Recently, textile clusters such as Guangzhou Dongxiqiao and Keqiao, Zhejiang have successively carried out environmental governance investigations.

Strengthening of environmental governance everywhere

“Going shoulder to shoulder to overcome difficulties, all functional departments and enterprises must take their responsibilities and increase efforts to promote the improvement and improvement of the textile printing and dyeing industry.” On August 14, Xiqiao Town, Foshan City, Guangdong Province held a meeting on the improvement and improvement of the textile printing and dyeing industry . Zhang Guoxin, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Xiqiao Town, emphasized that it is necessary to strengthen the law enforcement of the textile printing and dyeing industry to further protect the safety of the ecological environment and the health of the people.

It is understood that Xiqiao Town has recently issued the "Xiqiao Town Ecological Environment Supervision Office's Special Law Enforcement Action Plan for Key Rivers and Surrounding Industrial Parks" and "Xiqiao Town Village-level Industrial Park Renovation and Improvement 100-day Tackling Action Plan", continuing Standardize the supervision of enterprises in village-level industrial parks, including the textile printing and dyeing industry, and comprehensively investigate and deal with problems such as unlicensed operations, environmental pollution, safety hazards, and fire-fighting hazards of enterprises in village-level industrial parks.

It is worth mentioning that Xiqiao Town also encourages the whole people to participate in environmental protection supervision and management, and formulated the "Xiqiao Town Environmental Violation Reporting and Reward Measures (Trial)". According to the "Measures", citizens can report 9 major types of environmental violations, and if the report of environmental violations or clues of violations within the scope of their duties are verified by the Xiqiao Town’s ecological and environmental authorities, they can be based on the whistleblower’s Apply for rewards for their reports, among which, the maximum reward can be 200,000 yuan.

On August 21, Keqiao District, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province, launched a "low-scattered and messy-pollution" enterprise rectification joint law enforcement action to crack down on environmental violations. In this joint enforcement action, a total of 22 "low-scattered and disorderly pollution" enterprises were shut down. In this joint enforcement action, the Keqiao District Ecological Environment Branch and other relevant departments dispatched nearly 200 people to participate. Relevant departments said that in the next step, Keqiao District will resolutely carry out the remediation actions to the end, eliminate the illegal production and environmental pollution problems of "low-scattered and disorderly pollution" enterprises from the source, and strictly prevent the resurgence of "low-scattered and disorderly pollution" enterprises.

In Jiangsu, environmental law enforcement actions are more blooming. A few days ago, the relevant person in charge of the Xinzhuang Town Party Committee member of Changshu led the environmental protection and safety supervision lines to carry out surprise inspections on the printing and dyeing enterprises in the jurisdiction and inspected the operation of environmental protection facilities on the spot. It is understood that since this year, the town has carried out 201 law enforcement inspections and issued 205 law enforcement documents; 73 cases have been filed and closed with a fine of 2.59 million yuan. In Luzhi Town, Suzhou City, the environmental protection staff of Luzhi Town carried out a comprehensive rectification of the exhaust gas of the setting machine of the printing and dyeing enterprise, and at the same time introduced a special rectification plan for the exhaust gas of the setting machine. In order to strengthen the implementation of work, Shengze Town set up a special water environment governance and improvement leading group this year, which consists of four working groups, namely, the tackle group, the law enforcement group, the inspection group, and the unannounced visit group, to coordinate the battle for water environment governance and improvement. As of July 31, Shengze dispatched 4,994 law enforcement officers to inspect 2,497 companies. Since June, 22 companies involved in water have been punished, with a fine of more than 8.19 million yuan.

Green development companies benefit

The determination of environmental protection will not be weakened, and the intensity of environmental protection inspectors will not be weakened-this is the current and future environmental protection situation. For printing and dyeing enterprises, green environmental protection has changed from "icing on the cake" to "essential" and has become a rigid demand for practicing high-quality development.

However, some people in the industry believe that the soaring raw material prices this year have stretched the textile industry. If environmental protection costs continue to rise, textile companies can be said to be "squeezed at both ends". How can it be "difficult"?

