On July 1, 2025, the national 'Two Excellences and One Advanced' commendation conference announced a list spanning multiple industries, with several individuals and grassroots party organizations from the textile sector being recognized. This is not merely a ceremonial honor but a concentrated review of how textile enterprises have leveraged party-building mechanisms to transition from scale expansion to quality transformation over recent years.
From public information, the textile-related collectives honored cover diverse sub-sectors including chemical fibers, carbon fibers, apparel manufacturing, and textile machinery, with a strong geographic concentration in the Yangtze River Delta and coastal Shandong. This regional clustering itself signals a replicable model where party building and industrial upgrading are deeply intertwined in traditional manufacturing hubs.
Background
Among the honorees, Zhang Bo, Chairman of Shandong Weiqiao Pioneering Group, was named 'National Outstanding Communist Party Member.' The party committees of Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Co., Ltd., Jilin Carbon Valley Carbon Fiber Co., Ltd., Changzhou Hualida Garment Group Co., Ltd., Jiangsu Yueda Textile Group Co., Ltd., and three other textile-related grassroots party organizations received the 'National Advanced Grassroots Party Organization' award.
Notably, these enterprises include not only large state-owned or centrally-administered firms but also small and medium-sized private companies like Zhongshan Xiahu World Garment Co., Ltd. Mi Xuemei, a party branch committee member at Xiahu World, was also named 'National Outstanding Communist Party Member.' Having long worked on the front line, she has driven skill transformation among industrial workers and delivered over 100 theoretical lectures. This demonstrates that the penetration of party building has extended from group headquarters down to the workshop and team levels.
Industry Impact
The integration of party building and business operations is most evident in technological breakthroughs. The party committee of Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) leveraged its 'Silk Road Pioneer' party-building brand to achieve a 20-million-ton/year refining and chemical integration project in 19 months, a world's largest 1.5-million-ton/year ethylene project in 13 months, and the world's largest PTA base at its Changxing Island Industrial Park. Behind these figures lie mechanisms like 'Party Member Pioneer Posts' and 'Party Member Commando Teams' that directly supported project timelines—83.3% of senior executives are party members, and party members or activists contributed 75% of patent inventions among 208 adopted 'golden ideas' over the past three years.
In the strategic emerging sector of carbon fiber, the party committee of Jilin Carbon Valley Carbon Fiber Co., Ltd. embedded party building into the full process of independent innovation, achieving an annual precursor capacity of 190,000 tons, making it the world's largest producer of carbon fiber precursor. This validates an industry insight: when organizational mobilization aligns with R&D cycles, party building can act as an accelerator for technological catch-up.
For traditional garment manufacturers, the driving force of party building is more evident in supply chain extension and global expansion. The party committee of Changzhou Hualida Garment Group adopted 'ordinary people's party building' as its core approach. Its airbag production line now produces 130,000 units daily, and the company has moved from using imported fabrics to an integrated chain covering weaving, coating, sewing, and folding. Meanwhile, Hualida has established five factories in Vietnam with 15,000 overseas employees, extending its 'headquarters economy plus Belt and Road' dual-market strategy through the organizational coordination enabled by party building.