How Red Engine Revitalizes Textile Industry: Party-Building as a Core Competitiveness Driver

Over the past two weeks, more than a dozen textile giants—including Shenghong, Weiqiao, Tongkun, Hengli, Dasheng, Red Bean, and Ordos—have simultaneously held intensive events marking the 105th anniversary of the Communist Party of China. From award ceremonies to red-study tours, from choir performances to silk cultural creations, the formats vary but the core is consistent: Party-building is being transformed from a political ritual into a management tool. Industry public data shows this wave reflects a hidden upgrade in organizational capability within the textile sector—Party-building is now systematically embedded into four dimensions: production operations, technological innovation, green transition, and talent development.

Four Integration Models

Shenghong's Party secretary Miao Hangen proposed 'four combinations' linking Party-building with business direction, management systems, workplace culture, and talent reserves. This is not empty rhetoric. Public records show Shenghong has previously tied R&D milestones directly to branch assessments through a 'Party-member pioneer post' mechanism, making Party-building a lever for technology breakthroughs.

Dasheng Group extended the perspective to a century of heritage. On June 27, it simultaneously commemorated the 100th anniversary of the founding of Nantong's first CPC branch within its own mill and released annual breakthrough projects. Chairman Bao Weidong explicitly required branch secretaries to act as 'cultural ambassadors,' fusing Zhang Jian's entrepreneurial spirit, red genes, and craftsmanship into executable cultural management tools. For buyers, this means the supply chain stability of century-old firms like Dasheng is underpinned by deeper organizational resilience.

Ordos Group's data is even more compelling: 13 party committees, 8 general branches, and 92 branches form a dense organizational network, with 1,956 Party members constituting an unbreachable fortress. Thirteen grassroots branches have been rated as 'strong fortress' branches at the municipal level, and the chemical division's innovation team won a provincial-level May Fourth Medal. Party-building driving group-building essentially translates organizational mobilization capacity into grassroots innovation efficiency.

Red-Study Tours and R&D Logic

Tongkun Group chose Zunyi—the turning point of the Long March—for its red-study tour. Chairman Chen Shiliang led 650 Party members in batches to visit the Zunyi Conference Memorial Hall. Tongkun officially aligns its corporate spirit of 'unity, struggle, pragmatism, and innovation' with the Long March spirit. This is not a symbolic analogy. In the polyester filament sector, Tongkun has recently achieved successive breakthroughs in melt-direct spinning differentiated technology, with R&D cycles shortened by over 30% compared to industry averages. The internal logic is that the organizational consensus forged through red-study tours reduces cross-departmental coordination costs, directly accelerating technology decision-making chains.

Hengli Group's red-light-and-shadow creative performance competition showcases another capability: 12 branches reinterpreted classic red films with job-specific insights through original performances. This 'immersive Party-building' is essentially a high-density internal knowledge-sharing and value-alignment exercise. For Hengli, which has expanded from weaving to upstream refining, cross-divisional coordination is extremely challenging. Party-building activities provide a low-cost, high-frequency trust-building scenario across departments.

Implications for Supply Chains and Foreign Trade

Red Bean Group deployed development strategies based on the four connotations of Yan'an Spirit (correct political direction, seeking truth from facts, serving the people wholeheartedly, and self-reliance with hard struggle). Chairman Zhou Haijiang emphasized 'listening to the Party and following the Party' while simultaneously demanding 'self-reliance and hard struggle.' In the current environment where overseas markets face green barriers and compliance reviews, this organizational mobilization capacity helps companies quickly respond to new regulations such as the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), establishing internal execution capabilities in carbon accounting and supply chain traceability.

Dali Silk offers a more direct example: artisans used silk as paper and warp-weft as brushes to create red-themed silk cultural creations. This is both a Party-building activity and a product innovation experiment—converting cultural symbols into high-value-added silk products. For foreign trade companies, this 'Party-building + cultural creation' model is worth noting: in a market where ethical and traceability requirements are tightening, companies with clear organizational cultural narratives are more likely to pass customer factory audits and ESG ratings.

For Sourcing Teams - Include supplier Party-building activity as an informal evaluation metric: companies with strong organizational mobilization tend to have higher delivery reliability and quality consistency. - Prioritize suppliers implementing 'Party-building + R&D' models (e.g., Shenghong, Tongkun), as their R&D response speed is often faster than peers. - For orders from century-old firms (e.g., Dasheng), request specific cases of Party-building-production integration as evidence of cultural management capability.

For Foreign Trade Teams - Add a section in customer audit materials explaining how Party-building aligns with ESG practices, especially for European buyers, highlighting 'organized carbon management' advantages. - Follow Dali Silk's model: use Party-building cultural creations as cultural business cards at B2B exhibitions to enhance brand recognition. - Monitor the red-study outcomes of Tongkun and Hengli; their improved internal coordination efficiency directly translates into differentiated product supply capacity, making them priority candidates for strategic supplier lists.