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MADE IN CHINA
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China's entry into the World Trade Organization has helped expand the overseas market… - since the country began its open-up policy and reform in the late 1970s, the garment industry has grown at a rate of 15.7% annually. Nowadays, China-made garments now account for 1/5 of the global market share, the largest single rate in the world;
- China remains the world’s largest cotton producer with an estimated 2004 crop of 29.00 million bales. USDA’s latest estimates indicate an 11.50% increase in planted acres over 2003, putting acreage at the highest level since 1992. Regarding seed variety, transgenic Bt cotton planting continued to expand in China, however, it remains difficult to predict the real area share of Bt varieties. Although only officially approved for planting in four provinces, Bt varieties are, in fact, grown much more widely. As a result, estimates for Bt cotton acreage vary from as low as 22.4% to over 70.0%;
- as a country with a well-developed textile industry, China now has some 3.69 million spindles in factories and needs 300,000 tons of wool to feed these spindles. Meanwhile, China can produce only 70,000 tons, which is 1/3 of that needed. China makes up the difference through imports mainly from Australia and Argentina;
- in 2000, according to the Textile Department of the Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Textile Products, China imported 60,000 tons of long and short flax fiber, an increase of 49% compared to 1999. Exports of linen totaled US$490 million rising 38.3% on the year-on-year basis;
- China is the world’s largest producer of man-made fibres followed by the United States, Chinese Taiwan, South Korea and Japan. Chinese production of man-made fibre has continually and rapidly increased with an average annual growth rate of 11.8% between 1985-90. More rapid progress was made in 1996 and 1997 with growth rates of 17.4% and 26.4% respectively. The proportion rate of man-made fibres in total use was 20.5% in 1980. This had increased to 56% in 1998.
- China's garment production rose to 11.6 billion pieces in 2000 from 670 million in 1978, an increase of 17 times or an increase of 14% annually. The textile sector accounts for 25% of China's total export volume. The country exported garments worth US$36.1 billion in 2000, 50 times its total for 1978. The foreign exchange earnings from garment exports will increase from US$50 billion in 2000 to US$65 billion by 2005.
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