Obviously, many companies regard environmental protection as a cost or even an additional burden. This means that "environmental protection" requires extra "moral sentiments" from entrepreneurs to finally achieve it. But in fact, a reporter from the "China Textile News" found that the pioneers in the environmental "storm" were mostly determined to invest and practice out of consideration for the long-term interests of the company.

Since its establishment, Wuhu Fuchun Dyeing and Weaving Co., Ltd. has always adhered to the tenet of science and technology, green, professionalism and fashion. In addition to introducing a variety of advanced technologies in wastewater and waste gas treatment, the company has also established an online wastewater monitoring system and a boiler flue gas online monitoring system, and is connected to the environmental protection department to realize the information management of pollutant discharge. The company also hires a qualified environmental monitoring agency to regularly conduct third-party monitoring of the company's pollutant emissions. In the 2021 semi-annual report released a few days ago, Fuchun Dyeing and Weaving performance is gratifying. In the first half of the year, the company achieved operating income of 925 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 56.48%; net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies was 103 million yuan, a significant year-on-year increase of 318.87%.

Zhejiang Yingfeng Technology Co., Ltd. also recently released the 2021 semi-annual report. During the period, the company's main business income was 450 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 50.02%; the net profit attributable to the parent was 56.055 million yuan, an increase of 82.03% year-on-year. In the semi-annual report, Yingfeng Technology specifically pointed out that energy conservation, environmental protection and clean production have brought the company a market advantage. The company has always centered on the production concept of cleaner production and green environmental protection, relying on technological innovation, focusing on the optimization of product structure and process technology to reduce "three wastes" emissions, and achieve pollution source and process control, by introducing intelligent equipment and adopting automated management systems Ensure clean production, realize energy saving and emission reduction by means of reuse of water and waste heat recovery of waste gas and sewage, improve the end-of-treatment level of the "three wastes", and ensure environmental performance.

Environmental protection upgrade is imperative

In the process of energy saving, emission reduction, and green development, leading printing and dyeing companies have taken the lead and successfully transformed the environmentally friendly and sustainable base into a new driving force for corporate development. In the first half of 2021, the output of printing and dyeing fabrics of printing and dyeing enterprises above designated size in my country was 28.743 billion meters, a sharp increase of 25.93% year-on-year and an increase of 20.41% year-on-year.

In this regard, some industry experts pointed out that, in a sense, strict environmental supervision is also a directional guide for the textile industry, allowing textile printing and dyeing enterprises to be baptized in this green "storm". Therefore, companies should use a positive attitude to look at the industry reshuffle triggered by environmental protection inspections. In the process of shuffling, it may also bring new opportunities, survival of the fittest and survival of the fittest.

For the future, the China National Textile and Apparel Council pointed out in the "Fourteenth Five-Year" Green Development Guidance for the Textile Industry that printing and dyeing enterprises should promote energy optimization and improvement, actively promote low-carbon development, strengthen pollution reduction efforts, and protect the industrial ecology. Safety. For example, in terms of cleaner production technology, we can actively develop and promote high-efficiency short-process pre-treatment, alkali-free or low-alkali pre-treatment, low-salt or salt-free reactive dye dyeing, biomass pigment dyeing and other low-chemical printing and dyeing technologies; On the one hand, it can actively develop and promote water-saving printing and dyeing processing technologies such as supercritical carbon dioxide dyeing, reactive dye non-aqueous medium dyeing, open-width continuous dyeing of knitted fabrics, continuous dyeing of polyester fabrics with less water, and disperse dye-free printing; in the treatment of water pollution In terms of materials, R&D and promotion of advanced treatment and reuse technologies for printing and dyeing wastewater such as recycling of salt-containing dyeing wastewater, advanced oxidation, and membrane treatment technologies; research and development of advanced treatment and reuse technologies for low-cost and high-recycling printing and dyeing wastewater, and near-zero discharge and shaping of wastewater Efficient collection and treatment of machine exhaust gas and waste heat reuse technology.

Although there is a long way to go, the future can be expected. Textile printing and dyeing enterprises from attaching importance to environmental protection to applying environmental protection technology and upgrading environmental protection equipment may have pains in the short term, but they will eventually gain applause and the market.