Look at the three topology diagrams below to understand.
Because China has turned the world’s textile industry chain into the solar system, and China itself is the sun.
Because the development of China’s textile industry has subversively changed the industrial chain structure of related fields around the world. From the beginning of this century, that is, the global regional textile industry center in 2000, to In 2017, it became the world’s only textile industry center.
The development of the textile industry in any country is inseparable from China. China plays a leading and dominant role in the global textile industry supply chain.
From the perspective of their own industrial security, Western countries now rely on sanctions on cotton in China’s Xinjiang to take advantage of the opportunity to crack down. China’s absolute dominance of the global textile industry.
These three pictures show the network changes related to the world textile industry from the overall, simple and complex industrial relationship analysis.
Obviously, in 2000, there were many regional textile industry centers in the world in the traditional trade network, which was also the basic structure of the world’s textile industry since the Industrial Revolution.
There are three main regional supply centers in Europe, Germany, Italy and the UK, which add value to the textile sector by exporting final goods to their trading partners. Germany and the UK are connected indirectly via Türkiye.
India is also a secondary supply centre, with inflow links from the UK and outflow links from Nepal and Bangladesh. The presence of Italy as the most traditional country in the fashion sector can be clearly identified in these networks.
In less than 20 years, China has completely overturned the previous world trade structure of the textile industry.
The world’s textile industry no longer coexists with various centers, but has become a planet surrounding the textile solar system of China.
China is a typical country. If you don’t get all the scores to the first place, you will be unhappy and have to reflect.
Textbooks from childhood have always believed that the Great Plains of North America is the most important producing area of cotton in the world, and the United States is the world’s largest cotton producer.
At present, the three largest cotton producing countries in the world are China, India, and the United States. The output of other countries is far inferior.
In fact, since around 2000, China has become the world’s largest cotton producer.
If the output jumps to the first place, it is necessary to study the follow-up processing industry chain to be the first. If the processing industry chain is the first, it is also necessary to study the market share of downstream products to be the first.
China is not only the world’s largest cotton producer, but also has strong industrial capabilities and is the world’s largest cotton textile producer.
In addition, based on our huge market, we are also the largest cotton consumer in the world. To put it simply, from the upstream original production, to the textile processing in the middle, and then to the downstream consumption, the entire industrial chain is covered.
After obtaining so many firsts, the natural next step is to gain industry pricing power.
The New York Futures Exchange has always been the world’s cotton pricing center and controls cotton pricing.
On June 1, 2004, Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange launched cotton futures trading. At first it was independent, but later it was able to influence the world’s cotton futures market, and now it has become the world’s cotton futures market. Cotton trading center.
Looking through the previous news, I found that in 2008, some people were lamenting, “China has become the world’s largest cotton producer and seller, why is there still a lack of “pricing discourse” “Right”.
You see, this is an obsessive-compulsive disorder that requires reflection if you are not the first.
As of 2019, China is already the only center of the textile industry. So the United States naturally has a headache.
So, why Xinjiang? Because Xinjiang’s cotton accounts for more than 80% of China’s cotton production , in a sense, cotton is an important economic pillar of Xinjiang.
In the past two years, Xinjiang has relied on advantageous resources such as raw materials and electricity prices to target textile The industry has introduced special preferential policies to take the initiative to undertake the transfer of textile and apparel industries from the southeastern coastal and eastern provinces and regions.
As of the end of 2019, there were 3,251 registered textile and apparel production enterprises in Xinjiang, achieving Nearly 135,000 new jobs have been created. As a large number of well-known domestic textile and apparel companies invest and build factories in various parts of Xinjiang, the textile and apparel industry chain has extended, which has also become an important channel to solve the local employment problem for the poor.
In fact, compared with the tourism industry such as Internet celebrity check-in that everyone often mentions, light industries such as cotton planting and textile are the most suitable for the development of late-developing areas.��It can maximize the local economy and absorb a large number of people.
The sanctions imposed by Western countries on Xinjiang cotton this time are planned actions to punish the textile industry chain that countless people in China have worked hard to build over the years. Dominant position, carry out destructive attacks, through Western industry associations (such as BCI), international standard setting power, combined with Western superior brands and monopoly advantages on the sales side (Nike, H&M, etc.), to destroy the Chinese textile industry.
It is to develop China’s textile industry.
Although the output value of the textile industry is low, the number of employees is huge, and they are all concentrated in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
To put it bluntly, it attacks the industrial interests of the Chinese people, attempts to affect employment, and then affects social instability, not to mention that Xinjiang’s cotton involves local poverty alleviation and economic development. </p
