Advanced Seminar on Promotion of Development Capability in Textile & Garment Industry for Lancang-Mekong Countries 2019 (hereinafter referred to as the “Seminar”) started on the Yan'an Campus of Donghua University on October 9. The Principal and Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee Yu Jianyong attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech. Leaders and guests present include Xu Yingxin, Vice President of China Textile Industry Federation, President of Textile Industry Branch of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, Li Yuan, Deputy Director of Asia Division, Department of International Cooperation, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and Liang Pengcheng, Executive Vice President of Textile Industry Branch of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, Lin Yunfeng, Vice President of the Textile Industry Branch of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, Tian Wennan, Consul General of the Royal Consulate General of the Kingdom of Cambodia, Ni Yangsheng, President of the China Textile and Apparel Education Society, and Yan Yan, Director of the Responsible Supply Chain Association. The heads of relevant departments of Donghua University all attended the meeting.
(Yu Jianyong delivered a speech)
In his speech, Yu Jianyong welcomed the representatives of the five countries from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, and expressed gratitude to the China Textile Industry Federation and the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade Textile Industry Branch, which have long supported the development of the school. He believes that as one of the serial projects for promoting the production capacity of the textile and garment industry in the six countries, it is of great significance to hold the Advanced Seminar on Promotion of Development Capability in Textile & Garment Industry for Lancang-Mekong Countries 2019 in Donghua University. In recent years, the school has taken the initiative to serve the “Belt and Road Initiative” and continuously increased the opening up of education to attract foreign students from all over the world to further their studies. It has trained a large number of talents for the development of the global textile industry and international cooperation. He pointed out that as a member of the Belt and Road World Textile University Alliance, the school will take this project as the starting point, and uphold the spirit of peaceful cooperation, openness and tolerance, mutual learning, mutual benefit and win-win, and strengthen the exchanges and cooperation between the universities so as to contribute its wisdom and force.
(Opening Ceremony)
(Students listened carefully)
The seminar will focus on cutting-edge trends such as the development of modern textile technology, the upgrading of textile and garment industry and the practice of sustainable development of China's textile industry through the exchange of thematic reports, field visits and investigations, etc. The teaching staff is composed of professors and scholars from Donghua University and senior experts and tutors from industry associations. The textile and garment industry is the key and pillar industry of Lancang-Mekong countries. We look forward to deepening our understanding of China's development through the study and discussion on this advanced seminar. We thank China for providing such a platform for us to further join hands and discuss on how to strengthen the textile and garment industry.
It is understood that since the publication of the Sanya Declaration of the First Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Leaders' Meeting— For a Community of Shared Future of Peace and Prosperity among Lancang-Mekong Countries in 2016, China and lancang-mekong countries have conducted extensive cooperation in policy communication, production capacity cooperation and other areas to promote common development and achieved fruitful results. Lancang-mekong cooperation (lancang-mekong cooperation) has become one of the most dynamic and promising cooperation mechanisms in the Mekong sub-region and an important platform for extensive consultation and joint development.
In recent years, the university gives full play to the advantages of textile, clothing, materials and other characteristic subjects, aiming at the national development strategy, in cooperation with industry associations, Orient International, Jiangsu Sunshine Group and other corporations to promote the Belt and Road international production capacity cooperation in the textile industry. China's textile industry has actively responded to the requirements of the development of cooperation mechanism and taken the lead in organizing and carrying out international production capacity cooperation in the field of textile and clothing. The seminar is also an innovative measure taken by university and industry associations to promote the establishment of a lancang-mekong textile and apparel industry cooperation and dialogue mechanism and enhance the status of lancang-mekong countries in the global textile industry and value chain.
The seminar was hosted by the Textile Industry Branch of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade and undertaken by Donghua University. Nearly 30 government officials, association leaders, industrial parks and representatives of large textile and garment enterprises and research institutions from Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand and Laos came to China for a nine-day visit and exchange.
