Standing on a New Stage, Implementing New Concepts, and Striving to Build a New Development Pattern for the Industry - Summary of the 2023 Annual Work Report of the China Sewing Machinery Association

 

The 2023 China Sewing Machinery Industry Conference and the Third Session of the Eleventh Council of the China Sewing Machinery Association were successfully held in Xiamen on November 30, 2023. At the conference, Vice Chairman and Secretary-General Chen Ji delivered a work report for 2023, comprehensively summarizing the achievements of the association over the past year and looking ahead to 2024. This report is now published for sharing with industry colleagues.

I. Implementing Central Government's Deployment and Optimizing Development Guidance

First, actively implementing the spirit of the central theme education, conducting in-depth research on various topics such as regional development of the sewing machinery industry, digital upgrading, zero-parts supply chain, and the construction of a business and market service system; second, leveraging the association's statistical analysis functions, strengthening industry development guidance and policy recommendations, regularly collecting, analyzing, and disclosing operating data of backbone enterprises, upstream and downstream industry chain data, and customs data from multiple dimensions and angles; third, optimizing the professional evaluation model, conducting surveys on the confidence of entrepreneurs among backbone enterprises, and continuously promoting research on the entrepreneur confidence index of the sewing machinery industry.

II. Focusing on "Specialized, Refined, Unique, and New" to Assist Enterprise Transformation

First, planning and organizing special summit forums, inviting relevant leaders from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the China Industry-Economy Federation, industry single-item champions, and typical "small giant" enterprises to conduct thematic presentations and experience sharing; second, relying on the association's media platform, strengthening the promotion of "specialized, refined, unique, and new" advantage enterprises and products in the industry, guiding the industry to continuously focus on segmented markets, improving product, technology, and service innovation, and optimizing the supply of the industry chain; third, inviting professional institutions and expert teams such as Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the China Automation Technology Alliance to conduct special lectures on the advanced cultivation of "specialized, refined, unique, and new" for small and medium-sized enterprises in the industry, providing enterprises with voluntary diagnosis and special guidance for transformation and upgrading, and improving the enterprise's specialized operation capabilities; fourth, effectively guiding and assisting enterprises in applying for "specialized, refined, unique, and new" enterprise qualifications at the national, provincial, and municipal levels.

III. Organizing Scientific Research and Technological Development to Consolidate the Industry Foundation

First, continuously promoting the key task breakthroughs of the industry's "14th Five-Year Plan" technology roadmap, investing 1 million yuan of the association's own funds to launch the third batch of sewing machinery basic theory and short-board technology soft research projects, selecting and funding 11 projects from Jiangnan University, Xi'an University of Technology, Jack, Dahao, and other scientific research institutions and backbone enterprises through a bidding system.

Second, further strengthening the guidance of advantageous technology resources, focusing on the industry's common needs for key components and key assembly process digital upgrading of sewing equipment, inviting professional institutions such as the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Industry Promotion Center and the China Machinery Science Research Institute to conduct on-site diagnosis and special services for frontline enterprises in the industry, helping to comprehensively improve the industry's equipment and technological level.

Third, orderly organizing the application and evaluation of scientific and technological projects, cumulatively organizing the recommendation of 5 national development and reform commission intelligent action special projects, 3 China Patent Awards, and 20 China Light Industry Federation Science and Technology Progress Awards.

Fourth, continuously optimizing the industry's intellectual property development atmosphere, carrying out real-time dynamic disclosure, early warning, and coordination of industry intellectual property disputes, disclosing nearly ten sets of industry intellectual property data information throughout the year, and coordinating more than ten enterprise disputes.

IV. Practicing the "Three Products" Strategy to Enhance Quality and Brand

First, adhering to digital empowerment and enriching the product system. Relying on the CISMA2023 exhibition platform, a total of 54 intelligent demonstration new product selections were conducted for the entire industry.

Second, combining national standardization work requirements and industry needs, continuously promoting the construction of the industry's technical standards system and standard dissemination services, and consolidating the product quality assurance system.

Third, adhering to the enterprise standard leader evaluation work as a lever to improve the industry's product quality and brand influence. Successfully launched the automatic template machine enterprise standard leader plan, completing a total of 23 enterprise standard leader evaluations throughout the year.

Fourth, relying on the China Light Industry Federation brand evaluation system, actively conducting evaluation and promotion of advantageous enterprises and brands in the industry. The 2022 top 100 light industry enterprises, top 100 light industry technology enterprises, top 50 light industry equipment enterprises, and top ten sewing machinery enterprises were evaluated and awarded.

Fifth, launching special measures for cultivating small and medium-sized enterprise brands, organizing the CISMA2023 exhibition new brand selection, and providing shortlisted enterprises with a series of special support such as booth allocation, exhibition subsidies, and promotion.

V. Innovating Organizational Forms and Cultivating Professional Talent

Effectively promoting the construction of skilled talent teams. Integrating the advantages of industrial agglomeration areas, completing the organization and holding of events in 2022-2023; organizing sewing equipment debugging and maintenance skills special training according to local conditions.

