On September 22, 2017 Shaanxi Textile Summit Forum was opened in Xi'an Engineering University. The theme of this forum is to focus on the construction of the Belt and Road and revitalize the Shaanxi textile economy. Nearly 200 people from textile and textile machinery enterprises, institutions, institutions and media in Shaanxi Province participated in the forum.

As the only university in western China that features textiles and clothing. The president of Xi'an University of Engineering, Gao Ling, introduced the history of Xi'an University of Engineering and the achievements in science and technology. After more than 100 years of development, the school has formed a textile engineering as the core, textile machinery and textile information control after the textile industry chain and technology needs. , clothing design and engineering, textile economic management as the extension of the five major textile discipline groups, constitute a complete textile discipline chain.

The reporter learned from the forum that under the background of the Belt and Road, the province's location advantage has become increasingly prominent, bringing opportunities to the textile industry. Participants hope that our province can give full play to the advantages of colleges and universities, accelerate the construction of information technology; promote the supply-side reform of the textile industry around the three-product strategy; improve the mechanism, management, services, channels, etc., to create high-precision products; Resources sharing, complementary advantages, and formation of coordinated development; strengthening the construction of industrial clusters, attracting foreign textile companies to invest.

Gao Yong, secretary of the Party Committee of China National Textile and Apparel Council, introduced the situation of China's textile industry and its hope for Shaanxi textile industry. He said that the development trend of textile enterprises is that the order production capacity will be concentrated to large enterprises and the large-scale textile enterprise industry chain will be expanded to both ends to complete the control of raw materials and markets. The rise of the concept of large fiber requires the vigorous development of industrial textiles.

At the forum, Dr. Yao Mu, honorary president of Xi'an Engineering University, and Sun Runjun, deputy dean of the School of Textiles and Materials, reported on the revitalization of the Shaanxi textile industry, and proposed to extend the industrial chain to upgrade product quality, effectively tap the history and culture, and integrate culture and art into textile products. Increase cooperation between industry, academia and research, collaborative innovation, military-civilian integration to form a supporting system, and achieve development ideas and strategies such as product diversification and differentiation.

The forum also awarded the first “Top Ten Innovative Figures (Units) in the Textile Industry”, “Top Ten Leading Figures (Units)”, “Top Ten Craftsmen” and “Top Ten Excellent Managers” in Shaanxi Province. The inauguration ceremony of “Shaanxi New Fiber Innovation Alliance” and “Shaanxi Province New Textile Machinery Innovation Alliance” was established. At the same time, Xi'an Engineering University and Shaanxi Changling Textile Electromechanical Technology Co., Ltd. signed a "four main body and one united" school and enterprise to build a new research and development platform - Shaanxi Province Intelligent Textile Equipment Research Institute cooperation agreement.