Fiber materials lead the way in technology, shape fashion, lay a solid foundation for greenness, and safeguard the essence of health. They are the key force that links industrial innovation with a better life and connects supply transformation with consumption upgrade. From October 16th to 17th, 2025, the International Advanced Fiber Materials Innovation Conference was held in Shengze, Wujiang. With the theme of "Thousands of Threads Revitalize Consumption", a series of technological innovation solutions, multiple high-tech products and 11 major signings were presented, revealing the value upgrade code of fiber materials.

Sun Ruizhe, Party Secretary and President of the China National Textile and Apparel Council, Zhu Meifang, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World and Director of the National Key Laboratory of Advanced Fiber Materials, Ni Qingqing, Academician of the Japan Academy of Engineering and Professor at Shinshu University, Yan Yan, Vice President of the China National Textile and Apparel Council, Chen Yu, Deputy District Head of Wujiang District People's Government and Party Secretary of Shengze Town Li Bo, Director of the Productivity Promotion Department of the China National Textile and Apparel Council, Deputy Director of the China Textile Information Center and Director of the Textile Product Development Center, Wu Tong, Deputy Director of the Textile Division of the Consumer Goods Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Qi Mei, Deputy Director of the China Textile Information Center, Chen Baojian, Deputy Director of the Textile Product Development Center, and Song Fujia, Chief Engineer, Zhong Yi, the product director of Anta Children's Online Clothing & Accessories Department, Luo Fang, the general manager of Deta Color Trading (Shanghai) Co., LTD., Gong Zhaoqing, the general manager of Shandong Aiwen Biotechnology Co., LTD., and other leaders and guests attended.

High-end consensus, "a single thread" conceals the wisdom of industrial innovation

If fibers are the "nerve endings" of the textile industry, then the innovation ecosystem is the "central system". As the host, Chen Yu, in his speech, was the first to highlight Shengze's confidence in innovation: "Led by the National Advanced Functional Fiber Innovation Center, we have gathered innovative enterprises and research institutions, forming a closed-loop system from basic research to pilot-scale incubation and then to industrial transformation." He said that Shengze actively promotes technological research and development, overcomes a number of key technological bottlenecks, accelerates the transformation and application of achievements, deepens the collaboration of industry, academia and research with universities and research institutions, and helps fiber materials move out of the laboratory and integrate into the large market.

Wu Tong emphasized in his speech that the textile industry, as an important livelihood industry, shoulders a significant mission in expanding domestic demand and invigorating the market. Fibers are the key to meeting the increasingly diverse, personalized and quality-oriented consumption demands of the people. At present, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is accelerating the transformation of innovative achievements in the fiber field by setting benchmarks. It calls on the industry to make efforts in three aspects: deeply exploring the technological connotation of materials, jointly building an ecosystem of collaborative innovation, and extending the scene boundaries of fibers, to build a value co-creation pattern throughout the entire industrial chain, and efficiently convert the "technological potential" of advanced fiber materials into the "market momentum" that empresses consumption upgrades.

Zhu Meifang said in her speech that currently, three major development trends are prominent: the intelligent breakthrough of functional fibers, the accelerated innovation of bio-based and circular fibers, and the deepening of multi-technology integration. She pointed out that in order to move from "following" to "taking the lead", the textile industry must build an open, collaborative and symbiotic innovation ecosystem. First, we must strengthen original basic research and achieve more independent innovation results from "0 to 1". Second, a "demand-driven" reverse research and development mechanism should be established, making the real market demands and the potential pain points of consumers the starting point and target of material research and development. Thirdly, we should embrace the comprehensive empowerment of "digitalization and intelligence", build data resource nodes, and contribute to the construction of the National New Materials Big Data Center.

Advanced fiber materials reshape supply capacity, activate application scenarios, and lead quality consumption, becoming the key focus for the textile industry to achieve a qualitative leap in the new development pattern. Sun Ruizhe's speech pushed the consensus to a deeper level. He proposed that fiber innovation drives consumption upgrading, expands consumption space and leads the future of consumption. It is hoped that the industry will deepen the application innovation of fiber materials through "strengthening the source, stabilizing the chain and expanding scenarios", lead consumer demand with high-quality supply and support the construction of a modern industrial system with high-efficiency collaboration. In this regard, he put forward three expectations. First, we must lay a solid foundation and seek impetus from original innovation. Second, we need to be driven by demand and seek vitality through scenario innovation. Third, we must achieve synergy and coexistence, and seek joint efforts through ecological innovation.

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