On September 22, 2017 Shaanxi Textile Summit Forum opened at Xi'an University of Engineering. The theme of this forum is to focus on the Belt and Road Initiative and revitalize the Shaanxi textile economy. Nearly 200 people from textile, textile machinery enterprises, colleges, institutions, and media in Shaanxi Province participated in this forum.

Is the only university in western China that features textile and clothing. Gao Ling, President of Xi'an University of Engineering, introduced the history of Xi'an University of Engineering and the achievements in science and technology. After more than 100 years of development, the school has formed a textile engineering center, textile machinery, and textile information control around the textile industry chain and technological needs , Apparel design and engineering, textile economic management as an extension of the five major textile discipline groups, forming a complete textile discipline chain.

The reporter learned from the forum that, under the background of the “One Belt and One Road”, our province's geographical advantages have become increasingly prominent, bringing opportunities to the textile industry. Participants hoped that our province can take advantage of many colleges and universities to accelerate the construction of informatization; promote the supply-side reform of the textile industry around the three-product strategy; improve mechanisms, management, services, channels, etc. to create highly sophisticated products; promote Resource sharing, complementary advantages, and formation of coordinated development; strengthening the construction of industrial clusters and attracting investment from foreign textile companies.

Gao Yong, Secretary of the Party Committee of China Textile Industry Federation, introduced the situation of China's textile industry and the hope for Shaanxi's textile industry in the theme report on the spot. He said that the development trend of textile enterprises is that order production capacity is concentrated to large enterprises, and the industrial chain of large textile enterprises is expanded to both ends to complete the control of raw materials and markets. The rise of the concept of large fibers requires the vigorous development of industrial textiles.

At the forum, the reports of Academician Yao Mu, Honorary President of Xi'an University of Engineering, and Sun Runjun, Vice President of the School of Textiles and Materials, proposed to extend Shaanxi's textile industry, extend the product chain to upgrade product grades, effectively explore historical culture, and integrate cultural art into textile products Increasing cooperation in production, education, research and application, collaborative innovation, and military-civilian integration to form a supporting system to achieve product diversification and differentiation and other development ideas and strategies.

The forum also awarded the first Shaanxi Province "Top Ten Innovative Characters (Units) in the Textile Industry", "Top Ten Leaders (Units)", "Top Ten Craftsmen", "Top Ten Excellent Managers" and other awards, and held Inauguration ceremony of "Shaanxi New Fiber Innovation Alliance" and "Shaanxi New Textile Machinery Innovation Alliance". At the same time, Xi'an University of Technology and Shaanxi Changling Textile Electromechanical Technology Co., Ltd. signed a "four main bodies and one joint" school-enterprise cooperation to build a new research and development platform-Shaanxi Intelligent Textile Equipment Research Institute Cooperation Agreement.