China has become the world's largest producer, exporter, and consumer of textiles. In 2022, China's total fiber processing volume exceeded 60 million tons, accounting for 50% of the world's total, and its textile and clothing exports reached 340.9 billion US dollars, accounting for a stable one-third of the world's total. The textile and clothing industry was the first to propose and implement China’s CSC9000T corporate social responsibility standard in China. Among its peers worldwide, the level of emission reduction and carbon reduction technology is advanced, and it has accepted and implemented the concept and evaluation of ESG strategies (environment, society, governance) earlier.
The modern fashion industry is facing humanity’s common climate and environmental challenges. Firstly, energy consumption and water pollution, as well as the use of nondegradable chemical fibers and chemicals in the production process of textile and clothing. Secondly, as the largest amount of consumer goods, energy and water are consumed during circulation and consumption, resulting in excessive packaging and consumption, including a large amount of excess inventory generated by "use and discard" products and "fast fashion" models, as well as improper destruction of out of season products; Thirdly, overgrazing and excessive exploitation of nature have caused a lot of damage to the ecosystem.
Many contradictions and challenges need to be resolved to achieve sustainable development and low-carbon goals. From the practice in the park, we can observe the low-carbon path of China's clothing industry.
- Ecological and intensive transformation of the clothing and textile industry park
- Innovation and transformation of green and low-carbon technologies
- Digital intelligence empowers green, low-carbon new scenarios and new quality productivity
- The Circular Economy Model of Textile Industry Park
- The low-carbon governance and transformation path of industrial parks
The author summarizes the ideas and approaches for the ecological transformation of China's textile industry parks as follows:
1. Build a new ecological industrial park integrating agriculture, industry and trade, government enterprise research cooperation, sustainable fashion research and development, design, and manufacturing.
2. Construct innovative resource aggregation basins and technological innovation polarization, highland and promote the paradigm revolution and paradigm transfer, market application, and commercial transformation of technology (including green and low-carbon technologies) through industrial park platforms.
3. Promote vertical and horizontal deep integration of industrial parks: intensive management and supply of electricity, steam, heat, and water; intensive treatment, emissions, and recycling; Lean industrial chain, supply chain, and value chain governance empowered by intelligence. Reduce carbon consumption and improve carbon efficiency.
4. Replace limited physical capital resources with unlimited digital information data, replace depleted nonrenewable resources with unlimited renewable resources, and replace or enhance limited carbon energy with powerful silicon energy.
5. Distributed green energy utilization, resource management, and low-carbon governance, such as carbon footprint tracing and measurement, carbon certification, green certification, and carbon trading; design a zero carbon mechanism to leverage the collaborative capabilities of industrial networks and society within and outside the industrial park.
6. Building a fashion industry park layout that integrates textile and clothing, with materials and design as two wings, implementing high standards of green, low-carbon, corporate social responsibility, and free trade agreements, accelerating the global fashion industry towards zero carbon. |
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