In the "Notice on Recommending the Third Batch of Green Manufacturing List" recently released by the General Office of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the green supply chain section includes textile and clothing for the first time in the application scope, encouraging core manufacturing enterprises with strong representativeness, influence, strong operational strength, and a solid foundation in green supply chain management in the industry to apply for green supply chain management demonstration enterprises.

In recent years, the China Textile Industry Federation has taken "technology, green, and fashion" as the new positioning of the textile industry, advocating for the industry to focus on green raw materials, green design, green production, and circular applications, and continuously promote the green development of the textile industry. However, there is still significant room for improvement in the green development of the textile industry. In practice, it is necessary to continuously improve the concept, seize the key points, and urgently seek greater breakthroughs in the development of green supply chains.

1、 Innovate management methods, strengthen collaborative transformation

With the rapid development of the textile industry, it has brought about a large amount of energy resource consumption and pollutant emissions. According to environmental statistics data in 2012, among the 41 industrial industries surveyed, the textile industry has discharged 2.37 billion tons of wastewater, ranking third; The textile industry ranks fourth in terms of COD emissions among industrial industries.

In order to break the constraints of resources and environment, accelerate the green development of the textile industry, while strengthening government regulation, it is also necessary to innovate environmental management methods, especially to strengthen the application of market-oriented and socialized methods, form a collaborative management mechanism of government regulation, market driven, and public participation, and play a combination of punches to promote the green transformation and development of enterprises. Green supply chain management is an innovative market based environmental management approach that relies on the supply relationship between core enterprises and upstream and downstream enterprises. With procurement as the link, it drives the green level of upstream and downstream enterprises to jointly improve through the positive incentives formed by green supplier management, green procurement and other work carried out by core enterprises.

As for the textile industry, its long industrial chain has a significant impact on the ecological environment generated by the manufacturing process; The seasonal characteristics of terminal products are obvious, and they are consumables with high social demand. By creating a green supply chain and leveraging the driving role of enterprises, especially leading enterprises, a pattern of "point by line, line by surface" can be formed. Environmental management can be carried out in the design, production, circulation, sales, recycling, reuse, treatment and other aspects of textile products, while promoting the transformation of behavior among designers, suppliers, producers, logistics providers, distributors, consumers, and other stakeholders, Furthermore, an environmentally friendly textile production and consumption model is formed to reduce the ecological and environmental impact of the entire lifecycle of textiles.

2、 Improving the institutional environment and guiding enterprises to vigorously practiceIn recent years, the country has issued a series of policy standards such as the "Industrial Green Development Plan (2016-2020)", "Implementation Guidelines for Green Manufacturing Engineering (2016-2020)", "Textile Industry Development Plan (2016-2020)", "Notice on Carrying out Green Manufacturing System Construction", and "Green Supply Chain Management Guidelines for Green Manufacturing Enterprises". It has implemented support projects such as green manufacturing demonstrations and actively introduced