National Fiber Quality Monitoring Work Symposium Held
On March 20, the National Fiber Quality Monitoring Work Symposium was successfully held in Hefei, Anhui Province. The symposium fully implemented the deployments from the Central Economic Work Conference and the National Market Supervision Work Conference. It systematically reviewed the achievements during the 14th Five-Year Plan period up to 2025, accurately analyzed the current development situation, clarified goals and directions, and comprehensively deployed key tasks for fiber quality monitoring in the inaugural year of the 15th Five-Year Plan. Liu Min, Chief Engineer of the State Administration for Market Regulation, attended the meeting and delivered a speech, while Du Yuejun, Director of the China Fiber Quality Monitoring Center, presented the work report.
Achievements During the 14th Five-Year Plan Period Laid a Solid Foundation for Industrial Development
Since the start of the 14th Five-Year Plan, especially by the end of 2025, the national fiber quality monitoring system has achieved remarkable results:
- Enhanced Inspection Efficiency and Quality: Efficiently completed cotton notarial inspection of 8.31 million tons and nearly 100,000 tons of non-cotton fibers annually. Notarial inspection varieties expanded for the first time in a decade, with down, yak wool, and fresh silkworm cocoons officially included in the statutory inspection scope.
- Robust Quality and Safety Baseline: Monitored over 60,000 batches of various fibers and fiber products, covering nearly 50,000 acres of cotton planting areas. The inspection pass rate for student uniforms and bedding fiber products remained stable at over 94%.
- Strong Industrial Support: Completed the "pairing enhancement" of capabilities for the first batch of 31 institutions, integrating party building with business operations, providing solid support for serving national macro-control, regulating the fiber market order, and empowering high-quality development of the fiber and textile industry.
Planning for the 15th Five-Year Plan: Clarifying New Development Goals
The symposium emphasized that 2026 is the starting year of the 15th Five-Year Plan and a crucial juncture for building a quality-strong nation. The entire system will focus on core objectives such as supporting supervision, ensuring safety, empowering industries, and facilitating circulation. Key focuses include:
- Strengthening Notarial Inspection Defenses: Implementing detailed cotton notarial inspections, improving dynamic scheduling mechanisms ("people follow the cotton"), serving the new three-year cotton target price reform, promoting new variety notarial inspections, and cracking down on counterfeit and substandard practices.
- Safeguarding Public Safety: Deepening full-process monitoring of main production area fibers, closely monitoring key categories like student uniforms and bedding fiber products, implementing systems for reporting non-compliant items, and promoting efficient integration between monitoring, regulation, and law enforcement.
- Enhancing Industrial Technology Empowerment: Accelerating revisions to mandatory standards such as "Raw Wool" and "Basic Safety Technical Requirements for Reclaimed Fibers", establishing fiber standard samples and metrology technical committees, restoring operations at the National Fiber Metrology Station, and striving for international standard-setting authority.
- Promoting Green Industrial Transformation: Focusing on new productivity, tackling core testing technologies, promoting high-throughput automated equipment, exploring domestic alternatives to imported instruments, enhancing research and development of recycled fibers and functional textiles, and driving the high-end and green development of the fiber and textile industry.
Uniting Efforts to Promote High-Quality Industry Development
The symposium called on the entire system to seize opportunities, take practical actions, and serve the overall market supervision framework through high-quality fiber quality monitoring work. For the broader fiber and textile enterprises, this means a more regulated market environment, stronger technological support, and broader development space. In the future, enterprises can strengthen collaboration with the fiber quality monitoring system to jointly elevate industry standards, reinforce quality control, and achieve high-quality industrial development.
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