From late June to early July 2025, China's textile industry witnessed a concentrated wave of party-building activities. Over a dozen leading enterprises including Shenghong Holding Group, Weiqiao Pioneering Group, Tongkun Group, Hengli Group, Ordos Group, Dasheng Group, Hodo Group, Dali Silk, Anhui Huamao, and Yuedai Textile held various events to celebrate the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. Such industry-wide synchronized actions have been rare in recent years.
Background
Public information shows these activities covered commendation meetings, red study tours, themed party lectures, choir gala evenings, red light-shadow creative performance competitions, and on-site education. Shenghong Party Secretary Miao Hangen proposed a 'four combinations' path linking party building with business, management optimization, work style construction, and talent cultivation. Tongkun sent over 650 party members to Zunyi, Guizhou, aligning the Long March spirit with corporate spirit. Hengli held a creative performance competition at its Suzhou industrial park involving 12 party branches. Notably, Dasheng's event had historical depth—2025 marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Nantong Independent Party Branch at Dasheng Cotton Mill. The mill integrated party-building achievements with corporate culture, proposing a four-dimensional cultural identity of 'Zhang Jian entrepreneurship, red genes, craftsmanship, and patriotism.' This historical narrative has clear practical implications: when the industry faces demand contraction and cost pressures, organizational identity and cultural cohesion become stabilizing anchors.
Industry Impact
The most notable trend is the shift of party building from ritual to productivity. Hodo Group systematically deployed enterprise development paths based on the four dimensions of Yan'an Spirit, emphasizing self-reliance and hard work in current challenging tasks. Ordos Group embedded a 'four-first-step' demonstration model into management, with a network of 13 party committees, 8 general branches, and 92 branches explicitly viewed as 'impregnable fortresses.' From an industry perspective, this organizational building is transforming from political requirement into management tool. For textile enterprises, core challenges include volatile foreign trade orders, high raw material prices, rising labor costs, and green transformation pressure. In these areas, party building is providing practical support. For example, Shenghong combines party building with talent cultivation to build a talent pipeline; Anhui Huamao emphasizes a 'virtue-first' talent orientation; Yuedai Textile strengthens team execution through red on-site education. These measures essentially solve the 'people' problem—retaining core employees, stimulating frontline innovation, and ensuring production stability during downturns, with organizational building being a cost-effective and sustainable option.
Another angle is the linkage effect across regional industrial belts. Participating enterprises cover Jiangsu (Shenghong, Hengli, Dasheng, Hodo), Shandong (Weiqiao), Zhejiang (Tongkun, Dali), Inner Mongolia (Ordos), and Anhui (Huamao). Despite differences in form, the core message is unified: emphasizing the unity of 'listening to the Party and following the Party' with 'serving the country through industry.' This nationwide industry consensus can facilitate more efficient transmission mechanisms in policy communication, standard coordination, and supply chain collaboration.