Find the hidden champion of Chinese textile materials

In the 1960s, the export share of the textile industry in Western Europe and the United States continued to decline, but the transformation and upgrading of the textile industry was completed through the development of synthetic fibers and high-end equipment manufacturing. The growth of natural fibers and fabrics in Japan slowed down, and the textile industry continued to maintain the world's first leading position by promoting the development of chemical fibers in the late 1960s, but with the sharp rise in labor costs in Japan, Japan quickly transferred clothing production capacity to South Korea and Taiwan Port, from the share of clothing exports, Japan fell from 11% in 65 years to 2% in 75 years. Korea and Taiwan rose from 2 percent to 7-8 percent.

3) 1970-1995: Japan to high-end technology and manufacturing transformation, South Korea and Taiwan bear the export center, the beginning of 90s gradually peel off the garment link

With the rising labor costs in Japan in the late 1960s, South Korea and Taiwan, which had cheap labor and sufficient production conditions, gradually assumed the role of division of labor in the textile industry. In 1980, the share of Japan/South Korea/Taiwan textile industry exports was 6.8%, 6.2% and 5.1%. South Korea/Taiwan exports are dominated by natural fibers and garments (the share of South Korea's garments and cotton yarn exports is about 10%). At this time, the appreciation of the yen accelerated the contraction of the Japanese textile industry, and Japan transformed and upgraded its research and development of high-end fibers and fabrics. At the end of the 1980s, the share of South Korea's garment exports reached a peak, and the first place of Italy was basically the same, and then due to the rise of labor costs, the garment link has been migrated to China.

4) 1990-2015: Korea and Taiwan were looking for a way of transformation and upgrading, and China started from the garment link, and the textile industry quickly rose to the absolute lead

At the end of the 1990s, with the demographic dividend fading, Korea/Taiwan clothing, textile exports have declined. China's Taiwan began to develop capital-intensive upstream petrochemical raw materials, and South Korea learned from Japan's path to strengthen the development of high-end fibers and fabrics, advanced equipment investment and enhance clothing design capabilities, and transition to high value-added links.  At the same time as the migration of the textile industry, the zipper manufacturing industry also began a second industrial transfer, and the zipper manufacturing center was moved from Japan to China. After the 21st century, under the double benefit of accession to the WTO and the abolition of the MFA agreement, the development of China's textile industry has ridden the dust, in 2015 textile/garment exports share of 37.8%/39.5%, while bearing 70% of the global synthetic fiber production.

5) 2010~ now: The rise of Southeast Asia, China has a trend of low-end capacity migration and rapid increase of high-end products

After 2010, China's labor cost has risen, and the labor cost is only 1/3 of China's emerging countries in Southeast Asia, which bear the terminal processing links such as clothing. In 2019, the export share of Vietnam/Bangladesh/India textile industry was 5.3%/4.6%/4.5% respectively, of which the share of apparel was 6.5%/6.6%/4.4% respectively. China has a trend of partial stripping of low-end links, the share of garment exports has fallen to 34.1%, and the export value of cotton fabrics has decreased by 11% from 2011 to now (synthetic fabrics have increased by 28%). At the same time, the proportion of China's high value-added products is also rapidly increasing, the proportion of special textiles in 2000 was only 4.2% (Japan/Korea/Taiwan about 18%), and reached 17.5% in 2019 (Japan/Korea/Taiwan 35%/18%/22%).

1780~1940: The origin of the textile industry, the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan has developed rapidly

The first industrial revolution opened the long river of the development of textile manufacturing industry, along with the process of industrial revolution, economic development stage and war, the textile industry in Britain, the United States, Japan has been rapid development, countries with production and trade to complete the initial capital accumulation.

United Kingdom: The first Industrial revolution in the 18th century contributed to the origin of the cotton spinning industry. In the 18th century, the textile industry originated in the United Kingdom, the invention of the steam engine in 1781 contributed to the first industrial revolution, bringing a steady stream of power to the textile industry, Britain imported cheap cotton raw materials from the Indian colonies, produced high-quality cotton products and exported to the world, cotton fabric successfully replaced wool and linen products to become the most popular fabric in Europe. For more than a century, the United Kingdom dominated the export of cotton products worldwide, and in 1851, the United Kingdom exported nearly 60% of its cotton textile products, accounting for 40% of all exports. Until the end of the 19th century, the British textile industry still accounted for half of the world's production capacity.