In the past 40 years of reform and opening up, China's textile machinery trade has seized the opportunity of participating in the global textile machinery production and trade division. Under the framework of global economic integration and trade liberalization, and relying on endogenous technological progress, it has continuously improved product competitiveness and The added value of export commodities will gradually move towards the high end of the global textile machinery trade value chain.

Forty years in the long river of mankind, it is only a drop in the sea. But in the history of China's and even global trade, over the past 40 years, the world has witnessed a shift from the largest developing country on the edge of the global trade value chain to major players in international trade and system builders. Among them, China's textile machinery trade has seized the opportunity to participate in the global textile machinery production and trade division through reform and opening up. Under the framework of global economic integration and trade liberalization, relying on endogenous technological progress to continuously enhance product competition. The added value of force and export commodities, and gradually move towards the high end of the global textile machinery trade value chain.

Three stages from imitation to innovation

From the early days of reform and opening up to 2000, it can be said that it is the construction and development period of China's textile machinery exports. In the 1980s, with the reform and opening up and the reform of the foreign trade system, the textile system established the textile machinery and technology import and export company in the industry. Some provinces, cities and regions have foreign trade windows, and some enterprises have the right to export independently. The number of textile machinery exports has increased year by year.

In the early 1990s, China's textile machinery and equipment industry, through scientific and technological research, the introduction of digestion and absorption technology and independent development, so that the level and quality of textile machinery and equipment products have greatly improved. China's textile machinery enterprises began to explore overseas markets, and cotton spinning machines such as flower cleaning machines, carding machines, spinning frames and roving frames began to enter foreign markets. At this time, 30% of the textile machinery products produced and sold by China's textile machinery industry have reached the international level in the 1980s, and the gap with the international level has gradually narrowed. During the period from 1996 to 2000, China's textile machinery products continued to open up new overseas markets, taking advantage of the international bidding of the Syrian 240,000 spindle cotton spinning equipment project as an opportunity to expand the export markets of Southeast Asia and Africa, while opening up Egypt and Mexico. New regions such as Peru have laid the foundation for expanding textile machinery exports.

Entering this century, China's textile machinery exports have entered a stage of rapid development. Between 2001 and 2005, despite the new development of China's textile machinery manufacturing technology and equipment, China's textile machinery exports have been hovering around 500 million US dollars, which does not match China's rapidly developing textile industry. In 2006, China's textile machinery exports exceeded the US$1 billion mark for the first time, reaching US$1.237 billion. In 2007, it continued to grow, surpassing US$1.5 billion. In 2008, despite the global financial crisis, the impact on exports was not obvious. The annual export reached 1.567 billion US dollars; the impact of the financial crisis on textile machinery exports was mainly reflected in 2009, and exports fell back to 1.21 billion US dollars. During this period, the rapid improvement of the manufacturing level of knitting and printing and dyeing equipment in China greatly enriched the category of textile machinery export products, and also doubled the export value of textile machinery in five years. This is the history of China's textile machinery exports. The fastest growth and the five years of export varieties.

Since the beginning of 2011, China's textile machinery exports have entered an adjustment period, and it has become the main tone. During the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period, driven by scientific and technological progress, the domestic market share remained above 70%, and the export value increased from 2.245 billion US dollars in 2011 to 3.089 billion US dollars in 2015, with an average annual growth rate of 8.3%. Since the "13th Five-Year Plan", China's textile machinery industry has continued to adjust its product mix while China's textile industry has slowed down its growth rate and domestic demand market demand has declined. Enterprises have been striving to develop new products and actively explore overseas markets. Good export performance has enabled the industry to maintain steady growth.

Internal and external factors promote high-speed export growth

Throughout the 40 years of reform and opening up, the export volume of China's textile machinery products has shown a high-speed growth trend. In addition to the external factors such as the open international textile machine market environment and good growth opportunities, China's textile machinery enterprises have been hard-working and have made continuous breakthroughs in the level of equipment technology. The combination of internal and external factors has enabled high-speed growth.

