Abstract:As a typical representative of promoting supply side structural reform in China"s traditional manufacturing industry, green upgrading of the textile industry is a new driving force for China to build a manufacturing power and promote high-quality economic development under the new development pattern. Based on the perspective of carbon unlocking, on the basis of accounting for carbon emissions and carbon sinks of the textile industry in 30 provinces, autonomous regions and cities (except Tibet) in China from 2010 to 2019, the degree of carbon lock-in of China"s textile industry is investigated with the carbon overload rate, and the partial least squares structural equation model is further used to explore the path of digital enabling China"s textile industry to get rid of carbon lock-in and achieve green upgrading. The results show that: ① During the study period, the degree of carbon locking of the textile industry in 30 provinces and cities in China is increasing, and the degree of carbon locking of the textile industry in Zhejiang, Shaanxi and Jiangsu is the highest. ② Compared with the textile industry, textile clothing and other fiber products, the degree of carbon locking of leather, fur, down and related products is significantly higher. ③ The carbon locking status of the textile industry in 30 provinces, autonomous regions and cities across the country can be divided into 6 types according to carbon emissions, carbon overloads and carbon overload rates. The textile industry in Zhejiang, Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Anhui, Beijing and Xinjiang provinces, autonomous regions and cities is a high carbon locking type with high carbon emissions, high carbon overloads and high carbon overload rates, and the pressure on carbon emission reduction is the largest. ④ Digital energy enabling technology innovation and system innovation can not only directly promote the green upgrading of China"s textile industry by carbon unlocking, but also indirectly promote it by optimizing the energy structure and industrial structure of the textile industry. System innovation plays a significant role in strengthening the carbon unlocking and green upgrading of the digital energy enabling textile industry.