GDP Quality and "Five Changes in Textile Industry"

Business News Agency August 8th Recently, the Chinese Academy of Sciences in the "China Science Development Report 2011" for the first time in each region of China's "GDP quality" ranking, which has aroused widespread concern in all sectors of society. The report shows that Beijing, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Tianjin, and Jiangsu rank among the top five in the quality of GDP in all regions of China, while the ranking of GDP in western provinces is relatively backward.

Some analysts believe that it is of great significance to rank and evaluate local GDP by "quality" rather than by simple quantities. This is not only conducive to a more comprehensive and accurate review of the true level of local economic development, but also helps us to eliminate the only “GDP worship” from the value concept, and further promotes people-oriented, comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable scientific development. Views continue to spread in popularity.

Some media also pointed out that China has used GDP as the sole and important indicator to measure the development of local economy and even the development of the country for many years. This can of course reflect the economic strength of a region or even a country to some extent, but this does not fully reflect the economic development of. Extensive development that ignores quality and GDP is no higher than a province that has already entered the "economically strong province", and does not mean that China has entered the "economically strong country."

Niu Wenyuan, the chief editor of the report and counselor of the State Council, stressed that the purpose of this report is to let the public understand the GDP scientifically, neither blindly admiring GDP nor blindly abandoning GDP. All regions in China should continue to pursue "good quality GDP", which means "rational efficiency, use of less resources, less sacrifice of the environment, and comprehensive reduction of natural costs, production costs, social costs, and institutional costs under the premise of GDP."

As early as a few years ago, Du Yuzhou, president of the China Textile Industry Association, proposed that China's textile industry must work hard to complete the "five changes." The so-called "five major transformations" refer firstly to relying mainly on the comparative advantages of the labor force, and relying mainly on innovation-driven changes, vigorously promoting independent research and development, introduction and digestion, accelerating technological transformation, eliminating obsolete equipment, increasing labor productivity, and improving technology and brand-to-textile economy. Second, we must shift from a resource-consumption type to a resource-saving one, develop a recycling economy and a low-carbon economy. Third, we must change from neglecting the environment to an environment-friendly one, developing clean production, and strengthening environmental governance. Fourth, It is necessary to change from extensive production organization mode to modern intensive organization mode, promote the adjustment of enterprise structure, regional structure and industrial cluster structure, and further expand all-round international cooperation in resources, technology, production, design and research and development, branding and education; Fifth, it is necessary to make a transition to a more complete market economic order, increase market efficiency, and strengthen self-discipline in the industry.

"Reasonably and efficiently, use less resources, and less sacrifice the environment, comprehensively reduce the costs of nature, production, society, and system." Now think of the "five changes" put forward by President Du, and every change is related to the pursuit of "good quality GDP." Match!

Over the years, China's textile industry has been taking responsibility for people's livelihood, the pillar of national economy, and the important task of international competitive advantage. At the same time, it has actively adjusted its structure and changed its mode of development. It has made great efforts to pursue “good quality GDP” and has made considerable progress. Taking energy-saving and emission-reduction as an example, during the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” period, the cumulative energy consumption of China’s textile industry’s unit value added has decreased by approximately 40%, and the amount of fresh water produced by printing and dyeing cloth has been reduced by 37.5% per 100 meters. Pollution control and resource recycling technologies have been widely promoted. During the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period, the energy saving and environmental protection goals of the textile industry have also been determined: on the basis of energy saving and emission reduction fully meeting the requirements of the national mandatory implementation standards and fulfilling the tasks of energy saving and emission reduction issued by the state, large-scale implementation of cleaner production and basic establishment of low carbon , green, circular economy system.

People often say that the wrong answers are all sorts of strange things. There is only one correct answer. It is no accident that the pursuit of "good quality GDP" coincides with the "five changes" of the textile industry. It is an inevitable result derived from the principle of scientific development.