2019 Global Textile and Apparel Supply Chain Conference


08/07

2018

Economic Daily-China Economic Net Fashion Channel reported on April 12? April 10-11, the 2019 Global Textile and Apparel Supply Chain Conference-Ho Chi Minh Summit was held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, from China, Germany, the United States, Vietnam and other countries More than 200 textile and apparel entrepreneurs gathered together to talk about the coordinated development of the global textile and apparel supply chain through rich activities such as keynote speeches, visits and exchanges.
 
Since the 1990 s, Vietnam's textile and garment industry has been developing rapidly. With a group of outstanding Chinese companies such as Shenzhou, Youngor, Huafu, Lutai, Xurong, Far East, and Jifa investing in Vietnam, the textile and garment industry between China and Vietnam The degree of integration is getting higher and higher. Building a sustainable textile and apparel supply chain cooperation relationship is undoubtedly of great significance to promote the development of the global apparel industry and maintain the competitiveness of the textile and apparel industry in China and Vietnam.
 
Sun Ruizhe, President of China Textile Industry Federation, Yang Jichao and Chen Dapeng, Vice Presidents of China Textile Industry Federation, Yuan Hongping, Deputy Secretary-General, Qiao Yanjin, Director of China Textile Information Center, Vu Dejiang, Chairman of Vietnam Textile and Garment Association, Bui Hoang Yang, Deputy Director of Industry Department of Vietnam Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Li Jianliang, Consul General of the People's Republic of China in Ho Chi Minh City, Christian P.Schindler, le Tien Truong, CEO of Vietnam's state-owned textile and garment group, Gu Chaoqing, President of Vietnam's China Chamber of Commerce, Sun Weiting, Chairman of Huafu Holdings and Huafu Fashion, Chen Deqian, General Manager of Asia Pacific Region of Swiss Textile Verification Co., Ltd., Angela Ortigara, Water Resources Management Manager of World Wide Fund for Nature (Germany), and many textile and garment entrepreneurs from China and Vietnam attended the summit.
 
The summit was co-sponsored by the China Textile Industry Federation and the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association, hosted by the China Textile Information Center and the Vietnam-China Chamber of Commerce, the Social Responsibility Office of the China Textile Industry Federation, the China Textile International Exchange Center, and the China-ASEAN Textile and Apparel Productivity Promotion Alliance Co-organized.
 
Chen Dapeng, Joint Vice President of China Textile Industry, Wu Dejiang, Chairman of Vietnam Textile and Garment Association, Ms. Bui Hoang Yen, Deputy Director of Industry Department of Vietnam Ministry of Industry and Commerce, and Li Jianliang, Consul of the People's Republic of China Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City, addressed the summit one after another!
 
2019 Global Textile and Apparel Supply Chain Conference Ho Chi Minh Summit Successfully Held
 
The award and release ceremony was held at the summit site, and four enterprises and institutions, Huafu Fashion Co., Ltd., TESTEX AG, WWF Vietnam and H & K Investment, were awarded the "China-ASEAN Textile and Garment Industry Coordinated Development Promotion Award".
 
The Guidelines for Responsible Overseas Investment in China's Textile and Garment Industry were also officially released at this summit. The China Textile Industry Federation has long been committed to the promotion of social responsibility of China's textile and garment enterprises. In recent years, through cooperation with the German GIZ organization, five consultation meetings for Chinese-funded enterprises, international non-governmental organizations and overseas Chinese-funded enterprises (associations) were held in Nantong, China, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and Yangon, Myanmar, and they were fully listened to the opinions of relevant parties. Improve and form on the basis.
 
As China's first responsible investment guideline based on the life cycle of overseas investment, the "Guidelines for Responsible Overseas Investment in China's Textile and Apparel Industry" emphasizes the responsible corporate behavior of China's textile and apparel industry in the stages of overseas investment evaluation, investment implementation and investment exit, which can help Industry companies better integrate into the global value chain and investment destination, and ultimately contribute to the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind and the realization of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals on a global scale.
 
Sino-Vietnamese Textile: Focus on Synergy, Open Development
 
Sun Ruizhe, President of China Textile Industry Federation, delivered a keynote speech on the theme of "Sustainable Integrated Development of Textile and Garment Industry-Regional Cooperation to Address Global Challenges. He said that China's textile and garment industry has become an important engine driving the development of regional industries, an important industrial platform for promoting global responsibility governance, and an important contributor to the development of China's national economy. At present, the environment of the textile and garment industry is undergoing structural changes, the world economy is unstable and uncertain, global innovation is developing in depth, digital trade is developing rapidly, the regional layout of the supply chain has become an important trend, and the development of responsibility has become a global consensus. Under the new situation, China's textile and apparel supply chain has also undergone new changes. The supply chain has changed to a consumer-driven type, the manufacturing link has become a value center, the channel has developed in the direction of integration and socialization, green and environmental protection elements have been fully integrated into all links of the textile chain, and international Cooperation is deepening.
 
Nowadays, the huge consumer market, open market space and perfect innovation ecology make the textile and garment industry have great development potential and opportunities in China. Under the new situation, the road of win-win cooperation between China and Vietnam's textile and garment industry should focus on coordination, open development, science and technology as the core, innovative development, responsibility-oriented, green development.
 
Vu Dejiang, chairman of Vietnam Textile and Garment Association, introduced the development of Vietnam's textile and garment industry with the theme of "the road of sustainable development of Vietnam's textile and garment industry. He said that at present, Vietnamese garment enterprises have the advantages of excellent labor structure, low cost and preferential export policies. at the same time, there are also challenges such as insufficient development, basic import of raw materials, low technical level and low cultural level of labor force.