The textile industry delivered an impressive performance in the latest national commendation. On July 1, the celebration of the 105th anniversary of the Communist Party of China honored national outstanding individuals and advanced grassroots Party organizations. The textile sector saw one national outstanding Communist Party member, one national outstanding Party worker, and seven advanced grassroots Party organizations selected. This list reflects the industry's deep transformation in technological breakthroughs, industrial upgrading, and global layout.
Industry Impact
The awardees are microcosms of industry transformation. Zhang Bo, Chairman of Shandong Weiqiao Pioneering Group, was named a national outstanding Communist Party member. His company, one of the world's largest cotton textile enterprises, has heavily invested in intelligent spinning and green manufacturing, directly driving equipment upgrades upstream. Mi Xuemei from Zhongshan Xiahushijia Garment rose from frontline customer service to Party backbone, delivering over 100 lectures focusing on industrial worker skill transitions—a vivid footnote of the textile industry's shift from labor-intensive to technology-intensive models.
Among advanced grassroots Party organizations, the Party Committee of Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Co., Ltd. has the strongest industrial impact. The team completed a 20 million ton/year refining-integration project in 19 months at the Changxing Island Industrial Park, built the world's largest 1.5 million ton/year ethylene project in 13 months, and simultaneously created the world's largest PTA base. These capacities directly reduce the industry's dependence on imported upstream raw materials and reshape the global polyester supply chain. Additionally, its pioneering "embedded wastewater treatment" technology stabilizes COD below 15 mg/L and achieves full reclaimed water reuse, setting a replicable technical benchmark for green manufacturing.
The recognition of the Party Committee of Changzhou Hualida Garment Group highlights the path of traditional apparel enterprises transitioning to high-end manufacturing. The group's airbag production line produces 130,000 finished products daily, evolving from reliance on imported fabrics to an integrated chain covering weaving, coating, and sewing. Its compact, lightweight airbag products are rapidly gaining traction in the domestic new energy vehicle market, signaling deep coupling between textiles and the automotive industry. More notably, Hualida has responded to the Belt and Road Initiative for a decade, establishing five factories in Vietnam with 15,000 employees. Its domestic-international collaborative global layout offers a practical model for textile trading firms pursuing "headquarters economy plus overseas manufacturing."
The selection of the Party Committee of Jilin Carbon Valley Carbon Fiber Co., Ltd. marks carbon fiber's entry into national strategic focus. The company now has an annual raw fiber capacity of 190,000 tons, making it the world's largest raw fiber producer. With surging demand in aerospace, wind turbine blades, and pressure vessels, Jilin Carbon Valley's scale breakthrough directly lowers domestic carbon fiber costs and accelerates import substitution in downstream composite applications.
The Party Committee of Suzhou Inovance Technology Co., Ltd. represents the "invisible champion" of textile equipment automation. As a leader in industrial automation control, 62% of its Party members hold master's degrees, and 91% are under 40. This young, highly educated Party structure mirrors the talent profile required for the textile industry's intelligent transformation. Inovance's "Red Engineer" system deeply integrates technology R&D with Party building, providing an organizational paradigm for "Party building empowering R&D."