In the face of new development pattern and new challenges, the positioning of chemical fiber industry is changing constantly. In April this year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the National Development and Reform Commission jointly issued the Guidelines on the High-quality Development of the Chemical Fiber Industry, pointing out that the chemical fiber industry is the core support for the stable development and continuous innovation of the textile industry chain, an industry with international competitive advantages, and an important part of the new materials industry.

Under the new development situation, how should the chemical fiber industry strengthen the advantages, strengthen the weaknesses? First, we will deepen supply-side structural reform and thoroughly implement the strategy of expanding varieties, improving quality and creating brands. Second, we need to speed up smart and green transformation to consolidate and enhance our international competitiveness. Third, we will promote collaborative innovation and mutual enabling between chemical fibers and natural fibers, strengthen the development of new technologies and products, and promote sound and organic interaction between chemical fiber and cotton chains to support each other, so as to improve the resilience and safety of industrial and supply chains. Fourth, we need to strengthen international cooperation in industry and trade and build a new pattern of development in which both domestic and international cycles reinforce each other.

The new positioning will make high-quality development more resilient

At present, the global economic and industrial development pattern has undergone profound changes. The Chinese chemical fiber industry is facing many development pressures and challenges, such as rising crude oil price, low downstream demand, and declining enterprise efficiency. Under this background, how should the chemical fiber industry promote high-quality development?

Therefore, the chemical fiber industry should explore and innovate, adjust the structure, develop high-tech fiber, optimize the industrial system, combine the upstream and downstream industrial chain, and gradually realize the goal of high-end, information, intelligent and green development, and achieve high-quality development.

For the high-quality development of the chemical fiber industry, first, we should focus on improving the toughness and safety of the industrial chain and supply chain. We need to give greater priority to strengthening the resilience and competitiveness of the industrial chain, and strive to build an independent, controllable, safe and reliable industrial chain and supply chain. In particular, the key to the stable development of the industry needs to strengthen the weak links, improve the ability of independent intellectual property rights and replacement, and ensure the stability and smooth flow of industrial chain and supply chain.

Second, we will focus on building a new development pattern for the industry. It is necessary to improve the added value and brand influence of Chinese fiber products through high quality development, and enhance the position of global value chain of Chinese chemical fiber industry. We need to work at both ends of the supply and demand spectrum to expand effective demand and form a strong domestic market, while promoting transformation and upgrading of production and consolidating and enhancing industrial competitiveness.

Third, we will promote the green, circular and low-carbon development of the industry. It is necessary to properly handle the relationship between industrial development and carbon reduction, promote the work of carbon peak in a coordinated and orderly way, study and formulate a "dual-carbon" strategic roadmap for the chemical fiber industry, clarify the implementation path of carbon reduction in the industry, and promote the formation of green and low-carbon production and lifestyle.

Look for new growth points and new materials to enable new track

Under the new development trend, where is the new track of chemical fiber industry?

Fiber industry has entered a new track, raw materials, polymerization, processing, forming process has been given the new concept of science and technology, environmental protection, intelligent, characterized by intelligent, super performance, green, can play a high permeability to the traditional industrial cluster, subversive, transformative improvement effect of the new generation of fiber will be the research direction.

In the future, domestic carbon fiber will have a broad application prospect in high value-added fields such as aerospace, pressure vessels and carbon/carbon composite materials. Enterprises with independent intellectual property rights and continuous innovation ability will have a head start in the future competition.

Miao Yunliang, chairman of Jiangsu Tianbird High-tech Co., LTD., said that carbon fiber preforms can be divided into two categories by structure: planar fabric preforms and three-dimensional fabric preforms. Among them, the three-dimensional fabric prefabricated can be divided into 2.5D weaving, three-dimensional weaving, suture, puncture, acupuncture, etc., and the needled carbon fiber prefabricated is widely used.

Strengthen international cooperation and usher in a new green era

Although the global economic recovery has been slower than expected, the international situation has become more uncertain and the business environment has become more difficult, all the experts at the conference agreed that we still live in a globalized and interconnected world where cooperation is indispensable.

Frederic Van Houtevu, director general of the European Synthetic Fibre Association, said that despite various uncertainties, the global synthetic fibre industry, particularly in Asia, has recovered quickly and production continues to grow. As for the general development trend of the industry in the future, he believes that, first, the continuous promotion of green development in production and consumption, such as the development of clean production technology and sustainable products; Second, accelerate the transition to a new type of economy, promote digitalization, automation and intelligence, and make industries more adaptable; Third, maintain high quality, professional, efficient management structure and other competitive advantages; Fourth, continuous innovation in products, production technology, raw materials and other aspects; Fifth, extensive international cooperation on supply chain, textile waste recycling, Marine microplastics, biodegradation, unified standards and other issues to achieve a win-win situation for the global textile and chemical fiber industry.

At present, reducing carbon emissions is the consensus of the global community. More than 100 countries have put forward or will put forward the goal of achieving carbon peak and carbon neutrality. Liu Yuan, Director of Market and Innovation Development Department of Product Certification Department of China Quality Certification Center, believes that in the context of global green development, green trade barriers will increase in the future, such as the upcoming EU carbon tariff, will have an impact on Chinese enterprises' exports. The proposal of China's "double carbon" goal will lead the advanced manufacturing industry represented by the new chemical fiber materials to undergo revolutionary changes. In the context of carbon neutrality, the whole chemical fiber industry should focus on six technical routes: source reduction, search for alternative energy, improvement of process, energy saving and efficiency improvement, recycling and technical carbon sequestration.

Hai'an County Qinfeng Chemical Fiber Co., Ltd. specializes in production and sales：polypropylene staple fiber, Polyester Staple Fiber, functional polypropylene short fiber, functional polyester staple fiber, hydrophilic polyester staple fiber,  polypropylene, PP staple fiber, polyester staple fiber.