The government work report released on March 5, 2026, has drawn a clear blueprint for the economic and social development of our country. Among them, many deployments are deeply related to the textile industry, ranging from boosting consumption, fostering new quality productivity, to rectifying the market environment and promoting green development. These have pointed out the direction for the transformation and upgrading of the textile industry and brought multiple policy dividends.
The policy of exchanging old consumer goods for new ones has activated new momentum in the textile consumption market. The work report has arranged for 250 billion yuan of ultra-long-term special treasury bonds to support the policy of exchanging old consumer goods for new ones, injecting impetus into the recovery of the textile consumption market. Previous pilot projects in some regions have shown that including home textiles in the subsidy scope has led to a significant driving effect. A national policy is expected to promote the full inclusion of textile and apparel and home textile categories in the exchange system. On the one hand, it will reduce the consumption costs of residents, stimulate their willingness to replace, and release consumption potential. On the other hand, it will encourage enterprises to accelerate product iteration, improve quality and design, and promote the recycling and reuse of old textiles, forming a "consumption - recycling - reuse" cycle model. The implementation of the income increase plan for urban and rural residents will further tap into the textile consumption demand in the lower-tier markets.
Cultivate new quality productivity to promote the high-end, intelligent and green development of the textile industry. Cultivating new quality productivity is one of the core deployments in the work report, which proposes to build emerging pillar industries, cultivate future industries and deepen the expansion of "AI +", providing a core handle for the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries. In terms of intelligent transformation, deepen the integration of "AI +" and the textile industry, promote enterprises to achieve digital transformation of the entire production, design and sales chain, realize flexible production through industrial Internet and AI technology, and optimize pattern design with AI databases. In terms of high-end development, the textile industry can rely on the development of emerging industries, develop functional and high-tech textile materials, and expand industrial application scenarios. The goal of an average annual growth rate of over 7% in the total R&D expenditure of the whole society will provide a favorable policy environment for the technological research and development of textile enterprises.
Regulating the "inward-looking" competition to standardize the market development order of the textile industry. The work report proposes to deeply rectify the "inward-looking" competition and build a unified national market, which is of great significance to the textile industry. This will drive the industry to shift from "competing on output and price" to "competing on design, quality and innovation". Through capacity regulation, outdated capacity will be eliminated and low-level repetitive construction will be avoided; the market will be standardized by standards and quality supervision, encouraging enterprises to focus on niche markets and build core competitiveness. The construction of a unified national market will break down local protection and market segmentation, allowing high-quality textile products to circulate freely across the country and form a healthy industry competition pattern.
The green development strategy leads the textile industry towards low-carbon transformation. The work report sets up a national low-carbon transformation fund, cultivates new growth points such as hydrogen energy, and aims to reduce carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP by 17% cumulatively during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, which charts the course for the low-carbon transformation of the textile industry. At the raw material end, policies encourage enterprises to research and develop the use of bio-based green materials, recycled fibers and other environmentally friendly raw materials; at the production end, the upgrading of the energy structure will reduce production carbon emissions; the establishment of the national low-carbon transformation fund will provide financial support for energy-saving renovations and low-carbon technology research and development. Meanwhile, the improvement of the recycling system for old textile products will promote the industry to achieve resource recycling and utilization.
Expanding opening up and rural revitalization will expand the development space for the textile industry. The work report proposes to further expand the opening-up pilot program and comprehensively promote rural revitalization and scientifically and orderly advance new urbanization, providing opportunities for the textile industry to expand its development space. In terms of opening up to the outside world, the textile industry will rely on a higher level of opening up to further expand the international market. The opening up of the value-added telecommunications sector will promote the development of cross-border e-commerce in the textile industry and provide more convenient digital trade channels for textile enterprises to "go global". In terms of rural revitalization and new urbanization, the land contract policy will stabilize the supply of textile raw materials; in the process of new urbanization, the urbanization of rural migrant population will bring new textile consumption demands.
Promote the upgrade of "cross-border e-commerce + overseas warehouses" to consolidate new advantages in textile exports. The report emphasizes expanding high-level opening up and proposes to promote the expansion and upgrade of the "cross-border e-commerce + overseas warehouses" model in a standardized and orderly manner, providing policy support for stabilizing the scale and optimizing the structure of textile and garment exports. Relying on the layout of overseas warehouses, textile enterprises can significantly shorten the delivery cycle and enhance the terminal consumption experience, effectively responding to fluctuations in international logistics and trade barriers. In the future, the industry needs to make good use of policy dividends, improve compliance management and strengthen brand operation in the process of global layout, and rely on the complete domestic industrial chain and manufacturing advantages to accelerate participation in the reconstruction of the global medium and high-end supply chain.
Many of the arrangements in the 2026 government work report are highly consistent with the development of the textile industry, empowering the industry from five dimensions: consumption, innovation, market, green development, and space. The textile industry needs to seize the policy opportunities, take the cultivation of new quality productivity as the core, promote high-end, intelligent, and green transformation, and expand domestic and foreign markets with the help of policy dividends to achieve a leap from traditional manufacturing to modern industries.
