Serve the Society with Textile and Apparel Specialty

Education Making a specialty of textile and apparel, Wuhan University of Science and Engineering (WUSE), besides the traditional specialty, such as literature, natural science, engineering, education, economics,     

To Pursue Social Responsibility in the Diversified Development

On the I I th of September, the China National Textile and Apparel Council （CNTAC） and The Office for Social Responsibility of CNTAC held 2014 Annual Conference on Social Responsibility of Chinese Textile and Apparel Industry in Beijing, with Mr. Wang Tiankai, President of CNTAC, Mr. Du Yuzhou, Honorary President of CNTAC, Mr. Zhu Hongren, Engineer-General of Ministry of lndustry and Information Technology, etc. attending this conference.     

Export of textile machinery products

In 2007, the export of textile machinery products continued to keep a rapidly increasing trend. In accordance with the statistics from the custom, as of December this year, the value of exported textile machinery products was USD1.528 billion, increased by 23.54% over the previous year. Except that the export of nonwoven cloth machinery products reduced to a certain degree compared with that in 2006, the export of other varieties of products increased greatly. The export of textile machinery products had been remaining relatively rapid growth since 2000. During this period, the structure of exported products has changed continuously, so do export enterprises. There are still many problems in export of textile machinery products, and manufacturers of textile machinery products should improve and advance continuously. However, on the whole, the integrated and international competitiveness of textile machinery products is enhanced, so is the internationalization level of manufacturers of textile machinery products.     

Cautious yet Optimistic Attitude towards the Slight Growth

From Jan. to Jan. of the year of 2014, the overall operation of Textile Machinery industry saw a slight increase. The main business and profit of the textile machinery enterprises above designated size increased slightly but the scale of losses has been enlarged. The total imports and exports grow by 12.09%, with a slight year on year growth of imports by 5.04% and a significant year on year growth of exports by 24.52%. The fixed asset investment of textile machinery grows by as little as 1.08%, and the amount of new projects saw a year on year decrease by 0.96%.     

Exbihition

Interstoff Asia Autumn 2006This October, the fair will repeat the winning concept of its three distinct sections: the Hall of Creation, the Hall of Function and the Hall of Fashion. An exhibition that includes a wide range of textile products, an array of professional programmes that illustrating perfectly these three sections.The Hall of Function The focus of the Hall of Function will once again be the functional fabrics demonstration area. In line with the concept of the entire fair, t…     

NEWS

Operating pro ts weredown of textile andgarment companies39textile and garment companies had publishedtheir annual reports,operating pro ts in24of themwere down.According to the statistical data,39listing textileand garment companies had published their annualreports,net pro ts in35of them achieved positivegrowth,net pro ts in only4of them had de cit.Youngor had a net pro t of CNY1599million in2012,claimed the rst rank.In2012,whether export or domestic marketswere shrinking in the garment industry.Data shows,2012clothing exports of USD160155million,ayear-on-year increase of4.53%,export volume of28912pieces/sets,a year-on-year decrease of1.07%.In domestic market,clothing retail sales in enter-prises above designated size was CNY977800mil-lion,a year-on-year increase of18%,sales volumehad a year-on-year decrease of6.2%.Reasons for the decline     

NEWS

Economic data of China in 2012 released On18th of January, National Bureau of Statistics of China released China’s economic operation data in 2012. According to the related information, the preliminary accounting results of Gross Domestic Products( GDP ) valued 51932200 million yuan. By the comparable prices, a growth of 7.8% over the previous year. In terms of different quarters, a growth of 8.1% y/y in the first quarter,     

Market

Performance of domestic market
The domestic consumer market has basically remained steady since the be- ginning of the year. Monthly, the growth of consumption has been steady and slowing down recently. The retail sales of consumer goods in October reached 2.4 trillion yuan, up 11.5% year on year, and 10.8% with price factors excluded. Totally, the consumption growth has re- mained steady. The total retail sales of consumer goods in January-October went up 12% year on year, the same as that of the first half year. While the growth of investment continued to fall, constlmp- tion has played the role of a stabilizer in economic growth. Following are the main characteristics of the consumer market in October.     

Calendar

Preview in Seoul 2014, organized by Fashion Exhibition Team of Korea Federation of Textile Industries （KOFOTI）, has been held on the 3rd to the 5th of September. This fair was the largest ever with 307 enterprises from 16 countries. 63 enterprises from China exhibited in this fair. The Chinese exhibitors, not confined to large enterprises, consisted of small or medium ones as well. They have brought quality products of fabric and yarn for Korean market, with the aim of gaining a foothold in overseas market prior to FTA. The attractions of Chinese products are high quality and reasonable price.     

