CCTV News: The textile and garment industry is a traditional advantageous industry in Zhejiang. Not long ago, the modern textile and garment cluster around Hangzhou Bay was successfully selected as the national advanced manufacturing cluster. In the next "China's New Foreign Trade Kinetics", let's go to Zhejiang together to see how the local area promotes the textile industry to climb "high" and "new" and promotes high-quality textiles to overseas.

In China Textile City, about one-quarter of the global fabric transactions are carried out here every year. In 2024, the total transaction volume here exceeded 400 billion yuan for the first time, among which foreign trade achieved a significant growth. In everyone's impression, textiles are often used in clothing, and in the modern textile technology innovation center, textiles can not only be used in clothing, but also "going to heaven and earth into the human body."

In November 2024, the return capsule of Shenzhou No. 18 successfully landed, and the red and white striped Shenzhou umbrella left a deep impression on people. This giant parachute can cover about three standard basketball courts when spread on the ground, and the parachute rope on the umbrella was jointly developed by Zhejiang Modern Textile Technology Innovation Center and enterprises.

This is a stretcher, which is equivalent to two two-ton trucks pulling each other. Under such force, whether this paracord can be pulled off, let's test together.

Hu Neng, a researcher at Zhejiang Modern Textile Technology Innovation Center, introduced: "Although this fiber is very thin, it actually contains 10,000 ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene raw silk. It is woven through core enclosure. It remains motionless under this high-strength tensile instrument."

In recent years, from polyester, spinning to weaving, printing and dyeing, to clothing and industrial textiles, the technological innovation of the entire textile industry chain has continuously promoted the entire chain of Shaoxing's new textile products.

Qi Dongming, deputy director of Zhejiang Modern Textile Technology Innovation Center, said: "This piece of fabric made of ultra-high molecular polyethylene is equivalent to ancient gold wire soft armor. It cannot be broken by using a utility knife. This is a special cable used for deep-sea mooring. It is stronger than metal. It can pull and can hold hurricanes above level 17 during typhoons, with a service life of 20 to 30 years. This is a new generation of artificial blood vessels that can be punctured and injected, especially for people who often need injections after renal dialysis."

The products introduced by Qi Dongming are developed in cooperation with the innovation center and enterprises. With the establishment of a R&D team at the source fiber end, intermediate printing and dyeing link, and future textile fields, the innovation center has formed a benign cooperation model with the enterprises. The company sets questions, teaches questions in the center, and tests in the workshop. The ecosystem of collaborative innovation in production, education, research and application accelerates the continuous release of innovation momentum for textile products.

Qi Dongming introduced: "We have more than 100 full-time scientific researchers and more than 200 senior master's and doctoral students. They answer questions as a group, and then go to the workshop to verify and verify questions. Is this technology possible? It is basically delivered to form a spiral."

In the first 11 months of 2024, the average R&D investment intensity of Shaoxing's standardized textile enterprises reached 4.0%, and exported textile yarns, fabrics and their products to 140.2 billion yuan, an increase of 8.4% over the same period in 2023.

For high-quality textiles to go overseas, in addition to having good products, a good service ecology is also indispensable. This is a company engaged in the export of clothing fabrics. Now the company's tax refund business can be handled online with just a finger.

Hu Zhenzhen, general manager of Shaoxing Kahn Trading Co., Ltd., said: "In 2024, our total export volume exceeded 50 million yuan, and we enjoyed about 6 million yuan in export tax rebate. It is very convenient to operate and can be received in about three working days."

In addition, Shaoxing Textile has also upgraded through cross-border e-commerce marketing models, digital transformation technology innovation and other methods. The local customs have helped enterprises fully enjoy the dividends of the free trade agreement and better "go global".

Li Xiaobin, deputy chief of the First Section of the Comprehensive Business Section of Shaoxing Customs, said: "Help the enterprises in our jurisdiction open up the supply chain model of traditional advantageous industries and new business formats, help them further reduce operating costs and explore overseas markets. It also optimizes the import process of duty-reducing equipment, improves production capacity through more advanced technologies, and injects more new quality productivity into the export of Shaoxing textile enterprises."