China's textile machinery industry should rely on independent innovation
to get out of the predicament With the rise of China's textile industry, followed by a significant increase in demand for textile machinery. In the face of such a good market, China's textile machinery industry has shown a good development trend in recent years.
In 2007, the indicators of the textile machinery industry have been increased to a certain extent. According to the National Bureau of Statistics on the industry 936 textile machinery enterprises statistics estimated, the industry-wide product sales revenue of 54.525 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.83%, according to customs statistics, textile machinery imports of 4.908 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 19.74%, textile machinery exports of 1.528 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 23.54%, China's textile machinery market capacity of more than 80 billion yuan. As mentioned above, in 2007, China's textile machinery industry seized the opportunity of the vigorous development of the textile industry, continuously expanded the overall production scale, and greatly improved the level of product technology, process manufacturing, management and scientific and technological team construction.

In addition to the gratifying achievements in the quantity, the textile machinery industry is gradually on par with the level in the development trend of high, fine and cutting-edge. At present, the demand and sales of medium and high-level textile machinery have increased significantly. Take cotton spinning equipment as an example: the sales volume of complete sets of cleaning and carding equipment has exceeded 60%, the annual sales of spinning frames with collective doffing devices have exceeded 1 million spindles, and multi-motor distributed drive roving frames and high-grade combing machines have formed the mainstream of sales. In the pursuit of high efficiency, high yield, high automation at the same time, the demand for personalization and high reliability is getting higher and higher. When domestic equipment is difficult to meet the demand, most of them turn to imports. Take shuttleless looms as an example: the number of imports has reached more than 20,000 units, including nearly 15,000 air-jet looms. As the state and local governments have issued relevant regulations and policies, the requirements for energy conservation and emission reduction of textile machinery have been put on the agenda. The demand for related products of enterprises has increased significantly, such as: the sales of high-temperature and high-pressure airflow dyeing machines have increased by 3 times.
There are two main advantages of China's textile machinery industry. Most of the internationally renowned textile enterprises are in the European Union. At present, the euro appreciates against the yuan, so that the cost of EU equipment to enter China will be greatly increased, which will inhibit EU textile machinery enterprises from entering the Chinese market. At the same time, this promotes the export of China's textiles, which in turn drives the development of China's textile machinery enterprises.
Second, many Chinese textile enterprises have invested in foreign equipment, but it has brought a series of problems: first of all, it is impossible to adapt thousands of enterprises to such new equipment in a short period of time, which not only can not give full play to the advantages of foreign equipment, but also cause huge waste. Therefore, domestic equipment is more suitable for the reality that the quality of personnel in textile enterprises is relatively low. Secondly, the after-sales service of foreign enterprises cannot meet the needs of China's textile enterprises, especially the supply of spare parts is very troublesome. The after-sales service of Chinese products has obvious advantages over foreign products.
Although there has been a certain development, the overall technical level of China's textile machinery industry is low, the independent development and innovation ability of products is weak, and the investment in research and development funds is insufficient. The domestic basic industry is weak, and the basic accessories cannot keep up, which affects the quality and automation level of textile machinery products.
Hitching a ride on the rise of China's textile industry, the textile machinery industry has made great progress. However, with the increase in labor costs, the future of China's textile industry is uncertain. Du Yuzhou, president of the China Textile Industry Association, also said that the textile industry, as a traditional intensive industry, has formed an extensive development model for a long time, as well as the outstanding contradictions and problems associated with the macroeconomy that have accumulated for a long time. In the face of the new situation, about two-thirds of the total number of enterprises have encountered great difficulties. The advantages of China's textile industry are gradually being lost. The Labor Contract Law, which will come into effect this year, will pose new challenges to the low-profit labor-intensive textile industry.
The textile machinery industry also needs to face the embarrassing dilemma of the textile industry, how to continue to go on in today's labor advantage gradually disappearing.

Although China's textile machinery has made some achievements in all aspects, it is still difficult for domestic textile machinery to compete with foreign equipment.
For example, the average unit price of imported air-jet looms is more than 3 times the average unit price of export machines, and the average unit price of imported rapier looms is more than 10 times the average unit price of export machines. The gap proves that although the overall scale of China's textile machinery is not small, the profit margin is very different from that of foreign enterprises.
In 2007, China's textile machinery products imported from abroad amounted to 4.94 billion US dollars, and imported textile machinery accounted for half of the domestic market. China has become an important market for textile machinery companies: Italy's textile machinery exports to China account for 1/5 of Italy's total textile machinery exports, with a total value of 510 million US dollars, and Germany's textile machinery exports to China also account for 1/3 of its total exports, with a total of 1.359 billion US dollars.
