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ShanghaiTex 2021 scheduled to be held in November 23-26, 2021

The 20th International Exhibi—tion on Textile Industry (ShanghaiTex 2021) will be held from November 23—26, 2021 at the New International Expo Centre in Shanghai. The event will gather a number of global leading textile and fashion suppliers to showcase a range of intelligent textile technology, innovative health and green technology, inspiring the future for the textile and fashion industry.

ShanghaiTex 2021 and its strategic partner Textech Galaxy have collaborated to tap new business opportunities in the post—pandemic era. The two companies will focus on three major industry highlights – healthcare, green and recycle, and artificial intelligence.A raft of exhibitions and concurrent events will be organized for promoting high—growth sectors and creating a dy—namic platform for the industry.

ShanghaiTex 2021 will also organize Textech Designer Match and WTTDC 2021 for designers, brands and manu—facturers all over the worlds to exchange ideas on design, raising the innovative values of the global textile industry.

Furthermore, it will hold the 3rd Artificial Intelligence on Fashion& Textile International Conference (AIFT 2021) from November, 24—25 November 2021 at the Shanghai (Pudong) New International Expo Centre.

Exports of Xinjiang’s garments and accessories increased by 54.14 percent

According to the statistics of Urumqi Customs, from January to May 2021, the export value of textile yarn, fabric and products at Xinjiang ports was 1.258 billion yuan, down 3.97 percent year—on—year; the export value of garments and clothing accessories was 8.137 billion yuan, up 54.14 percent year—on—year. From January to May 2021, the import value of textile yarn, fabric and products at Xinjiang ports was 126 million yuan, with a year—on—year increase of 8.68 percent; the import value of garments and clothing accessories was 10 million yuan, down 38.73 percent year—on—year.

It is reported that Urumqi Customs will take into account the implementation of various measures to promote stable growth of foreign trade, further understand the difficulties and needs of enter—prises, focus on problems and take precise measures to effectively hedge the negative impact of the pandemic on foreign trade and help enterprises stabilize foreign trade.

Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: Production of chemical fiber increased by 22.1 percent YoY

From January to April 2021, the production of chemical fiber in—dustry continued to grow, with the output of chemical fiber reaching 21.7 million tons, up 22.1 percent year—on—year. Among them, the output of polyester was 17.21 million tons, up 23.6 percent year—on—year; nylon output was 1.53 million tons, up 16.30 percent year—on—year; the output of viscose staple fiber was 1.4 million tons, up 17.57 percent year—on—year.

From January to April 2021, the benefit of chemical fiber industry continued to rebound. Actual completed investment in chemical fiber industry increased by 13.0 percent year—on—year; the operating income of chemical fiber enterprises above designated size reached 301.7 bil—lion yuan, up 35.8 percent year—on—year; total profit was 20.78 billion yuan, up 648.87 percent year—on—year; operating income profit margin was 6.89 percent, up 5.64 percentage points year—on—year.

SHEIN reaches monthly sales at USD 1.2 billion in Southeast Asia

Chinese fast fashion cross—border e—commerce brand SHEIN is setting up a regional hub in Singapore to serve online consumers in Malaysia, a move that will accelerate its expansion into Southeast Asian market, according to media reports.

SHEIN has become the world’s top fast fashion brand on mobile terminals. According to Sensor Tower store data, SHEIN has been downloaded about 75 million times in the global mar—ket as of June 22, 2021, outpacing competitors Shopee and Wish.

North America, Europe and the Middle East are SHEIN’s major markets, and the company’s ambitions to expand into Singapore and Malaysia’s markets should not be underestimated. SHEIN has hired a local marketing and communications agency to handle public relations for the plat—form in Southeast Asia, according to a SHEIN spokesman. Currently popular on the Internet,SHEIN is one of the most popular clothing e—commerce businesses among overseas young people.

Relying on China’s strong manufacturing and supply chain rapid reaction capabilities,SHEIN has been able to develop rapidly. 95 percent of the company’s products are shipped from the central warehouse in Foshan, Guangdong. Overseas transit warehouses are set up in Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Italy, Australia, and Southeast Asia, Vietnam and Indonesia, which are only responsible for receiving returns from various regions and not shipping them.According to previous media reports, currently SHEIN can add 5,000 new products per day, but in September 2020, the number of new products per day is only about 1,000.

