Rising costs, fragmented orders, and escalating trade barriers are pushing every textile company in 2025 to search for new certainties. A telling signal emerged ahead of the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China: over a dozen industry giants, including Shenghong, Weiqiao, Erdos, Dasheng, Hongdou, and Hengli, have elevated Party-building activities to unprecedented depth and breadth. This is no longer about simply hanging a plaque or reading documents. Party-building is being genuinely embedded into corporate management, becoming an 'invisible engine' to navigate cyclical volatility.
From Political Task to Management Tool: How Party-Building Cuts Costs
At Shenghong's commendation conference, Party secretary Miao Hangen explicitly linked Party-building to four dimensions: business direction, management system optimization, work style, and talent cultivation. This is not empty rhetoric. In practice, Party member pioneer posts at the grassroots level have helped reduce production energy consumption by about 3%, directly converting into profit margins amid volatile chemical fiber raw material prices.
Erdos Group's practices are even more compelling. Its 13 Party committees, 8 general branches, and 92 branches cover 1,956 members, forming a 'red organizational network.' The innovation team at its PVC company's No. 2 factory, which cracked an energy efficiency bottleneck in PVC polymerization, won the Inner Mongolia Youth May Fourth Medal. All core team members are Party members. Here, Party-building is directly quantified into technological breakthroughs and cost savings.
Heritage and Breakthrough at a Century-Old Mill: From Zhang Jian to Modern Factory
Dasheng Group's Party-building coincides with the 100th anniversary of the Nantong Independent Party Branch founded at its mill. Founded by Zhang Jian, this century-old spinning mill now faces dual pressures: outdated equipment and a shrinking young workforce. Party secretary Bao Weidong urged Party cadres to act as 'cultural ambassadors,' embedding the spirit of 'seeking truth, innovation, dedication, and progress.'
This means Party-building is becoming a tool to solve the intergenerational transfer problem. Through the 'Standing at Posts, Secretaries Lead' project, Dasheng assigns critical technical tasks—such as automated spinning frame retrofits—directly to Party branches. Completion is tied to year-end performance. This model helped the group reduce labor per 10,000 spindles from 60 to 45 workers, a 25% drop.
Yan'an Spirit and Long March Spirit: Ideological Weapons Against 'Involution'
Hongdou Group Party secretary Zhou Haijiang directly translated the four dimensions of the Yan'an spirit—correct political direction, seeking truth from facts, serving the people wholeheartedly, and self-reliance and hard struggle—into corporate development standards. In practice, 'self-reliance' means relying on domestic factory technical upgrades to absorb costs when Southeast Asian orders fail to return, rather than simply cutting prices.
Tongkun Group's red study tour chose Zunyi. Chairman Chen Shiliang led over 650 Party members to retrace the Long March. Tongkun's spirit—'unity, struggle, pragmatism, innovation'—combined with the Long March spirit, translates into real-world results: in Q1 2025, amid volatile PTA prices, Tongkun reduced raw material inventory turnover days by two, freeing up capital through internal supply chain coordination from refining to polyester to spinning.
Soft Power Competition Behind Cultural Performances
Weiqiao Venture Group's chorus gala drew over 2,000 employees. Seemingly a cultural event, it was a massive team-building exercise. Party secretary Zhang Hongxia noted afterward that the event not only united hearts but also reduced defect rates caused by worker mood swings. Industry data shows Weiqiao's cotton yarn Grade A product rate improved by 0.8 percentage points in H1 2025, partly attributed to enhanced employee belonging.
Hengli Group's red light-and-shadow creative performance competition was even more innovative. Twelve Party branches created original performances based on red classic films, integrating job insights. This format broke the monotony of traditional training, embedding safety and quality control points into storylines, achieving far higher engagement than conventional methods. Party secretary Lu Kun stated the model will be included in the 2026 training plan.