资讯

Textile Economy Recover in Jan./Feb. Ministry of Industry and InformationTechnology recently released the consumergoods industry situation in Jan. and Feb. of2009. In the first two months, the industrialadded value of consumer goods increased7.4% to the same period of last year, or9.2% on the daily base. Encouraged bythe policies of enlarging domestic demand,textile industry recovered soon, but theexport situation was still not optimistic.     

Dornbirn Manmade Fibers Congress To Lead Fiber Industry

On the occasion of 53rd Dornbim Conference, Mr. Andreas Enge- hardt, General Manager of The Fiber Year GmbH interviewed with Dr. Untersperger, CEO of Lenzing Group.     

Silk： In Steadiness but Needing Impetus

The production of silk industry was basically stable, but the economy still shouldered great downward pressure. From Jan. to June, the silk production totalized 79,165 tons, with year-on-year increase of 7.16%, according to the investigation of 406 up-scale silk reeling enterprises by the National Bureau of Statistics. In addition, the production of satins and silk quilt were nearly in the same level, and main business income and profit all achieved the growth of around 7%. In a word, silk industry was basically in stable economic situation.     

Import of textile machinery

In 2007,the total importation of our textile machinery amounts to US$4.948 billion,increased by 20.62%over the same period of the previous year,which turns out to be a new high in the year of textile machinery.Among the imported produc ts in 2007,different impor ted produc ts witness growths of various degrees. The large-scale impor t increase of tex tile machiner y indicates the acceleration of textile technology and upgrading of textile industry,and demonstrates that our textile machinery industry still keeps distance from the international advanced technology in terms of product level,product stability as well as the product reliability although the rapid improvement was made in manufacturing in Chinese textile machinery industry in the last few years.In addition,the possibility of RMB appreciation still exists.Import increase of textile machinery brings a new historical high in 2007.     

Restructuring the PET World

ChinaThe consumption of MMF (Man-made fiber) in 2005 was 17.10 million tons, which amounted to 76% of the total. Among various kinds of MMF, nearly 76% of the whole consumption was taken by polyester fiber, which was 13 million tons with an annual growth rate of 16.4% during the past five years. The production capacity of PET industry performed well during the last ten years, of which the annual growth rate was nearly three times of the world average level. In 1995, the total production ca…     

National clothing retail sales up 16.4%y/y in Nov.2012

In November of 2012, the domestic apparel market continued to spending a lot of strength on promotions.The margin of year-on-year price growth reached a new low this year, while the growth speed of retail sales volume reached its highest level since the beginning of this year. The overall showed a trend of "price falling, volume rising". According to National Bureau of Statistics     

News-in-Brief

290,000 tons of Cotton in JulyChina Custom figures show that by the end of July 2006, China imported 290 thousand tons of cotton and compared with June, July imported about 90,000 tons less cotton. For the first seven months of 2006, China imported a total of 2.74 million tons of cotton and from September 2005 till July this year this country imported 3.83 million tons of cotton. A Good Second Quarter for H.K. 13th August, Hong Kong Statistics Office reported that for the second quarte…     

Ministry of Commerce Announcement

Ministry of Commerce Announcement No.59, 2005 on Related Matters on Transferring Power of Administration on Registration of Foreign Invested Enterprise and Releasing of Approval License to Lower Levels, and Going Further to Simplify Procedures of Examination and ApprovalIn accordance with State Council's Decisions on Canceling and Adjusting the Third Batch of Program ofAdministrative Examination and Approval(No.16,2004),power of administration of ministries andcommissions,and depa…     

ICAC：Demand Expected to Improve as Prices of Polyester and Cotton Converge

After international cotton prices spiked in 2010/11,many spinners decreased the share of cotton in yarn in favor of greater use of polyester.At the start of 2013,the gap between cotton and polyester prices widened.Polyester prices remained fairly stable at around 74-76 cts/lb for most of 2013 and 2014 until droppingto 65 cts/lb in April of this year.     

Newsroom

The Ministry of Aariculture Will Carry Out Price Monitoring on Cotton Market
Recently,the Ministry of Agriculture issued the＂Notice of Price Monitoring on Cotton and Soybeans＂.It is pointed out in the Notice that 2014 is the first year for experimental work of the agricultural price target reform. According to requirement of 2014 Central Document No. 1 and deployment of the State Council, the state will cancel the temporary storage of cotton and soybean policy from 2014 and start the experimental work of target price reform on cotton of Xinjiang （including Corps） and soybean of Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang and Inner Mongolia.     

Situation Still Grim, Company Confidence Return Analysis for Entrepreneur Questionaire

To better understand the current situation of China textile industry and the enterprisesdemand,China Textile Entrepreneur Association joined hands with China Textile StatisticsCenter to make a questionaire survey on the executives of textile mills and manufacturers atthe end of Dec.2008.More than 100 questionaries were returned by the end of Jan.2009.123 of them were reviewed and analyzed.Here below are the key points: