Related Keywords: China labour intensive industries, cotton imports declined, cotton output, cotton reserve, domestic textile manufacturers, garment and textile production, garment and yarn products, global market conditions, Internationa trade at Nankai university, US economy stabilized
Slow moving global market conditions have hit China's labor-intensive industries, especially garment and textile production. As the textile industry struggles, cotton imports declined 44.9 percent year-on-year to 161,200 metric tons in January. This draws attentions to the challenges that domestic textile manufacturers face in a weak world market, according He Jingtong, a professor of international trade at Nankai University in Tianjin.
