Research On China's Textile And Garment Export From The Perspective Of Global Value Chain

Chinese textile and garment industry, as the traditional leading industry, also has comparative advantages in export. Since China's reform and opening up, through undertaking developed countries' industrial shift, China's textile industry has quickly integrated into the textile and garment global value chain. And China has become the world's largest producing and trading countries of textile. However, with the high-speed growth in industrial scale and market share, China's exports of textile and garment products become more and more low-value-added, and the international competitiveness show a downward trend. As a result, the industry profit margins have been maintained at a lower level. The reason for this is that Chinese textile and garment industry is at the low position of global value chain, occupied only on the most low-end aspect of the value chain. In order to raise textile and garment exports, elevate its competitiveness, and occupy a sustainable preponderant position, China's textile industry must shift its business activities to high value-added aspect so as to achieve industrial upgrading. However, the road for achieving industrial upgrading through shifting to the high-end of the value chain was not smooth; it will be subjected to various constraints.This paper is based on the global value chain theory. By first studying the status and distribution of the proceeds of Chinese textile and garment industry which is in urgent need for upgrade, combined with the basic situation of textile exports of our country, then using SWOT method to analyze the internal and external advantages and disadvantages of China's textile and apparel exports, I finally focused on ways to enhance China's textile and garment exports and elevate its sustaining competitiveness.