Source: China Economic Times
"China and the EU textile industry stakeholders, if the issues of mutual concern to fully explore, can do big cooperation cake." China Council for the Promotion of International Trade Jiang Zengwei recently by the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, the European Union Asia transition project, the United Nations Environment Program , The International Trade Center co-sponsored by the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade and Jingdong Group co-hosted the "China-EU Sustainable Supply Chain Forum" on how to strengthen the textile supply chain of international cooperation and promote the development of China-EU textile green trade.

In recent years, China and the EU have become important economic and trade partners. It is reported that China-EU bilateral trade in 2015 amounted to 564.75 billion US dollars, more than three years ago, more than 40 years ago, an increase of 200 times. This year, China's trade volume between January and October rose by 2.3%, accounting for 15% of the total £¦#118alue of China's foreign trade in the same period, against the backdrop of projected global trade growth of only 1.7%. Among them, China's imports from the EU growth rate as high as 4.5%. If the trade and investment liberalization level to achieve a breakthrough, by 2020 China-EU trade volume can break through 1 trillion US dollars.

In the bilateral trade composition in the textile trade has occupied an important position. According to Chinese customs statistics, in 2015, China's textile and garment exports to the EU 53.132 billion US dollars, the EU textile and garment exports to China reached 40 billion US dollars, almost doubled in 2005.

Jiang Zengwei that at present, China and Europe are in an important stage of deepening the reform, China-EU cooperation is also in a critical period of speed upgrade, the future of Sino-EU economic and trade cooperation is still great potential. So how to dig deep in the textile trade cooperation potential?

In fact, sustainable development is also becoming a new topic in the field of international trade. "Over the next decade, the sustainable supply chain will become the world's only supply chain model, the development of energy efficient and sustainable supply chain system, will eventually achieve the economy," said Charles, head of the United Nations Environment Program's Decade on Sustainable Production and Consumption. , Social and ecological environment win-win-win. "

Therefore, if the textile industry to achieve sustainable supply chain construction, not only conducive to the development of China-EU textile green trade and promote the sustained and steady growth of China-EU textile trade, but also for other industries, trade development in other regions to form a good demonstration.

Building a sustainable supply chain for the textile industry requires not only the support of governments but also the shared responsibility of all the stakeholders in the entire supply chain system. Jiang Zengwei pointed out that the relevant stakeholders in the textile industry in China and Europe can strengthen exchanges in optimizing the sustainable industrial chain, improving the efficiency of resource use and quality standards, and expanding practical cooperation in trade and investment, technology research and development.

"Increasing £¦#118alue through smart supply chains, improving industry chain performance and transparency, and minimizing the information gap are key to achieving sustainable supply chain development at this stage," said Fu Bing, vice president of Jingdong Group.

Zhao Ping, director of the International Trade Research Institute of CCPIT, believes that to build a sustainable supply chain in the textile industry, we must first aim at developing eco-textiles and promote eco-design and certification of eco-textiles. Secondly, to promote the textile raw material manufacturers to carry out clean production, to encourage natural fiber production enterprises to reduce pollution at source, support the chemical fiber production optimization process, research and development to biomass engineering technology as the core of the regenerated fiber and synthesis. Finally, to promote the recycling of waste textiles, the development of recycled polyester fiber industry, select the economic and rational use of renewable technology routes, build a circular economy industrial chain.

The United Nations Environment Program and the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade Institute will also jointly issued "China's textile sustainable supply chain action program" to promote the sustainable development of the textile industry.