China is the first exporter of cotton. In 2012, china's export value accounted for 22.3% of the world's total cotton exports, with a decrease of 4.2%, followed by India, accounting for 12.9% and with an increase of 9.9%.
Textile and apparel is an important traditional and people's livelihood industry. In the development process of the information and digital social, the traditional industry face survival pressure, less competitive market, if it doesn’t change, it will face a major survival test.
Looking at the world today, the textile and apparel industry is no longer a pillar industry of the national economy, if any, is different from the traditional textile and apparel industry. Developed countries output processing technology by "brand strategy" to pass on the cost pressure, making the developing countries as their factory and production base. China, as a big country of textile and apparel, is now taking the same path with the developed countries to output devices to Asia, North Africa and some countries and regions of Southeast Asia to set up factories and production base. Capital output to value and we are looking for new profits after the gradual disappearance of the local labor cost advantage.
Although in 2012 the development of the textile industry is growing, but the United States and the European Union's market share is reducing, which can further illustrates that the international competitiveness of China's textile industry is decreasing. Problems encountered previously exported mainly caused by shrinking international market, from a domestic point of view, mainly due to the rising costs of production factors, labor costs, raw material costs and other factors.
2013 will still be a relatively smooth year and will be presented first low to high situation, which mainly caused by the new economic policy impact on the industry, while exports will also maintain a difficult running. With the growth of domestic demand, the textile industry still has a tendency to go up.
