Guangdong dyed cloth & denim industry

13 Dec '06

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Since the beginning of reform and opening up, the overall size of the textile industry in Guangdong has increased by leaps and bounds. This has become an important production base, distribution center and export base for China's textile industry.

In 2005, the textile industrial output valued at 215.703 billion yuan in Guangdong Province, ranking fourth in the country. Textile and apparel exports reached US $22.156 billion, ranking second, of which, garment exports earned $15.733 billion, taking the top spot in the country.

At present, Guangdong's textile and garment industry is still in a period of rapid development. In January-August this year, textile and clothing exports registered $2l.250 billion, growing 62.90 percent over the same period last year, once again ranking the first place in the nation.

After 20 years of development and adjustment, Guangdong cotton textile industry has formed into a certain scale, with more advanced industrial equipments, the province's cotton textile production capacity in 2005 was about 1.5 million cotton textile spindles, more than 50 percent of the production equipments were imported in 1990s, with about 70,000 rotor spinning machines and 4,320 air jet spinning spindles.

In 2005, cotton yarn output reached 366,400 tons, of which, more than 60 percent was high-grade non-knot yarn. There are more than 30,000 various shuttle-less looms, with weaving rate of 45 percent, higher than the national average of 24.4 percent, of which denim rate is over 95 percent.

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