The transfer of the global textile industry to Asia has provided tremendous market opportunities for China's textile machinery exports. Governments such as India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh have supported the development of the textile industry by increasing investment, introducing preferential policies, and lowering loan interest rates, making these countries' demand for textile machinery and equipment very strong. Some excellent domestic textile enterprises have implemented the “going out” strategy, and setting up processing factories overseas has also effectively promoted the export of textile machinery. Under the premise of stabilizing the Southeast Asian market, China's textile machinery equipment has gradually opened the market door of some countries in Africa and the Americas, and the territory of China's textile machinery exports is also expanding.

In fact, apart from external factors, the main reason for the high growth of textile machinery exports is that China's equipment products have strong competitive strength, and the categories of export products have also made great breakthroughs. The degree of mechatronics of complete sets of equipment is constantly improving, and it has an advantage in cost performance compared with foreign products of the same grade. In particular, during the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” period, China’s chemical fiber equipment development has advanced by leaps and bounds. China’s textile machinery enterprises independently developed and produced 200,000 tons of complete sets of polyester equipment and 50 tons of daily spinning equipment. The tons of 200 tons of polyester staple fiber complete sets of equipment have been well received by the market. In Egypt, Indonesia and other countries, there are foreign aid projects for chemical fiber equipment in China. In China, the equipment with weak foundations in the past has been significantly improved due to the investment of internationally renowned enterprises. At the same time, the internationalization supporting capacity of China's textile machinery products has also been continuously enhanced. The auxiliary equipment and spare parts for domestic production are not only exported to foreign textile enterprises, but also some internationally renowned textile machinery manufacturers also purchase spare parts for China.

With the year-on-year growth of China's textile machinery export volume, the marketing network of China's textile machinery products is gradually improving. Many textile machinery enterprises have set up pre-sales and after-sales service institutions in major overseas sales markets, and send specialized technicians to station sales. Point, the engineer conducts regular patrol services to solve problems encountered in the operation of the equipment for the enterprise. These timely and in-place after-sales services not only won the trust of the users, but also laid a good foundation for the expansion of the local textile machinery market. "At the beginning of the reform and opening up, the procedures for applying for a passport are complicated, and it takes at least three months to get it. Now, many countries are visas for landing, as long as they have a phone call or WeChat contact, they will arrive the next day. This is China's spinning. The efficiency of after-sales service of machine companies has brought about a qualitative leap. In recent years, with the further deepening of foreign cooperation and exchanges, the technical services of China's textile machinery have generally developed rapidly, and even better than foreign-funded enterprises in terms of service." Wang Shutian, president of the China Textile Machinery Association, said.

Keep up with the pace of upgrading

In the past 40 years of reform and opening up, despite the outstanding achievements in the export of China's textile machinery products, at the same time of rapid development, China's textile machinery exports still face many problems.

One of the reasons that affect the export of China's textile machinery is the export price. The problem of low export prices has plagued China's textile machinery enterprises for many years. After all efforts, the situation has been somewhat improved, but it has not changed completely. The price advantage is undoubtedly the competitiveness of China's textile machinery products in the international market, but blindly through the price cuts to fight for the market, ultimately the textile machinery companies' profits are getting thinner and thinner.

Another important factor affecting the export of China's textile machinery is that China's textile machinery enterprises have insufficient technological innovation capabilities, lack of product technology with independent intellectual property rights, long product renewal cycle, and cannot respond quickly to market demand. From the perspective of investment, China's textile machinery enterprises invest less in research and development than foreign companies. The investment of foreign companies in research and development accounts for 8% to 12% of sales, while the total R&D investment in China's textile machinery industry only accounts for sales. 1% of the amount.

In addition, China's textile machinery independent investment brand construction investment is insufficient, overseas publicity is not enough, brand effect is hollow, and domestic export enterprises are disorderly competition. The prominent problems in brand building also seriously affect China's textile machinery exports.

To a certain extent, these problems have affected the process of China's textile machinery export from a big country to a strong country, and will continue to affect China's textile machinery to occupy and occupy overseas markets for some time to come. Wang Shutian said in an interview: "Next, China's textile machinery exports will further increase in the domestic and international market sales. For textile machinery enterprises, exports are increasingly becoming an effective way to expand the market. But currently From the point of view, domestic textile equipment can not keep up with the pace of upgrading the textile industry, there is still a lot of room for development. Textile machinery enterprises must continue to work hard in the development of the international market. Domestic textile machinery enterprises should focus on the research and development of products. To win market position and voice with quality and characteristics."

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