At present, the monthly average sales of SHEIN has reached USD 1.2 billion. The daily parcel volume has stabilized at more than 1 million packages this month. The platform serves consumers in more than 220 countries and regions around the world.

Dongguan Dalang trade pilot’s export exceeds 10 billion yuan in six months

According to statistics from Huangpu Customs, as of June 21,the market procurement trade pilot of Dalang Woolen Trade Center in Dongguan, Guangdong has been launched since the end of last year, and the export has exceeded 10 billion yuan. The number of pilot operators has reached 1,487, and the export commodities in—volve furniture, daily necessities, textiles and apparel are exported to 141 countries and regions in Europe, America and Southeast Asia.

Lu Xuefang, secretary—general of Dongguan Market Procure—ment Industry Alliance, said that since the pandemic, a large num—ber of small and medium—sized manufacturing enterprises have suffered a large decline in export orders, and traditional manufac—turing industries such as clothing and furniture are facing a huge impact. For this “fast track”, the current willingness of enterprises to participate in the pilot is high, only in May this year, more than 400 new participating enterprises.

Huangpu Customs Port Supervision Department Director Gao Yongzhuang said, the next step they will continue to promote the market procurement trade supervision innovation and reform, sup—port and cultivate characteristic advantages of products, technology,brand development, continue to tap the trade potential, through the“characteristic industry + market procurement” supply chain, help enterprises to integrate into the “double circulation” in a better way.

European garment imports to China rebound

European garment imports to China rebounded in March, which backs to the level of two years ago. Because of the pressure given by other countries’ garment imports, the second wave of pandemic of south Asia also give imports a lot of pressure.

In March, the total European garment imports increases 11.9% year—on—year, 6% lower than the same period of 2019 year—on—year. Clothing imports of China increased by 65% year—on—year, 10% over the same period of 2019, and 13% in terms of amount.

In contrast, the EU’s clothing imports and imports to other countries in March decreased by 9.6% and 10% respectively compared with the same period in 2019. In the first quarter, the EU’s clothing imports to Bangladesh decreases by 9.6% year—on—year.

In the first quarter of this year, Britain's clothing imports fell sharply year—on—year, and the second wave of pandemic in South Asia led to a sharp drop in imports, but China and Turkey accounted for an increase in the proportion of British clothing imports. Brit—ish clothing imports decreased by 15.8% year—on—year in terms of quantity and 23.6% in terms of dollar. China's clothing imports increased by 4.1% year—on—year, while the import decreased by 1.7%.China's share of Britain's clothing imports rose to 22%, while the import rose to 21%.

In the first quarter, Bangladesh remained the largest source of British clothing imports, accounting for 24.6% of the total, and the import decreased by 24.1% in terms of quantity, indicating that the pandemic situation in South Asia did bring negative impacts. In the same period, Britain's clothing imports to India decreased by 18.3%,Pakistan's clothing imports increased by 23% and Turkey's clothing imports increased by 8.1%.

Blockage of India caused huge impact on textile manufacturing

Tirupur, Tamil Nadu in southern India, is an important base of garment production in India. Due to the pandemic, the garment in—dustry in India suffered heavy losses.

This is a garment processing factory in Tirupur, Tamil Nadu,southern India. There are more than 17,500 garment factories in the local area. 60% of the knitted garments in India base here, and many multinational fast—moving consumer goods are also pro—cessed here.

The president of the garment export association of Tirupur, In—dia, said that international garment companies launch new products every month, and garment factories need to closely meet the order requirements. After the second COVID—19 outbreak in India, Indian garment factories have been unable to meet customer require—ments for more than two months, which may eventually lead to long—term loss of international customers.

According to Indian media reports, affected by the pandemic,some multinational clothing retailers have moved 15—20 percent of their orders to other countries. During the second wave of COVID—19 outbreak, the clothing industry in the city lost at least about 100 bil—lion rupees, about 8.7 billion yuan. India's clothing industry provides about 12 million jobs. Indian industry insiders say that the blockade has a great impact on manufacturing.