On August 3, the press conference of the 2018 World Cloth Conference was held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Sun Ruizhe, president of the China National Textile and Apparel Council, said in his speech that the World Cloth Conference was held at the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening up. Forty years of open practice, China's textile industry has achieved world-renowned achievements, and has become a key force supporting the healthy and smooth operation of the world textile industry system and an important industrial platform for promoting global economic and cultural cooperation. As China enters a new era of reform and opening up, the industry is constantly expanding the breadth and depth of its openness, and its links with the world and its contribution to development will become more prominent.

The current world economic structure is undergoing structural changes, the old and new kinetic energy of the economy is changing, the international pattern and power contrast are accelerating, and the global governance system is profoundly reshaped. The global textile industry chain, value chain and innovation chain are intertwined, and various problems are brought together; the new industry entrance, new model and new interface are constantly emerging, and the original industrial ecology is in flux and deconstruction. Uncertainty in the instability of industry development has increased significantly.

Great opportunities, big changes, a thousand miles, big adjustments, big leap, thousands of miles. Structural changes require us to promote the openness of the industry, deepen the multi-dimensional responsibility and common governance, and achieve common prosperity of the industry with a positive attitude and actions. Sun Ruizhe believes that in order to achieve high-quality development of the textile industry, it is necessary to do a "four adherences":

The first is to face the future, adhere to the advantages and advantages of excellence, interconnected and inclusive, to open up a new pattern. If the industry wants to grow, it must advance in the logic of historical progress and develop in the trend of the times. If there is no way out, the opening can develop. It is necessary to coordinate and promote the “introduction” and “going out” of the industry, strengthen the open cooperation of innovation capabilities, actively promote cross-border flows of resources such as products, production capacity, technology, capital, and talents, and fully integrate and utilize global resources to achieve coordinated development.

The second is to face the future, adhere to the drive of innovation, be brave in practice, and inject new kinetic energy into technology. Strengthen product innovation, strengthen key common technologies and leading edge technology research and development, improve the application of relevant results in products, enhance product development capabilities; promote model innovation, rely on Internet of Things, big data, AI and other technologies to continuously change production models and operating models To promote the industry's intelligent and service-oriented transformation; optimize the innovation environment and gather innovative resources, not only to enhance the ability of independent innovation, but also to strengthen the ability of collaborative innovation.

The third is to face the future, adhere to mutual learning and mutual understanding, and be inclusive, and lead new development with fashion. Based on the genetic roots of culture, deepen the exploration, research and application of cultural elements, enrich product categories, enhance cultural value, aesthetic value and market value. A new fashion value proposition is derived from the collision of communications. Relying on the innovative carriers and high-quality windows such as the cloth cluster, the cultural wisdom of all parties in Heiner, building a common language, and the new development of the industry with new connotations of fashion.

The fourth is to face the future, adhere to green development, responsibility and governance, and create new space with green. Taking green raw materials, green design, green production and recycling as the starting point, we will establish responsible R&D system, procurement system, production system and logistics system to enhance sustainable development capability; strengthen the concept of green low carbon cycle development and deepen people's responsibility , environmental responsibility and market responsibility, integrate green value into the Belt and Road construction, and create a new space for the industry.

He said that Keqiao, as a billion-dollar industrial cluster on a piece of cloth, is China's largest textile enterprise gathering place, China's most authoritative textile index publishing place and the world's largest textile trade distribution center, with strong traffic advantages and branded advantages. Every year, $10 billion worth of textiles are shipped from here to all parts of the world, bringing people a warm and beautiful life. The World Cloth Merchants Conference settled in Keqiao, which will surely attract global attention, incite more markets and bring more opportunities. "The ambition is not to take the mountains and the sea as far away." He believes that with the opportunity of the World Cloth Conference, the exchange and cooperation of the global textile industry will be closer.