Green innovation—the golden key of the sustainable development of light industry

With Chinese social and economical development entering new normal, the constraints of resources and energy, the seriousness of environmental pollution, the degradation of ecosystm, the increasing contradiction between development and population, resource and environment became the bottleneck of the sustainable development of Chinese society and economy. Light industry, as the link between green production mode and green consumption mode, was required to adhere to the "green" principle and emphasize green innovation. Chinese government took great efforts on environmental protection. Green production notion changed from the end control of pollution and emission on standard, pollutant recovery and recycling, "source" governance to " life cylce" clean production and ecological industry. The mode was designed as reference to zones of industries such as sugar production, paper making and food production. The future light manufacturing industry is personalized and modularized green top desigh. Green cultivation driving industry development is the main direction in the future.