The textile industry is undergoing a structural transformation driven not only by market and technology but also by innovations in organizational management. In the recently announced national 'Two Excellences and One Advanced' honors, several individuals and collectives from the textile sector were recognized, revealing key pathways for the industry's shift from scale expansion to high-quality development.
Organizational Integration: Party-building as a Catalyst for Efficiency
Among the honorees, the Party committees of Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian), Jilin Carbon Valley Carbon Fiber, and Changzhou Hualida Garment shared a common trait: deep integration of Party-building with production operations. For instance, Hengli's Party committee, through mechanisms like 'Party member vanguard posts,' completed a 20-million-ton refining and chemical integration project in 19 months, breaking foreign monopolies, while also building the world's largest PTA base and a 1.5-million-ton ethylene project. This extraordinary efficiency is underpinned by an organizational structure where 83.3% of senior executives are Party members and a five-year streak of eliminating 'non-Party member teams.' For textile and chemical fiber enterprises, this signals that organizational management capability is becoming as crucial as production scale.
A similar logic applies to Changzhou Hualida. This established garment company, through its 'ordinary people Party-building,' converted the cohesion of 25,000 employees into production efficiency. Its airbag production line churns out 130,000 finished units daily, and it has shifted from imported fabrics to a full supply chain covering weaving, coating, and sewing. For buyers, this organizational efficiency directly translates into supply chain stability and delivery reliability.
Technological Breakthroughs: From Following to Leading
The technological achievements of award-winning enterprises and individuals reflect the industry's progress in high-value-added segments. The recognition of Jilin Carbon Valley's Party committee marks the entry of domestic carbon fiber into the global first tier. With an annual precursor capacity of 190,000 tons, it is now the world's largest carbon fiber precursor producer. As a strategic emerging industry, the localization of carbon fiber directly reduces costs for downstream sectors like aerospace and wind turbine blades.
Zhang Bo, Chairman of Shandong Weiqiao, was named 'National Outstanding Communist Party Member.' Behind this is Weiqiao's continuous technological investment in both textile and aluminum sectors. In textiles, Weiqiao has achieved full smart production line coverage, reducing labor usage to about 10 workers per 10,000 spindles, significantly lowering labor costs. For foreign trade enterprises, this level of automation means Chinese textile firms can still maintain a cost advantage in overseas order competition.
Mi Xuemei from Zhongshan Xiahushijia Garment, honored as a grassroots Party member, highlighted the 'anxiety of workers in the intelligent wave' and 'skills training,' revealing shifts in the industry's labor structure. As automation spreads, the transition of industrial workers to technical and knowledge roles becomes inevitable—both a challenge and an opportunity for efficiency gains.
Global Layout: How Party-building Supports the Belt and Road Strategy
Changzhou Hualida's case offers a model for Party-building supporting global operations. The group has five factories in Vietnam with 15,000 employees, coordinating domestic and international bases to accelerate global supply chain deployment. This 'headquarters economy' model requires cross-cultural management capabilities, and the organizational discipline and cultural identity fostered by Party-building serve as a stabilizer in overseas teams. Hualida is now targeting '10 billion yuan in sales,' suggesting that Party-building is not a cost but a management asset in global expansion.
Meanwhile, Hengli's 'embedded wastewater treatment' technology in the Changxing Island industrial park achieves COD levels below 15mg/L and full reclaimed water reuse, earning it a national 'green factory' designation. This aligns with global buyers' strict environmental compliance requirements, particularly valuable for textile exporters to European markets.