Modern textile industry

After the first industrial revolution, textile factories in Western Europe developed rapidly. After 1840, a large number of "foreign yarns" and "foreign cloths" were dumped into China, almost destroying China's textile handicraft industry. In the 1860s, when the Westernization Movement began, the Westernization Group gradually established the official military industry and expanded to the production of military textiles. For example, Zuo Zongtang’s Lanzhou Weaving General Administration, which was held in 1880, is the first textile factory in China to use a full set of power machines besides silk. In the same period, foreign capitalists also began to build textile factories in China. For example, the Baochang silk factory in France, which was run by the French in Shanghai, was also put into operation in 1878.

During this period, in addition to the official textile mills and the increasing number of foreign capital textile mills established by local bureaucrats in various provinces, local gentry also gradually established joint ventures with private and official textile companies. The First World War was a short spring for China's national textile industry. By 1919, the National Huashang Cotton Mill had 54 1.65 million spindles. At the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the National Government took over the 69 textile factories of the Japanese in China and formed a "China Textile Construction Company" (hereinafter referred to as "China Textile Corporation"), which is a state-owned bureaucratic capitalism.

China Textile Corporation was at the forefront of China's textile industry at that time, and its technology was also in a leading position. China Textile Corporation absorbed the advantages of Japanese-funded factory management, went to the rough, refined and compiled technical documents such as textile operation standard methods and textile technology specifications, and launched multi-phase technical training courses to train technical backbones and skilled workers at all levels.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the government took over the factories of China Textile Construction Corporation and changed them to state-owned enterprises. The private textile factory gradually implemented socialist transformation, and through the public-private partnership phase, it eventually turned into a state-run. We will build a large-scale textile machinery manufacturing plant and build a chemical fiber manufacturing plant. The textile industry has entered a stage of vigorous development.

Since the 1950s, China has begun to introduce the technology of vinylon fiber. In the 1960s, the technology of acrylic fiber was introduced to produce chemical fiber. By the early 1980s, more than 200 textile machinery factories nationwide formed professional cooperation in the form of main machine division, parts production, special accessory production, and professional production. network. China has been able to produce more than 1,500 complete sets of equipment, special accessories and accessories for cotton textiles , wool textiles, hemp textiles, silk weaving, printing and dyeing.