The Deputy Director of the China Textile Industry Association and Director of sportswear branch in the association, Mr. Yang Shibin says that China will launch a standardization of four major sports products, which includes special sports clothing, civilian sportswear, functional protective equipment and sports socks.
The required standards include common standards and their corresponding product standards. Common standards are divided into general technical requirements of competition sports clothing, textile security technical requirements of protective sports equipment and requirements of clothing for receiving awards.
The other product standards are divided into four broad categories of "special sports clothing", "civil sportswear", "functional protective equipment" and "sports socks" according to sport items, use characteristics of and functional sportswear products.
Fibre2fashion News Desk - China