Mao Tao: Textile Industry Urgently Needs To Create Green Supply Chain

In the circular on recommendation of the third batch of green manufacturing list issued by the general office of the Ministry of industry and information technology, the green supply chain put the textile and clothing into the declaration scope for the first time, and encouraged the core manufacturing enterprises with strong representativeness, powerful influence, strong operation strength and green supply chain management foundation to declare the green supply chain management demonstration enterprises.

In recent years, the China Federation of textile industry regards "technology, green and fashion" as an example.

The new positioning, advocating the industry to green raw materials, green design, green production, recycling applications as the starting point, and continuously promote the green development of the textile industry.

However, the green development of the textile industry still has much room for improvement. In practice, we need to constantly improve the concept and seize the key points, especially in the development of green supply chain.

At the same time of rapid development, it brings a lot of energy consumption and pollutant emissions.

According to the 2012 environmental statistics, 41 of the surveyed statistics

China's textile industry wastewater emissions amount to 23.7 billion tons, ranking third, and the textile industry COD emissions ranked fourth in the industrial sector.

In order to solve the constraints of resources and environment and speed up the green development of the textile industry, while strengthening government supervision, we need to innovate the way of environmental management. In particular, we should strengthen the application of marketization and socialized means, form a synergy management mechanism of government regulation, market drive and public participation, and play a set of combined boxing to promote the green pformation and development of enterprises.

Green supply chain management is a kind of innovative environmental management mode based on market. Relying on the supply relationship between core enterprises and upstream and downstream enterprises, the positive incentive of green supplier management and green procurement, which is carried out by core enterprises, is promoted by purchasing as a link to promote the green level of upstream and downstream enterprises.

As far as the textile industry is concerned, its industrial chain is long, and the ecological environment caused by the manufacturing process is great. The seasonal characteristics of the terminal products are obvious, and they are expendable products, and the social demand is large.

By creating a green supply chain and giving full play to the driving role of enterprises, especially the leading enterprises, forming a "point with line, line and surface" pattern, we can manage the environmental management of textile products design, production, circulation, sales, recycling, reuse, processing and other links. At the same time, it pushes the changes in the main behavior patterns of the designers, suppliers, producers, distributors, distributors and consumers, and then forms environmentally friendly production and consumption patterns of textiles, and reduces the ecological and environmental impact of the whole life cycle of textiles.

In recent years, the state has promulgated a series of policy standards such as "green industrial development plan (2016-2020 years)", "green manufacturing engineering implementation guidelines (2016-2020 years)", "textile industry development plan (2016-2020 years)", "notice on the development of green manufacturing system", "green manufacturing enterprise green supply chain management guidelines" and a series of supporting projects, such as green manufacturing demonstration, and actively guide textile and other industry leading enterprises to create green supply chain.

"Textile industry development plan (2016-2020 years)" clearly put forward, "carry out green supply chain management pilot, and build a textile recycling system from raw materials, production, marketing, consumption to recycling, and cultivate green supply chain demonstration enterprises."

According to the circular on the construction of green manufacturing system, the Ministry of industry and information technology has launched two demonstration projects in green production, green factories, green parks and green supply chains. According to the circular on the construction of green manufacturing system, the two batch of green manufacturing demonstration work has been carried out. The textile and garment industry has been added to the demonstration field of green supply chain, which has just started, which has an important role in promoting the excellent green supply chain management enterprises in the textile industry, setting up a typical industry and promoting the green development of the industry. Four

In addition to national promotion, some third party organizations have also carried out relevant practices.

In 2008, the natural resources protection Association launched the "clean start design" project to guide pnational activities.

And retailers to create green supply chain to reduce the environmental impact of related factories.

According to the report of the natural resources protection association, in 2016, more than 20 printing and dyeing enterprises in China had saved nearly 4 million tons of water and saved more than 30 thousand tons of coal and saved more than 8 million US dollars in cost throughout the year.

In 2014, the public environmental research center and the natural resources protection association jointly developed the green supply chain CITI index to evaluate the performance of supply chain environmental management in textile, electronics and other industries.

