"We are currently working hard to catch up and chase the time of this month's delay." As the person in charge of the production leader of a textile export enterprise in Shandong Province, Zhao Changwei has his own views on the production of the entire enterprise. "At the end of March and early April It is our most difficult moment. Before this epidemic came, all our workers ate and lived in the company, and no one could go home, which ensured our production power; The problem, the inventory is not enough to ensure production, which brings us difficulties and some potential risks to our exports, but we finally solve most of the problems with the help of the government and the industry and ensure exports. Our company is happy. "

The experience of Zhao Changwei's enterprise is a microcosm of many Chinese textile and apparel companies in the near future. Although affected by the epidemic, it has overcome difficulties with the efforts of all parties. In the export trade of textile clothing.

Despite the influence of the epidemic, the export scale of domestic textile companies reached a new high. Under the support of factors such as the continuous recovery of the demand for overseas markets, the policy of stabilizing the country's "stabilization of foreign trade", and the promotion of rising international commodity prices, my country's textiles and clothing exports have achieved good growth. China Customs data shows that in the first quarter, my country's textiles and clothing exports reached US $ 72.25 billion, an increase of 11%year -on -year, an increase of the highest level of export scale over the same period. With the gradual recovery of the textile supply chain in Southeast Asia and other countries, the demand for yarn and fabric -related facilities has rebounded significantly, and my country's textile exports have achieved a new high of US $ 36.57 billion, an increase of 15.1%year -on -year. The international market terminal demand was basically stable. In the first quarter, my country's clothing exports reached 35.68 billion US dollars, an increase of 7.4%year -on -year. The "Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement" (RCEP) takes effect to provide a new competitive display platform for my country's textile industry chain. In the first quarter, my country ’s textiles and clothing exports of 14 member states for RCEP were US $ 21.4 billion, an increase of 12.3% year -on -year increased by 12.3% year -on -year It accounted for 29.6%of the total exports of global textiles and clothing in the same period.

According to the statistics of the General Administration of Customs, from January to April 2022, the national textiles and clothing exports were US $ 95.84 billion, an increase of 8.6%year -on -year (an increase of 6.4%year -on -year in RMB), a decrease of 2.6 percentage points from the growth rate of exports in the first quarter. Among them, textile exports were 48.82 billion US dollars, an increase of 11.1%year -on -year (increased by 8.9%year -on -year); clothing exports were US $ 47.02 billion, a year -on -year increase of 6.2%(an increase of 4.0%year -on -year).

In April, my country's textiles and clothing exports were US $ 23.59 billion, an increase of 7.0%from the previous month, an increase of 1.6%compared with the same period last year (the same ratio of the RMB decreased by 0.2%), showing strong toughness. Among them, textile exports were US $ 12.26 billion, a year -on -year increase of 0.9%(decreased by 0.9%year -on -year). The export of clothing exports was US $ 11.33 billion, a year -on -year increase of 2.4%(increased by RMB 0.5%year -on -year), but the growth rate fell 8.5 percentage points from the previous month.

According to the analysis of the China Textile International Capacity Cooperation Enterprise Alliance, under the situation where my country's foreign trade development is facing the increasingly complicated and severe external environment, from January to April, the export trade amount of goods in my country increased by 12.5%year -on -year (with the US dollar), which reflects China's strong economic toughness and strong economic toughness, and the strong economic toughness of China, and the strong economic toughness of China, which is strong. The characteristics of sufficient potential and virus room. However, since the second quarter, the textile and apparel industry has been affected by many places, and foreign trade has been under great downward pressure. From the perspective of export performance alone, my country's textile and apparel export growth rate (1.6 %in the US dollar was 1.6 %) fell 15.2 percentage points from March.

The Ministry of Industry of the China Textile Industry Federation believes that global industrial production, international trade, and market liquidity have been more prominent, and it is restored to the recovery of market consumption and improvement of residential consumption confidence. With the gradual recovery of the overseas textile supply chain, the international procurement pattern will also be accelerated. my country's textile industry will face an intensified situation, and the pressure on exports will increase significantly.