Chemical fiber industry: to enhance the layout of the internationalization of innovation

The highest and most influential global meeting of chemical fiber industry — the twenty-second China International Chemical fiber conference was held in Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, china. From 20 countries and regions of the textile and chemical fiber industry experts, scholars and entrepreneurs, nearly 600 representatives to jointly explore the development trend of the globalization of the industry.

At present, the global chemical industry is still in depth adjustment period, rapid promotion in a new round of technological revolution and the new consumption concept, function and green, differentiation, flexibility has become a new trend in the development of chemical fiber industry. The field of high performance fiber fiber industry will compete for the commanding heights of science and technology globalization; Southeast Asia and South Asia and the developing countries began to actively develop the conventional chemical fiber production capacity. “In this context, the development of chemical fiber industry in various countries and regions are not isolated, the linkage of industrial growth and development, the global chemical fiber industry has a common interest and development aspirations.” China Textile Industry Association vice president Yang Jizhao said, innovation, harmony, green, sharing is the theme of the development of the global chemical industry, a variety of resources sharing, seek common development is an important measure for structural adjustment of the global chemical industry to deal with.
Data show that in 2015 China’s chemical fiber production was 48 million 310 thousand tons, accounting for 70% of the global proportion, in the global chemical fiber industry chain in a pivotal position. Continued to adjust the depth, facing a critical period of an important turning point in the new global fiber industry, the development of China’s chemical fiber industry has entered a new norm, has entered a period of re balance supply and demand, the stock capacity optimal period of moderate development period of adjustment and quality increment of three superimposed phase”. Under the new normal, there are still some outstanding problems in the development of the industry. For example, the conventional chemical structural surplus production capacity, enterprise operation quality and efficiency is larger, the proportion of high value-added products is low; the industry chain development is not balanced, the raw material does not match the problem has not been fundamentally resolved.

However, we must also see that China’s chemical fiber industry has obvious competitive advantage in the global industrial chain. On the one hand, is expected to 10 years of total global fiber processing will remain at an average annual rate of about 3% growth in the next 5 years, incremental mainly from chemical fiber; on the other hand, fiber applications are constantly expanding into transportation, new energy, aerospace and other industries, chemical fiber broad market space; at the same time, the implementation of The Belt and Road construction the international cooperation, actively carry out the production capacity, will be for the internationalization of China’s chemical fiber industry layout, innovation and marketing system upgrade, to provide important support.
Yang Jizhao believes that China’s chemical industry needs to be more closely combined with the development trend of the market in the future, with the upgrading of the industrial development, China’s chemical fiber industry “going out” is no longer limited to raw materials and cost, the design and development ability has gradually become an important motivation to seek overseas high-end partners.” Yang Jizhao said.
“Actively grasp the trend of demand growth and consumption upgrade, the use of a new round of technological and industrial changes in strategic opportunities, China’s chemical fiber industry to speed up the high-end forward.” China Textile Industry Association vice president Gao Yong said, “13th Five-Year” period, in the adjustment of output growth rate at the same time, the chemical fiber industry should focus on high performance fiber and composite materials, the difference and function of fiber and bio based chemical fiber, especially in chemical fiber industry, the industry with the field of fiber will be the “13th Five-Year” period an important point of growth.

President of Chinese chemical fiber industry association Duan Xiaoping told reporters, “Economic Daily”, China’s chemical fiber in the field of conventional high performance and the difference has a leading position in the world, it must carry the banner of development, continue to increase product development and investment in basic research and development efforts to promote and enhance the global fiber industry.
As the source of the textile industry, chemical fiber industry’s technological progress, the development of new materials, the entire textile industry will have a superimposed effect, to the industry has brought tremendous room for development. “13th Five-Year” period, the chemical industry will actively implement the “2025″ China manufacturing, in order to improve the quality and efficiency of development as the center, to promote the supply side structural reform as the main line, in order to increase the variety, quality, brand “products” strategy as the focus, to enhance industrial innovation, optimize the industrial structure, promote the intelligent manufacturing and green manufacturing, the formation and development of new energy.

According to reports, the chemical fiber industry will give full play to the role of industrial technology innovation strategic alliance, with universities and research institutes to establish advantages of leading enterprises as the main body, with the integration of technology innovation system and industrial innovation research platform, promote the upstream and downstream industry chain integration development. And strive to improve the general fiber variety of modified technology and the development of new products, to speed up the high performance fiber and composite materials with high added value, engineering technology of key technology and equipment of low cost manufacturing; overcome the general fiber, flexible and integrated manufacturing technology; to substitute oil resource of bio based raw materials and green fiber processing technology and equipment, to expand the application of bio based fiber.

“The launch of technological innovation engine, is the priority among priorities” in 13th Five-Year the development of chemical fiber industry. Chinese chemical fiber industry is still not going to France, Italy’s fashion brand road, we must take the road of Germany, Japan’s science and technology brands.” Xiaoping said, the main goal of science and technology development in 2020 the chemical industry, chemical fiber differentiation rate increased from the current 58% to 65%, high performance fiber production capacity reached 260 thousand tons, bio based fiber production capacity reached 900 thousand tons. At the same time, with a number of independent intellectual property rights of the core technology, large and medium-sized enterprise R & D expenditures accounted for the main business income ratio of more than 1.2%, the proportion of new product output value increased to more than 28%.

At present, large and medium-sized chemical fiber enterprises R & D expenditures accounted for the main business income ratio of 1%. In the communications industry, HUAWEI this figure is 15%, the future will also be raised to 20% to 30%. “The future of chemical fiber enterprises in which direction to go, and ultimately by the technology and R & D investment decisions.” Xiaoping said.