands out, indicating that enterprises are using Party organizations as an auxiliary channel for talent screening and reserve. Hongdou Group Party Secretary Zhou Haijiang used the four dimensions of Yan'an Spirit—firm political direction, seeking truth from facts, serving the people wholeheartedly, and self-reliance and hard struggle—to correspond to the enterprise's development stance, standards, original intention, and work style, essentially wrapping a management methodology in political language.

Tongkun Group's approach is more concrete. In June, the group's Party committee organized over 650 Party members to travel to Zunyi, Guizhou, for a red study tour, visiting the Zunyi Red Army Martyrs Cemetery and the Zunyi Conference Exhibition Hall. Senior executives Chen Shiliang, Xu Jinxiang, and Chen Lei personally led the team. Tongkun officially paralleled its corporate spirit of 'unity, hard work, pragmatism, and innovation' with the Long March spirit, emphasizing the logic of 'when people are united and steps are steady, any difficulty can be overcome.' For a company that has weathered multiple rounds of price fluctuations and overcapacity in the chemical fiber sector, such spiritual mobilization is far from hollow rhetoric.

Potential Impact on the Industry Chain

This top-down organizational mobilization may have several substantive impacts on the textile industry. First, during the capacity adjustment period, Party building activities help stabilize the frontline workforce. Anhui Huamao Group Party Secretary Ni Junlong emphasized 'putting morality first and consolidating the quality and efficiency of grassroots Party building' at the commendation conference, against the backdrop of widespread recruitment difficulties and young employee turnover in textile enterprises. Second, under green transformation pressure, Party building can serve as a lever to push environmental standards. The Ordos Group overlaps its Party building grid with the production management grid, with 13 grassroots Party branches recognized as municipal-level 'strong fortresses.' This organizational structure helps decompose carbon reduction targets down to the team level.

Third, for buyers and foreign trade companies, this level of organization in leading enterprises implies higher delivery stability and quality consistency. The Party building activities of Shenghong, Hengli, and Weiqiao all emphasize 'practical work' and 'tackling difficulties,' indirectly signaling management's emphasis on production discipline and efficiency. For downstream buyers relying on these suppliers, this is a positive signal.

Practical Recommendations

For Buyers - Monitor the frequency and content of leading companies' Party building activities. If a company consistently links Party building with production targets over consecutive years, its supply chain stability and risk resistance are typically stronger. - When evaluating suppliers, incorporate organizational mobilization capability as a non-financial indicator. Especially during urgent orders with tight deadlines, highly organized companies can often deploy resources more quickly.

For Foreign Trade Enterprises - For companies exporting to European and American markets, Party building activities themselves do not constitute trade barriers, but the green transformation and compliance management (e.g., carbon footprint tracking) promoted through Party building may become new focal points in future customer factory audits. - Leverage government-enterprise relationships accumulated through activities like red study tours to secure local government export subsidies or green credit support. For instance, Ordos Group received the 'Inner Mongolia Charity Award' due to its Party building achievements, which can be a plus when applying for policy-based loans.