The Competition Of Industrial Textiles Industry Will Change From Low Cost Advantage To High Cost Performance Advantage

Industrial textiles are specially designed textiles with engineering structure characteristics. These textiles have high technology content, high added value, high labor productivity and wide industrial penetration. They are widely used in medical and health, environmental protection, transportation, aerospace, new energy and many other fields.   　　

By 2016, China has become the world's largest producer, consumer and exporter of industrial textiles, accounting for more than one-third of the world's output and more than 25% of the world's exports. Although the proportion of China's industrial textiles in the textile industry has increased to about 20%, there is still a large gap compared with the proportion of about 30% in developed countries, and the development potential is huge.
According to the data of National Bureau of statistics, the industrial added value of Enterprises above Designated Size in China's industrial textiles industry will increase by 54.1% in 2020. In terms of production, as the main raw materials for masks, protective clothing and disinfectant wipes, the output of nonwovens of Enterprises above Designated Size reached 5.791 million tons, up 15.8% year on year. In terms of economic benefits, in 2020, the total operating income and total profit of Enterprises above Designated Size in China's industrial textiles industry will be 319.84 billion yuan and 36.53 billion yuan respectively, with a year-on-year increase of 32.6% and 203.2%, and the operating profit rate is 11.4%, which is 6.4% higher than that in the same period in 2019.
In 2021, the medium and high-speed development trend of the industry continues, and enterprises above the designated size are optimistic about the development of China's industrial textiles industry in 2021. With the enhancement of investment intention of fixed assets in 2021, enterprises in special textile fields such as geotechnical construction, safety protection, filtration separation and other fields generally have good business expectations for 2021. Due to the rapid growth of medical and health textile and nonwovens enterprises in 2020, facing the situation of slowing down the demand for epidemic prevention materials, they are more cautious in forecasting the whole year. At the same time, the dependence of China's industrial textiles industry on the international market is relatively low. Of course, in the process of operation, enterprises are still faced with the problems such as the rapid growth of industrial capacity, the continuous increase of production costs, the difficulty of overseas market expansion, and the decline of some application market demand. Especially since this year, the prices of the main raw materials for industrial textiles have entered the rising channel, and the labor costs of enterprises have also continued to rise. It is urgent for enterprises to overcome these two problems.
In general, opportunities and challenges coexist in the current industrial textiles industry. In the future, the competition of industrial textiles industry will change from low-cost advantage to high cost performance advantage, from scale and volume advantage to innovative application advantage, from breadth expansion advantage to depth leading advantage, from domestic manufacturing base to global manufacturing network. The industrial textile industry will continue to develop in the continuous exploration and reverse the declining trend that the proportion of the whole industry in the textile industry is relatively low.