Environmental Protection Standards: Market Intervention

In October 2008, two global conferences on environmental issues were held in Beijing. First, the Danish climate forum was held in China. It tried to make China understand how serious the global warming is now and what kind of responsibility China should undertake.

The contents of these two conferences involve China's textile and garment industry. In fact, as a pillar industry of China's national economy, the textile and garment industry, which provides a large number of employment opportunities and has serious pollution, has become a focus of discussion among the participants.

At the China Danish forum, experts, scholars, government officials and market participants from developed markets hope to "make in China" energy saving and emission reduction. On the macro level, they hope that Chinese textile and garment enterprises can promise environmental responsibility.

At the global supplier conference of WAL-MART, the environmental protection appeal initiated by the downstream retail enterprises requires a certain environmental protection standard from the Chinese clothing suppliers. The standard seems very strict, and WAL-MART seems to be "serious".

In less than a month, from the moral to the market spontaneously, and for China made, people from all walks of life frequently issued "pressure signals", hoping that China can start environmental responsibility from the textile and garment industry.

In particular, WAL-MART's green supply chain plan (details are reported on October 31), and the information it brings to China's textile and garment industry is that the trend of global sustainable development is obvious, and China's environmental protection must be up to standard.

The role it tries to exert is that China's suppliers must enter the "rigid standard" access stage from the environmental awareness stage in the past.

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The setting of entry threshold for downstream terminals will undoubtedly make Chinese textile and garment industry really consider the direction and significance of sustainable development.

When the main retail market starts to favor green products, Chinese textile enterprises must also meet the corresponding requirements.

In the past, China's textile and garment industry realized the explosive growth of quantity growth as the main production mode by means of cheap production costs. In this process, the environmental pollution problem also became increasingly prominent along with the expansion of industrial scale.

As a result, the sustainable development of industry is frequently mentioned.

Sun Huaibin, director of the China Textile Economic Research Center, said: "the textile industry is currently a very important livelihood undertaking in China. This industry will surely continue to develop along with China's economic development, so sustainable development is an unavoidable problem.

Among the problems, our first concern is the coordination of resources, the second is environmental friendliness, and the third is social responsibility.

In these three fields, the textile industry has done a lot of work.

We are committed to the sustainable development of this industry. "

However, considering the reality of China's current economic development and the ineffective supervision measures, for a long time after the first advocacy of sustainable development, China's manufacturing and environmental protection problems, including China's textile and garment industry, are still very serious.

In response, Li Liyan, deputy director of the Department of climate change, told reporters at the China Danish climate forum that the situation of inadequate supervision was mainly caused by the uneven development of various regions in China.

"Our country has been talking about policies and speaking standards. It is in line with developed countries and European standards.

How about specific implementation?

How big is the government's regulatory capacity?

This is very doubtful. "

Li Liyan thinks, "China is different from many other countries, especially in developed countries.

Compared with the national conditions of the developed countries, our biggest difference is that our country's regional development is very uneven.

We decided that a policy could not be applied to all regions.

Therefore, there are always some fluctuations and gaps in the implementation process.

It is not without this mechanism. It is difficult to implement this mechanism. "

Thus, it seems that the sustainable development of China's textile and garment industry is not without standards or standards are not strict enough, and more is the implementation level.

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In the current situation of the sustainable development of the domestic textile and garment industry, it is difficult to carry out the standards. The market forces represented by WAL-MART are advocating the "green supply system" and putting forward specific green entry rules. This will make it possible for China's textile and garment industry to solve policies and standards.

"If the policies and standards of the country are difficult to carry out for various reasons, the advocacy from the terminal market will certainly promote the sustainable development of China's textile and garment industry.

Because the standard production enterprises in the retail market are impossible not to comply with, it is related to their survival or not. "

Experts said, "WAL-MART's green supply chain plan reflects the social value of enterprises, and has a pioneering significance for the long-term development of industry and the promotion of social environmental protection.

The remaining problem is the implementation of WAL-MART.

The driving force at the market level has a positive effect on the environmental protection production of upstream manufacturing enterprises, because "market orientation" is also the development direction of upstream enterprises.

However, for WAL-MART, when importing green access standards, it also needs to weigh the interests between suppliers and consumers again.

"I know that we have many demands on suppliers, especially when the economic situation is bad.

In this case, WAL-MART can cut its gross margins, increase efficiency of manufacturers, or consumers pay more money, which are all possible choices. "

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