subject: Apparel Fabrics Industry With Large Space For Development [print this page] China is a fabric of the consuming nations, last year China exported 41.2 billion U.S. dollars apparel, domestic apparel demand reached 4000 billion yuan, consumption of fabric more than 25 billion meters. In 2001 the world's per capita fiber consumption of 7.93 kilograms, according to the International Cotton Advisory Committee predicted that 2005 will reach 8.6 kilograms, while China's per capita fiber consumption in 2001 only 6.5 kilograms, and the developed countries there is a big gap. In developed countries due to the current fabric consumption is already high in the next period of growth will be very stable and not even with growth, but as a developing country, China's fiber consumption is still very low, apparel fabrics industry, and therefore has a larger space for development. Therefore, the coming period, China's demand for apparel fabrics will have a greater increase in fabric industry is also a large space for development. From the production side, last year China's history of fabric production reached the highest level, including printing and dyeing cloth output reached 21 billion meters, knitting cloth nearly 2.2 billion meters, woolen 370 million meters, dyeing silks, 2.7 billion meters, hemp products more than 75 million meters. As the textile industry in recent years, technological transformation and equipment, apparel fabrics from the past to produce low value of the bleached fabrics mainly to high-value printing and dyeing fabric transfer, in 2001 the proportion reached 35% of the cloth, the product grade continuously year by year. In terms of geographical analysis, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Guangdong, Shandong and Fujian printing and dyeing cloth production accounts for more than 80% of the country, of which the output of Zhejiang, nearly half the country. My fabric is also a huge importer last year, a total of 4.647 billion meters of imports of all kinds of fabrics, valued at 6.345 billion U.S. dollars, with an average unit cost of 1.37 U.S. dollars / m, of which a high-grade fiber-based products and wool products, and more than 95% imported fabrics to be processed into clothing re-export. Imports of major countries and regions as Japan, South Korea, the EU and China Taiwan and Hong Kong. From the Price to see Japan and the European Union imports of high-grade, the relative proportion of wool products is relatively high, while imports from other regions are mostly chemical fiber products.
