When homogenized competition becomes a sword hanging over the textile industry, Wujiang's answer is not avoidance but a high-profile industrial promotion conference that turns consensus into a concrete roadmap. On August 6, the Jiangsu Provincial Textile Advantageous Industry Promotion Conference was held in Wujiang, where six local key enterprises including Hengli, Shenghong, and Taihu Snow, along with the National Innovation Center for Advanced Functional Fibers, were all present, signaling a clear direction for the industrial cluster to advance toward high-end, intelligent, and green development.
Event Background
This conference was not a simple industry gathering but a targeted navigation for the textile industry—a sector dominated by private economy—under the backdrop of sustained policy support for high-quality development of private enterprises. The meeting directly addressed the new situation, challenges, and opportunities, clarifying the development paths for high-end, intelligent, and green transformation, and detailing implementation steps. For the silk and textile enterprises that occupy an important part of Wujiang's industrial landscape, this is akin to a "reassurance pill," meaning policy dividends are now transmitting from macro orientation to micro operational levels.
From the statements of participating companies, transformation is no longer a hesitation of "whether to do it," but a race of "how to do it." Zhao Jinguang, general manager of Jiangsu Hengli Chemical Fiber, emphasized that the company will focus on cutting-edge fields of advanced fiber materials, deepen comprehensive digital transformation of smart factories, and promote deep integration of the petrochemical-textile full industry chain with the innovation chain. Tang Junsong, general manager of Jiangsu Shenghong Chemical Fiber New Materials, frankly stated that homogenized competition is intensifying, and the next step will focus on green low-carbon, functional intelligent fibers, and other frontier directions, filling key technical gaps. The statements of these two chemical fiber giants reflect the urgent need for technological barriers and differentiated tracks at the upstream raw material end.
Industrial Impact
For purchasers and downstream brands, the most critical information revealed by this conference is that future fabric supply will become more differentiated. Companies like Hengli and Shenghong are increasing investment in functional intelligent fibers, meaning the supply of differentiated, high-performance fabrics will increase, while competition in conventional commodities will only become more intense. Hu Yufang, chairman of Suzhou Taihu Snow Silk, proposed to promote the deep integration of millennia-old traditional silk reeling techniques with modern functional fiber technology, and to leverage AI technology to empower creative design and flexible production. This statement indicates that silk, a traditional category, will no longer be limited to the high-end gift market but will enter broader apparel and home textile scenarios through technological grafting, thereby changing purchasers' inherent perception of silk as "expensive and low volume."
Notably, digital-intelligent transformation is shifting from slogans to concrete investment directions. From Hengli's smart factory upgrades to Taihu Snow's AI-assisted design and Jingyi Special Fiber's intelligent manufacturing iteration, Wujiang enterprises almost unanimously regard digitalization as the core tool for cost reduction and efficiency enhancement. This implies that future fabric delivery times will be shorter, quality stability will be higher, but simultaneously, higher requirements will be placed on purchasers' digital docking capabilities. Furthermore, Wu Jianhua, chairman of Suzhou Shangjiukai Silk Technology and Culture, proposed to build an independent and controllable high-end silk brand, while Li Jing, deputy general manager of Jiangsu Huajia Silk, emphasized taking a quality-and-efficiency-oriented sustainable development path. These statements all point to the same trend: brand premium and quality barriers will become the moats for enterprises to survive cycles.