Textile Industry Party Building Activities Reveal New Momentum for Real Economy: From Red Gene to Industrial Resilience

In late June 2025, China's leading textile enterprises held intensive activities to celebrate the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, covering more than a dozen listed companies and backbone enterprises including Shenghong, Weiqiao, Hengli, Erdos Group, Dasheng Group, Hongdou Group, Tongkun Group, Dasheng Silk, Anhui Huamao, and Yueda Textile. These events are not isolated but signal a collective effort by the industry to strengthen organizational resilience during a cyclical adjustment period.

Integration of Party Building and Operations: From 'Four Combinations' to 'Four-Dimensional Guidance'

At Shenghong Holdings Group's commendation conference on June 30, Party Secretary Miao Hangen proposed a 'four combinations' deployment, linking party building with business, management system optimization, work style construction, and talent cultivation. This is not an empty slogan but a pragmatic move to improve internal management efficiency amid overcapacity and profit pressure. Similarly, Hongdou Group Party Secretary Zhou Haijiang, in a morning meeting on June 29, used the 'four dimensions' of Yan'an Spirit—correct political direction, emancipating the mind, serving the people wholeheartedly, and self-reliance—to directly guide the company's development path.

This approach of translating red culture into management language is not new in the textile industry. At Dasheng Group's party building achievement exhibition on June 27, Party Secretary Bao Weidong emphasized the contemporary connotation of 'Dasheng Culture,' requiring branch secretaries to serve as 'cultural propagandists' to embed the spirit of 'seeking truth, innovation, dedication, and progress' at the grassroots. These cases show that party building activities are evolving from traditional political study to organizational capacity building.

Red Study Tours and Industrial Heritage: Tongkun and Yueda's Practice

Tongkun Group organized over 650 party members to visit Zunyi, Guizhou, in June for a red study tour, visiting the Zunyi Red Army Martyrs Cemetery and the Zunyi Conference Memorial Hall. Chairman Chen Shiliang, Party Secretary Xu Jinxiang, and Deputy Party Secretary Chen Lei all participated. Notably, Tongkun juxtaposed its corporate spirit of 'unity, hard work, pragmatism, and innovation' with the Long March Spirit, emphasizing that 'as long as people are united and steps are steady, there is no road that cannot be traversed.' This directly addresses the challenges of raw material price volatility and weak demand currently facing the chemical fiber industry.

Yueda Textile chose to conduct red experiential education at sites like the Presidential Palace and Meiyuan in Nanjing. The common thread is that both companies use external red resources as a vehicle for internal team building, rather than simply fulfilling a political task. This 'immersive' party building is essentially an upgraded version of corporate culture building.

Commendations and Innovation: Incentive Logic at Hengli and Huamao

At Hengli Group's red light and shadow creative performance on June 30, 12 party branches used classic red film clips as a medium, integrating party history interpretation and job insights into original performances. This format breaks the one-way indoctrination of traditional commendation meetings, shifting toward employee participation and content co-creation. Hengli Party Secretary Lu Kun read the 2026 commendation decision on site, recognizing outstanding party members and advanced branches on the production front.

Anhui Huamao Group's 'Three Firsts and One Excellence' commendation conference on June 28 saw Party Secretary Ni Junlong emphasize 'adhering to party leadership, theoretical study, foundation consolidation, and virtue first.' As a cotton textile leader, Huamao's party building focus is on mobilizing grassroots party workers and representatives, directly serving the stability and quality control of the production line.

Industry Implications: Red Gene as Organizational Capital for Industrial Resilience

From an industrial economics perspective, this concentrated wave of party building in the textile industry reveals two deep trends. First, in an environment of slowing export growth and weak domestic demand recovery, companies are strengthening internal cultural identity to reduce management friction costs. Second, leading enterprises are attempting to convert 'party building' into brand assets and supply chain trust endorsements. Erdos Group, through party building with mass organizations, won the 'Inner Mongolia Charity Award,' and 13 grassroots party branches were rated as municipal-level 'Strong Fortress' branches, providing practical bonuses to the company's image and financing ability.

For downstream buyers and foreign trade companies, these dynamics imply that suppliers with well-established party building systems and strong organizational discipline may offer higher delivery punctuality and quality stability. Additionally, companies linking party building with green transformation and technological innovation—such as Dasheng Silk displaying craft capabilities through red silk cultural creations—signal their emphasis on cultural empowerment.

Practical Suggestions

For Buyers - Monitor the frequency and content of suppliers' party building activities: frequent and substantive party building often corresponds to higher management standardization, which can be included as a non-financial indicator in supplier evaluation. - Assess whether companies integrate party building with green transformation: companies like Shenghong, whose 'four combinations' include technological innovation, are more likely to prioritize environmentally friendly processes.

For Foreign Trade Enterprises - Leverage client interest in the cultural connotation of 'Made in China' by transforming corporate party building culture (e.g., red study tours, craftsmanship spirit) into brand story materials to enhance product added value. - Focus on companies where party building is linked to talent cultivation, such as Tongkun's integration of red study tours with team building; such companies have higher employee stability, benefiting long-term order fulfillment.