“WTU contributed to the recently-launchedTianwen-1, or, more specifically, to the buffering device. This is a milestone for us.” saidPeng Yuyuan, President ofWTU, in an interview with the media on June 25th.

Peng addedthat today's textile industry is no longer limited to “making clothes and hats”. Instead, textile materials and technologies have been extended to aerospace, biomedical and other high-tech fields, and the industry now is of advanced technologies, environmental-friendliness and fashion. And there are many achievements in the cooperation of textiles and other disciplines, such as artificial blood vessels, heart valves, skin and so on, to which textile has contributed in materials and processing.

During the epidemic, medical and health protective textiles, represented by masks and protectivegears, became the focus of global attention.WTU mobilized various resources to fight the epidemic. For example, a group of academicians “gathered urgently” to find solutions to a shortage of melt-blown nonwovens and provide decision-making consultation for the Ministry of Industry and Information. A group of experts carried out researches in the laboratory and developed new high-efficiency protective materials, test strips for harmful substances and other products.

Peng said that aiming for “modern textile, mass textile and advanced textile”, WTU has formed a discipline layout with textile as the head, science and engineering as the body, and humanities/arts and economics/management as the two wings. WTU will continue to focus on cultivating high-caliber, industry-oriented and innovative talents and the backbone of modern textile industry, thus providing strong talent and intellectual support for China's high-quality development and the upgrading of Hubei’s textile industry.