Textile Industry Party Building Role Models Announced: From Weiqiao to Hengli, Organizational Power Behind Industrial Upgrading

Textile Industry Party Building Role Models Announced: From Weiqiao to Hengli, Organizational Power Behind Industrial Upgrading

The national 'Two Excellences and One Advanced' commendation list was recently released, with two individuals and eight grassroots party organizations from the textile sector honored. Zhang Bo, chairman of Shandong Weiqiao Entrepreneurship Group, was named a national outstanding Communist Party member, while party committees of Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Co., Ltd. and Jilin Carbon Valley Carbon Fiber Co., Ltd. received advanced grassroots party organization titles. This list not only recognizes exemplary figures but also reflects collective breakthroughs in smart manufacturing, green transformation, and supply chain autonomy within the textile industry.

Organizational Power Driving Industrial Upgrading

At the enterprise level, the deep integration of party building and production operations has yielded significant results. The party committee of Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Co., Ltd., guided by the 'Silk Road Pioneer' party building brand, set a record by completing a 20 million-ton-per-year refining and chemical integration project in 19 months at the Changxing Island Industrial Park, simultaneously building the world's largest PTA base and a 1.5 million-ton-per-year ethylene project, substantially reducing import dependence. The company pioneered 'embedded wastewater treatment' technology, maintaining effluent COD below 15mg/L and achieving full reclaimed water reuse, earning recognition as a national 'green factory'. This model of using organizational construction to drive technological breakthroughs provides a replicable benchmark for the petrochemical industry.

The party committee of Jilin Carbon Valley Carbon Fiber Co., Ltd. has integrated party building into the entire process of independent innovation. The company's precursor fiber capacity has reached 190,000 tons, making it the world's largest carbon fiber precursor producer, helping domestic carbon fiber enter the global first tier. This demonstrates that in strategic emerging industries, the combat effectiveness of party organizations directly translates into technological breakthroughs and market competitiveness.

A Model for Worker Transformation in the Smart Era

Mi Xuemei, from Zhongshan Xiashi World Home Textile Co., Ltd., is the only frontline textile worker to receive the national outstanding Communist Party member award this time. Facing the impact of smart waves on traditional jobs, she proactively organized skill training and hands-on guidance, helping colleagues transition from ordinary workers to technical and knowledge-based talent. As a National People's Congress deputy, she has also conducted over 100 theoretical lectures, conveying policy spirit to factory floors. Mi's case highlights a key proposition during industry transformation: how to ensure workers are not marginalized but become participants and beneficiaries of technological upgrades.

New Globalization Path for Traditional Apparel Enterprises

The inclusion of the party committee of Changzhou Hualida Garment Group Co., Ltd. exemplifies a typical path for traditional textile enterprises to achieve leapfrog development through technological innovation and global expansion. Hualida's airbag production line turns out 130,000 finished products daily, with products now targeting the domestic new energy vehicle market through miniaturization and lightweight design. The company has also responded to the Belt and Road Initiative by establishing five factories in Vietnam, employing 15,000 workers, forming a global supply chain with domestic and overseas bases collaborating closely. Hualida is now aiming for a 'billion sales' target, and its 'ordinary people party building' model emphasizes enhancing the sense of gain among its 25,000 employees, offering new ideas for organizational management in labor-intensive industries.

New Characteristics of High-Education, Young Party Organizations

Data from the party committee of Suzhou Huichuan Technology Co., Ltd. shows that 62% of its party members hold master's degrees, 95% have bachelor's degrees or above, and 91% are under 40, displaying typical 'high-education' and 'young' characteristics. Through a 'red engineer' training system, the committee guides party members to take the lead in industrial automation control, contributing to the autonomous controllability of the national industrial system. This trend indicates that party organizations in the textile and related supply chains are shifting from traditional 'production-oriented' to 'innovation-oriented', with changes in talent structure reshaping the connotation of party building work.

Implications for Buyers and Foreign Trade Companies

These benchmark cases send a clear signal to industry participants: future supply chain competition will not only be about price and efficiency but also about organizational resilience and innovation capability. Buyers selecting suppliers should focus on investments in green production, technological autonomy, and employee development, as these often correlate positively with product quality and delivery stability. Foreign trade companies should learn from the experiences of Hengli and Hualida by building overseas factories and localizing operations to construct more resilient global supply chains.

For Buyers - Prioritize suppliers with verifiable investments in green manufacturing (e.g., water reuse, low-carbon processes) and smart capabilities (e.g., automated lines, digital management), as these directly indicate long-term supply stability. - Evaluate supplier measures in employee training and skill upgrading, especially in fast-evolving categories like carbon fiber and industrial automation equipment, which affect product consistency and innovation capacity.

For Foreign Trade Companies - Adopt the 'party member commando team' model from Hengli Petrochemical to set up cross-cultural teams in overseas factories, localizing advanced management and technical standards while leveraging party building experience in employee care to reduce overseas labor risks. - Follow Hualida's Belt and Road strategy by establishing capacity backups in Southeast Asia while retaining R&D and high-end manufacturing advantages at domestic headquarters, forming complementary global supply chains.