Accession To The WTO Ten &Nbsp; China Textile Phoenix Nirvana

World textile trade returns to "the right way"

From the GATT (GATT) to the World Trade Organization (WTO), its original intention is to promote trade.

Looking back on the status of China's resumption of GATT membership and China's accession to the WTO, China's textile and apparel trade has been the biggest negotiation.

Such unreasonable terms are based on a bias in developed countries, that is, China's accession to WTO will hurt its industries.

Such unilateral thinking still exists after the abolition of MFA. The one-sided argument on "China's textile industry is the only beneficiary and the other countries are losers" after the cancellation of China's accession to the WTO and MFA is common.

This is not the case. China's accession to the WTO and the abolition of MFA have accelerated the integration of China's textile industry into the global industrial network (GPN), making the Chinese textile industry in a more equitable competitive environment, giving full play to comparative advantages and promoting the healthy development of the world's textile trade.

From 2001 to 2008, the volume of world textile (SITC65) trade increased by about 50%, while the volume of clothing (SITC84) trade increased by about 75%.

In the meantime, China's textile exports (SITC65) increased by 4 times, and China's clothing exports increased 3 times.

A US ITC policy research report also pointed out that China's entry into WTO has inevitably affected the textile and garment manufacturing industry in the United States, but the overall welfare and total employment level of the US economy has improved.

It can be seen that China's accession to the WTO has not only lifted the fetters of China's textile industry, but also promoted the healthy development of the world's textile trade.

Ten years of China's textile Phoenix Nirvana

After ten years of WTO entry, China's textile and clothing trade has experienced the training of thought and practice.

As a springboard for industrialization and urbanization, the textile industry is the protagonist of the economic pformation and industrial pformation of various countries, and also the object of the adjustment of the industrial pfer and trade pattern in globalization. Therefore, the restructuring of the global industrial network of textile industry will inevitably involve the interests of the traditional textile trading powers and the relevant political gathering groups.

In the past ten years, especially after the abolition of MFA, the trade frictions against Chinese textiles have been increasing.

The textile industry and trade have been kidnapped by some politicians, whether they are right-wing China or left-wing unions. They will regard Chinese textiles as the bargaining chip of political negotiations and the crank of political struggle.

Ten years after China's accession to the WTO, China's textile industry has resisted the trade frictions launched by trade protectionism, has been subjected to all kinds of discordant noises, earnestly implemented its commitments and played a responsible textile power role in the world textile stage.

As the world's largest consumer of fiber products, China has consistently fulfilled the promise of opening up the market, constantly reducing import tariffs, eliminating the import tax of the least developed countries and improving the import of fiber fabrics and clothing products.

Before the financial crisis, China's clothing imports were about 3 times that of 2001, and textile imports increased by about 27%.

At the same time, China has become the second largest consumer of high-end fashion products in the world. The demand of Chinese consumers in the world is growing, and it has become an important force in promoting the development of the world textile and clothing industries.

On the whole, China strives to promote the balance of world textile and clothing trade, promotes multilateral trade policies in an all directional way, and strengthens the technology export, investment, cooperative operation and trade promotion activities for less developed countries, and gradually becomes one of the most important members in world trade.

On the other hand, after China's accession to the WTO, the market continues to open, foreign retail circulation industry has entered, widening domestic channels, stimulating domestic demand, cultivating the fashion market, and making garment retail sales grow at a high speed.

By 2008, the total retail sales of clothing had increased to 1.8 times, and the export channels have also been widened.

China's textile and garment industry has become mature and growing in the international competition, and has gradually realized industrial upgrading.

Innovation and change, opening a strong textile nation

After entering the WTO for ten years, China has fully integrated into the world, and the economic development has reached a new stage.

China's textile industry has also entered the stage of "increasing quantity and quality" from the rapid growth stage.

In the past five years, China's manufacturing industry, including the textile industry, has faced a huge challenge under the internal and external factors such as RMB appreciation, recruitment difficulties, higher raw material and labor costs, and the Chinese economy has also received an early warning signal of the "middle-income dilemma".

After joining the WTO, as the main member of the world's major economies and the global network of textile industry, China's textile industry is experiencing changes in the world at any moment.

Under the impact of the financial crisis, China can not be left alone, but can not drift with the tide, nor should it give up the influence and the right to speak.

China's textile industry should change the "world outlook", balance import and export trade, adjust the ratio of domestic and foreign demand, realize the new round of growth by capital reorganization as a link through technological progress, optimize the industrial structure through industrial pfer, explore the growth space, innovate the way of thinking, pform the growth mode, and promote industrial upgrading; and adjust the industrial spatial structure, market structure and product structure to practice the road of sustainable development.

After joining the WTO for ten years, China's textile industry blaze a new trail in the flames, opening up a brilliant road from textile to power.