Sun Ruizhe: Building high-end platform incubation technology

“China does not lack a practical technology exchange platform that promotes productivity enhancement in the general sense. What is lacking is the platform for high-level academic exchanges.” Speaking of the upcoming 2012 China Textile Academic Conference to be held in late October, Sun Ruizhe hopes to create such a high end. The academic exchange platform gathers and transmits industry-leading scientific and technological information, promotes the development of talents in the industry, and promotes the transformation of China's textile industry from big to strong.

According to Sun Ruizhe, the severe external environment makes scientific and technological innovation increasingly a top priority for the development of textile companies. The convening of this academic annual meeting is at a time when the entire industry is facing severe challenges. The industry and enterprises are full of new expectations for the future development.

At the news conference of the 2012 China Textile Academic Conference held recently, Sun Ruizhe talked about the three major crises experienced by China's textile industry from the Asian financial crisis in 1998. “Since the Asian financial crisis in 1997, the industry’s exports have been declining and companies’ losses have been severe. It has become the consensus of everyone to promote technological progress and industrial progress. The industrial capital structure has also begun to be completely adjusted. The rise of the private economy has created the textile industry’s current glory. “Sun Ruizhe said that the global financial crisis that took place in 2008 and 2009 caused global demand to shrink dramatically and China’s textile exports were further affected. Although nearly three years have passed, the impact of the crisis still exists. Due to the combined effects of drastic fluctuations in raw material prices and rising costs of human resources, China's textile industry is facing a grim situation. Since the beginning of this year, the profitability of the textile industry, represented by the chemical fiber and textile machinery industries, has been declining. The industry has seen more transformations and upgrades, sought new breakthroughs, and thoughts about the transition to a powerful country by 2020. The task is even more pressing.

Sun Ruizhe pointed out that the severe situation has given this year's meeting an important mission - to let the whole society see the textile industry's persistence and breakthrough. It is in this sense that this academic annual meeting will play a major role at three levels:

First, promote technological innovation and provide intellectual support for the development of the industry. “Currently, rising costs, bottlenecks in fiber resources, and environmental constraints have imposed constraints on the development of the industry. The key to breakthroughs is to offset the cost-rising factors through technological innovations, destroy resource bottlenecks, and remove environmental constraints,” said Sun Ruizhe. China’s current labor wage level is higher than some Southeast Asian countries, and it has lost some orders. If China's textile industry improves labor productivity through technological innovation, it will offset the impact of rising labor wages. Sun Ruizhe said that China’s labor wage is two to three times that of Southeast Asia. Through the efforts of the industry, China’s labor productivity continues to increase, and its increase is sufficient to offset the pressure brought about by the increase in labor factors. In addition, in addition to the core competitiveness of labor factors, we also have the core competitiveness of industry support, which can allow the industry to maintain the advantages of 10 to 20 years.

Speaking of resources, Sun Ruizhe said that the global market value of textile fibers is a conservative estimate of 1.5 trillion yuan, accounting for less than 50% of China's total. From the total amount of fiber resources, 70% of the fiber resources created in China come from the chemical fiber industry. The ups and downs of natural fiber prices such as cotton have made us realize that the development of the industry is looking for alternative products, and it is not necessary to seek breakthroughs through continuous technological innovation.

In addition, environmental protection has become the consensus of the entire society. Recently, some international organizations have continued to report cases in which manufacturers of related brands in China have destroyed the environment during the production process, which has had a significant impact on corporate image and brand image. For the majority of textile enterprises, it is necessary to make some contribution to environmental protection through effective means such as technical input.

Through analysis of the above three aspects, Sun Ruizhe pointed out that technological innovation is the industry's breakthrough predicament and the first element of seeking for the next step in development. Second, mobilize the entire industry to serve the industrial economy.

Judging from the ratio of R&D investment in science and technology to GDP, in the world today, the highest value is South Korea, which is close to 4%. Our country is about 1.76%. Sun Ruizhe said that it is not hard to imagine why South Korea’s economic development has been on the rise. This continuous investment in science and technology has enabled the country and its enterprises to rapidly increase their capabilities. In 2010, China’s total social research and development investment reached 700 billion yuan, while investment in textile research and development funds was less than 2 billion yuan. This is not commensurate with the status of the textile industry in China’s economy, as well as the enormous role it plays in creating jobs and increasing taxes. He stressed that the textile industry should obtain national support through its own efforts, increase investment in scientific research to promote its own development, and mobilize all forces to carry out scientific and technological innovation. Therefore, the annual academic conference will play its own platform function, promote the collection and exchange of cutting-edge scientific and technological information, call for social funds, corporate funds to invest in industry technology research and development, and mobilize the academic forces of the entire industry to attract scientific and technological input. Specifically, it is through the integration of upstream and downstream industry innovation and horizontal integration of production, education and research to mobilize industries and enterprises.

Finally, with the help of high-end academic exchange platforms, the resources will be more integrated and the role of industrial resources will be even greater.

Sun Ruizhe said that the academic annual meeting aims to promote all-round exchanges, not only academic exchanges, but also involves the incubation of scientific and technological achievements, and the link between industrial development and the capital market. The annual meeting will invite the capital market to pay attention to the textile industry incubation platform, hoping to invest in technological innovation. The academic annual meeting hopes to pool the advantages of the society as a whole and jointly assist the development of the textile industry. He also revealed that next year, the Asian Textile Conference sponsored by the China Textile Engineering Society will settle in China, and more external resources will be integrated on this stage.

In addition, there is an important mission of the Academic Annual Conference to evaluate the high-end talent in the industry. “Since the academician Mei Ziqiang, there has been no academician in the textile industry for a decade. In a sense, this is not commensurate with the importance of the textile industry in the national economy.” Sun Ruizhe said that although this status is not a meeting, Reversed, but the academic annual meeting can establish a high-end platform to display, summarize and promote the scientific research achievements of the industry, so that industry scholars and talents have been recognized by the society, laying a solid foundation for the future system engineering construction of academic talents.

The academic annual meeting held last year promoted the incubation of some scientific and technological achievements. From the perspective of feedback, companies did not “exhaust thirst”. Therefore, Sun Ruizhe proposed that the academic annual meeting platform is not only focused on hardware innovation, but also focused on the industry's concentrated innovation, from closed R&D to how to make products more discerning in the minds of consumers and in the market. At the same time, brand building not only stays in the manufacturing sector, but also involves circulation, e-commerce, and consumption. “At present, the academic annual meeting is still in its infancy. In the future, the well-developed academic annual meeting will rapidly realize the effective application of scientific research results by encouraging scientific research and academic investment.” Sun Ruizhe describes the prospect of this high-end platform in a simple language. .