Around the 2025 July 1st Party Day, over a dozen leading textile enterprises, including Shenghong, Weiqiao, Erdos, Dasheng, Hongdou, Tongkun, Hengli, Anhui Huamao, and Yueda Textile, launched intensive Party-building activities. These ranged from commendation ceremonies to study tours and cultural performances. The common thread is clear: embedding the Party's 'red genes' into corporate governance. This is not mere ceremony but a strategic move by an industry facing overcapacity, rising costs, and green transition pressures to seek organizational efficiency and spiritual cohesion.
Integration of Party Building and Business: From Slogans to Shop Floor Productivity
At Shenghong, Party Secretary Miao Hangen outlined a 'four combinations' approach: linking Party-building with business operations, management system optimization, work style improvement, and talent development. This framework moves Party-building beyond slogans into the company's operational capillaries. Erdos Group provides concrete data: 1,956 members, 13 Party committees, 8 general branches, and 92 branches form a red network covering the entire value chain. An innovation team from its chemical division won the Inner Mongolia Youth May Fourth Medal, proving that Party-building can yield tangible R&D outputs.
Dasheng Group's case adds historical depth. On June 27, it commemorated the 100th anniversary of the Nantong Independent Party Branch's founding at Dasheng Cotton Mill. This means the industry's red genes trace back to China's early industrial era. When Chairman Bao Weidong spoke of 'inheritance and development', he addressed a real challenge: how state-owned enterprises can use Party-building to revitalize organizational energy against private and foreign competitors.
Cultural Innovation: Red Light-and-Shadow Performances and Silk Creative Products
Hengli Group's 'Red Light-and-Shadow Creative Performance Competition' is notable. 12 Party branches created original performances based on classic red films, blending Party history with job insights. This breaks the monotony of traditional lectures, engaging younger employees. Dasheng Silk took a more product-oriented approach: artisans created red-themed silk cultural and creative items. This can open a high-end custom gift market, turning Party elements into differentiated product power.
Weiqiao's choral gala attracted over 2,000 employees. Song choices from 'We Workers Have Strength' to 'We Are Weiqiao Pioneers' aimed at identity building: workers as both producers and bearers of national strategy. For large manufacturers with tens of thousands of workers, such spiritual mobilization helps stabilize labor relations and reduce turnover.
External Pressure as Catalyst: Why Party-Building Became Industry Consensus
Tongkun Group sent 650 members to Zunyi for a red study tour. Chairman Chen Shiliang paralleled Tongkun's 'unity, pragmatism, innovation' spirit with the Long March spirit, saying 'no matter how tough the road, if people unite and steps are steady, we can get through'. The context: 2024-2025 saw the textile industry face volatile export orders, high raw material prices, and rising environmental costs. Party-building here provides certainty amid uncertainty—improving execution through organizational discipline and reducing internal friction through value alignment.
At Hongdou, Party Secretary Zhou Haijiang deployed development strategies based on the four dimensions of Yan'an Spirit, emphasizing 'self-reliance and hard struggle'. For many small and medium textile enterprises dependent on foreign orders, domestic market development and own-brand building are survival keys. The entrepreneurial core of Yan'an Spirit fits the industry's shift from OEM to branding.