"Gather at the Chain Business Festival to Discuss the Cotton Market" — The WDD Textile Industry Chain Innovation and Development Forum Successfully Held

September 8, 2026, the "Gather at the Chain Business Festival, Discuss the Cotton Market"—WDD Textile Industry Chain Innovation Development Forum, hosted by WDD, was successfully held at the IBI Digital Economy Headquarters. The forum focused on core topics of the cotton and textile industry chain, bringing together upstream and downstream enterprises, industry experts, and trade service providers to jointly analyze current market trends, streamline production and sales channels, and explore opportunities for industry innovation. The forum was hosted by Li Guangdong, General Manager of the WDD Cotton Textile Industry Chain.

This forum aimed to analyze the market trends of the cotton and textile industries, examine fluctuations in raw material supply and demand, address pain points in industry transformation, and bring together upstream and downstream enterprises, industry experts, and trade service providers. It sought to streamline production and sales channels, explore opportunities for industry innovation, assist enterprises in grasping market dynamics, mitigate operational risks, and foster industry collaboration. The goal was to establish a platform for resource sharing and mutually beneficial industry exchange and cooperation.

The attending guests discussed various core topics, including the global cotton supply and demand landscape, the current state of the domestic cotton industry, climate change, recent wide fluctuations in cotton prices, market uncertainties, and issues related to production, demand, and distribution. Drawing on their long-term observations and first-hand research in their respective fields, they shared professional insights that were both forward-looking and practically applicable. As an industrial internet platform under IBI focusing on vertical fields such as papermaking and packaging, as well as smart textiles, WDD further clarified its direction for service upgrades targeting the textile industry chain during this forum. Moving forward, the platform will launch more specialized matchmaking events focusing on areas such as fiber materials, intelligent manufacturing, and the circular economy, gradually building a digital service system that covers the entire textile chain and promoting the continuous evolution of the industrial internet from information exchange to order-driven and intelligent manufacturing collaboration.