National Development and Reform Commission: "During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, we should guide light industry, textile, and other industries to transfer in an orderly manner to the central-western and northeastern regions."

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26/12/2025
The Industrial Development Department of the National Development and Reform Commission issued an article titled "Vigorously Promoting the Optimization and Upgrading of Traditional Industries". The article points out that the key to industries such as light industry and textiles, which have large-scale and wide coverage, lies in reducing costs, expanding production, improving quality, and increasing efficiency. The light industry and textile industries have a large scale, a wide range of products, and play an important role in ensuring people's livelihood, market prosperity, expanding exports, and job creation. During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, it is necessary to accelerate product innovation, enrich product categories and supply characteristics, achieve an increase in variety, improve quality, and create brands. Support enterprises in equipment upgrades and technological transformations, accelerate the application of advanced and applicable technologies, promote digital transformation and green upgrading, and continuously reduce costs and increase efficiency. Carry out a quality improvement campaign for key consumer goods, improve mandatory product energy efficiency standards and safety standards, ensure the effective implementation of mandatory national standards, strengthen quality support and standard guidance. Promote brand building, host China Brand Day activities in high quality, continuously carry out brand creation and promotion guidance, enhance the visibility and influence of Chinese brands. Improve the collaboration mechanism for the orderly transfer of industries domestically, and guide industries such as light industry and textiles to shift orderly to the western and northeastern regions.