Textile Industry: Exploring And Solving The Dilemma Of Corporate Profits And Social Responsibility

What is the social responsibility of textile enterprises? In the view of Sun Ruizhe, vice president of China Textile Industry Association, the social responsibility of textile enterprises first is the protection of laborers' rights and interests.

"Workers are the most important and direct stakeholders of an enterprise. How to enable them to enjoy good labor conditions and salaries in the enterprise and find their own development space is the biggest interest concern of workers."

On the one hand, enterprises must pursue their interests and fulfill their social responsibilities on the one hand. This seems to be a contradiction between them. How should we take profits and responsibilities into consideration?

"Enterprises have a cost to implement social responsibility, which depends on how to balance the current cost and long-term interests."

Vice president of China Textile Industry Association

"The increase of workers' wages and the improvement of working environment all involve the increase of the cost of enterprises.

Only by investing more in scientific research, innovation and industrial upgrading can enterprises enhance their ability to create value by enhancing their ability to create value, and ensuring the implementation of corporate social responsibility.

Wang Qiming, chairman of Quanzhou Haitian material Polytron Technologies Inc, said.

"Why is our textile industry losing competitiveness in terms of labor and raw material costs?"

In the view of Yang Donghui, vice president of China Textile Industry Association, textile enterprises fulfill their social responsibilities, protect and enhance their enthusiasm, which is an effective way to further enhance the competitiveness of China's textile industry.

Du Yuzhou, President of the China Textile Industry Association, said at the press conference that the total wages of textile workers increased by 13.96% from January to May this year, while the output per capita increased by 24%. The proportion of workers' wages in unit costs did not rise, but decreased by 9.1%.

"This shows that workers' wage increase does not mean that enterprises must increase their costs, and those enterprises that increase their per capita output value are enterprises that attach importance to social responsibility."

"Responsibility" is also competitiveness.

A few years ago, when foreign people talked about the social responsibility of Chinese enterprises in labor and environment, Chinese textile industry was always prone to be accused of low price competition and sweatshops.

Today, however, the international accusation of China's textile enterprises' social responsibility has gradually disappeared.

This pformation is due to the launch of the 2005 Chinese social responsibility management system (CSC9000T) and the first domestic social responsibility disclosure guidelines for the Chinese textile industry, which regulate the "CSR-GATEs report" of China's textile and garment enterprises. It provides a solution for the textile and garment enterprises to coordinate the social development with economic means, and also establishes a responsible image of China's textile industry in the international supply chain.

A report on the social responsibility of 2010 Chinese textile and garment enterprises held recently

Huang Zhuangfangrong, general manager of Changzhou Xu Rong knitting and dyeing Co., Ltd., has much sympathy for the image of Chinese textile enterprises in recent years.

"Overseas businessmen have a very high demand for corporate social responsibility, and we raise wages and pay more attention to environmental protection. The cost is higher than that of other enterprises, but we are increasingly aware that responsibility is also competitive."

"At an exhibition held in Shanghai in October last year, a Holland buyer saw the logo of our booth with CSR logo, and immediately identified our product, because the CSC9000T project we participated in was more stringent than many foreign certification."

Huang Zhuang Fang Rong said.

Before launching CSC9000T, foreign countries

At present, there are 10 industrial clusters and more than 100 enterprises that have established CSC9000T social responsibility management system. They not only have the solutions to fulfill their social responsibilities, but also respond readily to social responsibility inspection.

"Many people say that social responsibility is a cost and that social responsibility is a burden to enterprises.

However, CSC9000T pilot enterprises have proved with great amount of data that social responsibility construction is a catalyst for enterprises to enhance their competitiveness.

Sun Ruizhe said.

Textile enterprises should further strengthen social responsibility construction

When it comes to corporate social responsibility, the first thing people think of is the treatment of employees.

"CSC9000T embodies the responsibility of enterprises to workers, and now the social responsibility of textile enterprises is gradually expanding from safeguarding labor rights and interests to environmental protection, energy conservation and emission reduction and maintaining fair market competition."

Du Yuzhou said.

"Social responsibility management is the only way to promote the adjustment and revitalization of textile industry and achieve sustainable development. It is also the basic way to promote textile enterprises to reduce costs and increase efficiency, improve product quality and competitiveness, and further strengthen the construction of social responsibility."

At the same time, Sun Ruizhe, director of the office of social responsibility of the China Textile Industry Association, believes that social responsibility is becoming the basic parameter of the industry development trajectory and the main variables of enterprise management and management. This will bring a completely different role to textile enterprises -- opportunities or challenges, and this phenomenon will be more obvious with the reference of social responsibility.

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He said that from the micro level, the textile and garment industry shoulders the responsibility of protecting the rights and interests of workers, equal opportunities and dignity. From the meso level, the textile and garment industry also bears the responsibility of maintaining and improving the environment, improving the effective output rate of resources, and promoting the legalization and civilization of the market and society.

From a macro perspective, the textile and garment industry that absorbs about 20 million people is also responsible for providing, maintaining and promoting employment, protecting people's livelihood and social harmony, stabilizing and optimizing the international supply chain and value chain.

"The important opportunity period of the textile industry in the first 20 years of twenty-first Century, we have to become a textile power from the big textile country, and the next 10 years are very important."

Du Yuzhou said that the textile industry should continue to fulfill its social responsibilities, pay attention to environmental protection, and realize the dream of achieving a strong textile and technological power, brand power and sustainable development by promoting talent building and brand building.

"Our goal is to contribute to the building of a harmonious society by building a harmonious enterprise, a harmonious industrial cluster, a harmonious industry, and a harmonious global supply chain."

Du Yuzhou said.