Continuously optimizing the growth atmosphere for entrepreneurial and innovative talents. Completing the second session of the industry's youth entrepreneur competition, selecting and commending 17 entrepreneurial projects.

Orderly implementing training programs for scientific research and standardization professionals. The third phase of youth science and technology talent training, graduation design evaluation, and sewing machinery industry standard formulation training camps were successfully organized this year.

Strengthening comprehensive ability development training for industry leading talents. Successfully organized "Dunhuang Silk Road Gobi Hiking Challenge" and foreign trade business special ability training for young entrepreneurs and senior executives in the industry.

VI. Integrating Media Resources and Deepening Information Publicity

Continuously introducing and integrating media resources. This year, we successfully introduced the central video, China.com, and textile and textile and garment industry chain media platforms, as well as media resources from Japan, India, and other countries, and through upgrading the association's integrated media platform and dissemination methods, multi-angle industry chain information collection and reporting were carried out.

Further strengthening customized services. Throughout the year, relying on the association's media platform and using the CISMA2023 exhibition as a large project, a total of more than 80 enterprises were provided with personalized information publicity services.

VII. Optimizing Organizational Planning and Preparing for the CISMA Exhibition

First, continuously optimizing the CISMA2023 exhibition plan and various service guarantee measures, successfully completing the exhibition investment promotion and exhibition work with a total area of approximately 141,000 square meters and more than 1,300 participating enterprises; second, keeping up with the times and upgrading the CISMA exhibition IP image, completing the design and release of the CISMA exhibition's new LOGO and VI system; third, further innovating the organizational methods, organizing and planning international economic and trade cooperation forums, overseas strategic dealers selection, new brand selection, exhibition theme product selection, sewing machinery technology development forums, skills competitions and other industry public activities; fourth, innovating and upgrading the exhibition dissemination methods, using multiple domestic and industry-leading live broadcast platforms, including the central video mobile terminal, to expand the influence and coverage of the exhibition.

VIII. Organizing Professional Exchanges and Promoting Industrial Linkage

Using digital upgrading as a link, organizing and planning a series of activities for sewing digitalization—industry chain docking, in-depth exploration of the digital and intelligent upgrading direction of sewing equipment products with frontline clothing enterprises such as Ji Hua Group, Yagor, and the China Garment Technology and Innovation Research Institute.

Focusing on intelligent manufacturing, we organized technical exchanges and collaborations with upstream automation and robotics industries. Throughout the year, visits and learning sessions were arranged at leading industrial control enterprises such as Huichuan, along with participation in professional exchange activities like the 2023 Sino-European Intelligent Robot and Automation Conference.

Utilizing association branch organizations as platforms, various professional conferences, forums, and discussion exchange activities were organized. Throughout the year, numerous branch organization meetings were held; the CISMA 2023 International Forum, the Science and Technology Innovation Development Forum (Soft Project Achievement Release Meeting), and the Overseas Dealers Forum were among the many forums and exchange activities planned and held.

IX. Promoting Industry-Education Collaboration and Spreading Sewing Arts Culture

Industry-education collaboration organized an embroidery competition. In collaboration with Ningbo Textile and Garment Vocational and Technical College and other institutions, the "Dahao Cup" National Machine Embroidery Works Selection event was successfully organized, attracting participation from dozens of teams.

Various measures were adopted to conduct sewing arts training and cultural dissemination. Throughout the year, the association secretariat organized multiple sewing arts training and patchwork creative exchange activities, both online and offline, around hot topics such as "Women's Day," "618," and "Double 11."

X. Improving Internal Mechanisms and Achieving New Milestones in Team Building

Firstly, the association secretariat's internal long-term learning mechanism was improved, with internal expert forums, employee lectures, and video online education, consistently organizing 1-2 specialized business education or party-building activities monthly to enhance the theoretical and professional learning of full-time employees; secondly, horizontal exchange and learning between the secretariat team and the industry was actively organized, with the association's core leadership team completing joint training and special study exchanges with executives from companies such as Jack and Fucheng in Gutian, Fujian; thirdly, the secretariat's workflow mechanisms and performance evaluation system were further refined and improved, initiating the development of the association's CRM system, undertaking process streamlining and optimization, and establishing and promulgating a new batch of association regulations, including the "Provisional Regulations on Booth Allocation for the China International Sewing Equipment Exhibition."

The association has successively won honorary titles such as the National Light Industry Standardization Advanced Collective, and was nominated as a candidate for the National Light Industry Advanced Collective. Many people from the secretariat were appointed as experts by the Ministry of Science and Technology, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the China Light Industry Federation, participating in various project reviews. Three industry vocational skill textbooks, "Automatic Cutting Machine Operation and Maintenance Technology," "Automatic Cloth Spreading Machine Operation and Maintenance Technology," and "Household Sewing Machine Operation and Maintenance Technology," jointly compiled by the association and relevant enterprises, won the third prize of the 2022 China Textile Industry Federation's ministerial-level excellent publications.

 

*This news is reprinted from: Sewing Equipment Network