In 2007, the market share of domestic companies in China will be less than 60%. The products are mainly concentrated in the middle and low end, and the high-end market is still dominated by Western countries. In some high-end fields, foreign equipment has an absolute advantage, and domestic enterprises are not able to catch up in a short time. For many textile enterprises, some key equipment and key components are not capable of production in China. For example, in the spinning process of some wool spinning enterprises, more than 120 yarns are produced, and the quality of the yarn produced by domestic equipment is very coarse. In particular, the gap between shuttleless looms, air spinning, precision spinning and other processes is more obvious, and foreign countries are basically in a monopoly position.
Foreign equipment generally has a short process flow, a high degree of automation and informatization, therefore, in some processes, the output is large and the production cycle is short. At the same time, due to the high production efficiency, the number of equipment can be reduced and the occupation of the plant can be reduced. Therefore, from the perspective of efficiency, foreign equipment is more suitable for textile enterprises with tight delivery and high factory location and land price. Most of the foreign textile machinery enterprises only focus on a certain process, and make famous brands in this field. However, domestic enterprises and even small enterprises have even engaged in diversified operations, resulting in the lack of their own advantages and characteristics.
Independent innovation is imminent
Affected by the slowdown in the growth of the textile industry and foreign products, the overall transformation of China's textile machinery industry is imperative.
At present, China's textile machinery and equipment industry shows three trends of change: enterprises from the scale expansion of the type to the transformation of the type, the scale of the industry from the new enterprises to the merger and reorganization of enterprises, the characteristics of the industry from to meet domestic demand to expand the export type.
The product level is low, the energy consumption is high, the labor of the products will be further reduced, high efficiency, energy saving, less labor products will become the textile machinery product market, the mainstream textile machinery product market will gradually transfer to the central and western regions, the export of textile machinery products will continue to grow, the main customer groups are the private economy, the private economy and foreign investment enterprises in the competition, product prices are still the elements of competition.
Gao Yong, chairman of the China Textile Machinery and Equipment Industry Association, revealed at the first China Textile Technology and Economic Development High-level Forum: The structural adjustment and upgrading of the textile industry has increased the demand for high-end textile machinery and equipment. Users have higher and higher requirements for the personalization, reliability and stability of the equipment. At present, the textile machinery manufacturing industry has entered the overall strategy of the national revitalization of the equipment manufacturing industry, and the implementation of the special project aims to promote the technological progress and independent innovation of the industry. At the same time, the textile machinery industry will focus on strengthening the introduction, absorption, digestion, re-innovation work and independent innovation in the combination of production, education and research.
For the situation in 2008, Gao Yong denied that the textile industry will enter a period of adjustment and contraction. He believes that China's textile industry as a very complete industrial chain, since 1999, although the industry has entered the adjustment period, but has always been in a stage of rapid development, in a long period of time, China's textile industry still has a strong competitiveness, to adapt to this, the textile machinery industry serving the textile industry this year is still a period of rapid development.
Qiu Jibao, chairman of Feiyue Group, a large sewing machine company in China, expressed his opinion on the threat to the textile machinery industry, saying that these factors are not only pressure but also motivation for Feiyue. If Feiyue still relies on scale, low prices and other ways to compete as in the past, it will be like a "local gun" fighting a "foreign cannon", and it will definitely be a dead end.
In the past, Feiyue was more concerned with how to make products sell more and sell faster, but now it is more concerned with how to make products sell more expensive and sell for a long time. In order to achieve "expensive" and "long-term", it is necessary to carry out continuous innovation under the guidance of the scientific concept of development, and constantly adjust and optimize the product structure with advanced concepts, advanced technology, advanced equipment and advanced management, so as to effectively improve the technical content and added value of products.
Qiu Jibao also said, for example, the traditional household sewing machine only has a simple sewing function, more than 100 pounds of weight is less than 100 yuan, and the weight of the computer household machine independently developed by Feiyue is only 1/10 of the previous one, but the price has reached more than 1,000 US dollars, and exported to developed countries in Europe and the United States, which is the result of independent innovation.
In 2008~2010, with the rapid development of China's textile industry, the demand for textile machinery is increasing, and the development of China's textile machinery industry is facing a good opportunity. It is expected that by 2010, driven by the upgrading of textile machinery, the output value rate of new products in China's textile machinery industry will increase to 50% in 2010, the export volume of textile machinery products will account for more than 30% of the output value in the same period, and the numerical control rate of the whole textile machinery industry will reach more than 10%, among them, the backbone of key enterprises will reach 15% ~ 20%, the key parts of the main textile machinery products, the finishing process capacity index of new special basic parts will reach 1 ~ 1.25. Therefore, the development space of China's textile machinery industry is huge.