The 2017 green supply chain CITI index shows that H&M, GAP, Adidas, Nike, Yida, Lining, YOUNGOR and other textile enterprises have established a green supply chain, which has already played a certain role in the industry.

From a global perspective, foreign textile enterprises take the lead in applying the green supply chain to practice. Some multinational enterprises have become the benchmark of the industry, and more or less have led to the green development of the industry.

From the domestic perspective, although there have been some relevant policy standards, there have been some enterprise practices, but there are still few domestic enterprises engaged in green supply chain management.

In order to mobilize the enthusiasm of textile enterprises to create green supply chain, we should focus on the following tasks:

First of all, provide clear direction guidelines. As most textile enterprises do not have a high degree of awareness of green supply chain, they do not know what they are, nor do they know how to do so.

Therefore, textile enterprises which actively extend corporate social responsibility and create green supply chain are less.

In order to guide enterprises to participate, on the one hand, it is suggested to organize industry experts and excellent enterprises to go deep into the local areas, especially the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta and other textile enterprises gathering areas, and carry out the green supply chain policy propaganda and experience sharing work, so as to enhance the enterprise's cognition and understanding of this work.

On the other hand, it is recommended to introduce the green supply chain management guidelines for textile and garment industry, take the lead in the form of group standard or industry standard, and then upgrade it to national standard after maturity, provide a model reference for enterprises to create green supply chain, and explore the evaluation index of green supply chain of textile industry, so as to provide more objective judgement basis for the government or third party organizations to explore excellent textile enterprises.

Promoting the green development of the textile industry is a systematic project involving many links, multiple subjects, multiple systems and mechanisms, and it is difficult to achieve overnight.

Among them, the most important part of production is the green production of upstream enterprises, which is the focus of green supply chain management.

To promote green production of textiles, the most important thing is to reduce water consumption and reduce the discharge of related pollutants.

Therefore, it is necessary to carry out ecological design, improve production technology, and purchase advanced environmental treatment facilities.

But for enterprises, it often means hard input, and these inputs will be pmitted step by step along the industrial chain, which is ultimately reflected in the sale price of terminal textiles.

From the whole life cycle, the environmental impact of green textiles has been reduced, but its price has increased.

In the absence of a green consumption atmosphere, green

It is difficult to gain market competitive advantage.

In order to solve this predicament, we should form a steady and continuous positive incentive in the strict enforcement of environmental law and justice. In particular, we should increase tax relief for green textile enterprises and lower the approval threshold of green credit and green bonds, so that enterprises can benefit from green behavior, so as to mobilize the enthusiasm of textile enterprises to participate in green supply chain management.

The textile industry chain is longer, involving fiber manufacturing.

The links of weaving, printing and dyeing, clothing, washing, packaging and so on, of course, the ecological environment of different links will also be different.

Among them, the printing and dyeing links have the greatest impact on the ecological environment.

Therefore, we should grasp the key points and guide the printing and dyeing enterprises to create green supply chain, so as to promote the printing and dyeing enterprises to enhance the level of green production.

In addition, enterprises producing terminal textiles also need to focus.

Compared with other enterprises in the industrial chain, these enterprises are at the end of the industrial chain and have strong driving force for the whole industrial chain. If we can establish a scientific green supply chain management system, we can carry out comprehensive environmental management of product design, production and pportation.

After locking these two types of subjects, we can guide the enterprises with higher share of the market to take the lead in creating a green supply chain, so as to get twice the result with half the effort and maximize the green level of the whole chain.

In addition to production enterprises, large business platform, supermarkets and shopping malls also have strong industry driving.

This is because terminal textiles are mainly sold in these large platforms or locations.

By guiding the main body to create green supply chain, especially for green procurement, the scientific management of suppliers can pfer the incentive effect to textile production and logistics enterprises step by step, and drive relevant enterprises to enhance the level of green development.

(the writer is deputy director and Associate Research Fellow of the Institute of energy resources and environment, Center for international economic and technological cooperation, Ministry of industry and information technology)