Future of China's textile industry

摘要

This is the edited version of a speech delivered on September 12 at the 2007 ITMA world textile forum in Munich. It discusses the general trend of development in the Chinese textile industry and industrial upgrading Textile industry is very important in a close-knit relationship with the people's livelihood, a highly-internationalised sector in process of industrialisation in China. Textile and clothing has been playing a very prominent "pulley" role in pulling on progress of various sectors of national economy. In 2006, the fibre processing volume totalled 30.7 million tons, employing 20 million people in the whole textile industry in China. To be more exact, Chinese man-made fibre production reached 20.25 million tons, cotton yarn 17.4 million tons, and textile and clothing export came up to US$147 billion; The import of various raw materials, textile chemicals and machinery added up to US$31.7 billion.