Ye Maosheng: Challenges and Suggestions for Promoting China's Eastern Textile Moving Westward Strategy

Release time:2024-05-20Author: Ye Maosheng

For a long time, China's textile industry has been a major contributor to trade surplus. Accelerating the orderly transfer of textile supply chains from coastal areas to the central and western regions is an important measure to avoid industrial hollowing-out, rooting manufacturing capacity in China's inland market.


The central and western regions face many challenges in undertaking the transfer of textile industry from coastal areas.

1. The lack of coordinated layout between regions in industrial transfer makes it easy for various regions to form homogeneous and excessive competition when attracting investment.

2. The transportation and logistics are poor, making it difficult for eastern, central, and western regions to cooperate and divide the work during the process of industrial transfer.

3. The implementation of government policies is inadequate, and the entrepreneurs are lack of investment confidence.

4. There is a severe shortage of labor resources, and the industry practitioners are facing a talent reserve gap.

5. The upstream raw material market in the industrial chain is controlled by the capital, seriously disrupting the normal operation of downstream textile enterprises.


This article provides the following suggestions through analysis.

1. At the macro level of industrial policy, the top-level design of industrial layout should be based on the resource and location advantages of the eastern, central, and western regions.

2. Optimize the layout of logistics and transportation, accelerate the integration of port resources, and reduce logistics costs across regions.

3. Further standardize the investment promotion policies, create a favorable business environment, and enhance the investment confidence of entrepreneurs.

4. Accelerate the elimination of outdated production capacity, and solve labor shortages through digital and intelligent upgrades.

5. Strictly crack down on speculation in the textile raw material futures market and foreign exchange market, and improve the cost environment faced by the textile industry.