The Webinar on the Development of Global Textile & Fashion Industries in the Post-Pandemic Era was convened successfully by the Research Institute of International People-to-People and Cultural Exchanges for Textile Industry and the Belt and Road Alliance of Textile Higher Education on November 11th.

The webinar is themed with "gathering wisdom online to seek common development". Taking the impact of the Covid-19 on the global textile and fashion industry as the perspective, the webinar is staged to discuss new problems and challenges and to identify new solutions, opportunities and development models in this field. More than 20 experts and professors from nine countries and regions, including the United Kingdom, the United States, Russia, India, Pakistan, Cambodia, Kenya, Serbia and Romania, as well as relevant leaders, scholars, enterprise representatives, teachers and students representatives from domestic and foreign textile industry chain. In total, more than 100 people attended the online webinar and delivered speeches and exchanged ideas.

President Xu Weilin said at the webinar that the current Covid-19 crisis has not yet been resolved and the international situation is tumultuous. The development of the textile industry is facing difficulties. As such, we need to establish a sense of a community of a shared future, collaborate with each other and seek common development. The global textile and apparel universities and enterprises should further deepen the mutual exchanges and cooperation and make joint efforts to intensify cooperation in the fields such as talent cultivation, scientific research, cultural and people-to-people exchanges and university-enterprise collaboration, and continue to expand cooperation scope by leveraging the advantages of the international platforms in resources sharing and win-win cooperation. We can further improve international cooperation, upgrade patterns of teaching and education, and blaze new trails in the industry. In the end, President Xu said that WTU is ready to work with all of the partners to create more industrial value and make more industrial breakthroughs via its international cooperation programs. With joint efforts, we can buck the trend, tide over the current challenges, and shape a better future for the global textile and fashion industries and higher education sector in the post-pandemic era.

It is known to all that the webinar is held at a special time. COVID-19, which caught us all by surprise, has posed unprecedented difficulties to all industries around the globe. Through opportunities such as holding this webinar, WTU will actively build platforms and bridges for Chinese and foreign scholars and staffs of the textile industry to exchange information, learn from each other, strengthen exchanges and deepen cooperation, and jointly build a future-oriented "global textile community with a shared future". At the same time, WTU also provides "Chinese plan" and "Chinese wisdom" for the post-epidemic development of the world textile fashion industry. During the webinar, Ms. Stephanie Dick, CEO of the Textile Institute and heads of the European Textile University Union also sent videos to wish the webinar a full success.