A Study Of The Trade Of Clothing Linings In China

Clothing lining is the lining used to make clothes, which is mainly used for keepingwarm and shaping. With social development and the diversification of consumptiondemand, clothing lining products have a new significance in today’s textile industry. Theglobal trade of clothing lining products is in a degree pushing forward the economicglobalization. China is the major producer and exporter of lining products, which hascaused an industrial cluster in the eastern provinces, and has produced a huge scale effect.In the global trade, China’s market share of linings has been rising, and the export growthis obviously faster than import. The import and export structure and regional structure arebecoming much optimized. However, China’s concentration in the industry of clothinglining materials is still low, and the integration of industrial chain is not very high.Although there has been a fierce competition in the domestic market in China, theinternational comprehensive competitiveness still needs to improve.China’s clothing lining industry has both advantages and disadvantages in theinternational trade market. In the import and export trade, Chinese lining industry hasadvantages in labor resources, natural resources, regional comparative advantage,late-mover advantage, and policy measures, which make China’s clothing lining industry,take an important position and competitive advantage in international division andinternational competition. At the same time, Chinese lining industry also has manydisadvantages, such as increasing production cost, backward technology and equipment,low labor productivity, surplus capacity of low-end products, lack of high-end products,high environmental pressure, poor circulation and sales system. These factors may spoilthe future trade and sustainable development in the lining industry in China.In order to keep strengths and make up weakness, and promote the sustainable andhealthy development of Chinese lining industry, the author argues that China’s liningindustry needs to make structural adjustments and industrial upgrading as the maindirection. Measures should be taken such as technology innovation, personnel training,brand building, environmental construction, improvement in value chain. To achievesustainable development as an important point, China should make efforts to build itsown brand, improve quality, increase product variety, expand high-end products, andenhance the competitiveness of the industry. The development of structural optimization,advanced technology, environmental protection, and high value-added products alsoshould be encouraged. The strong ability to absorb employment to achieve modernclothing lining industry should be maintained. The following strategies are recommendedsuch as focusing on technological innovation and personnel training, speeding upindustrial restructuring, industrial chain integration and regional restructuring,accelerating technological innovation and cultivating green, diverse, high-qualityproducts, and enhancing the international exchanges and cooperation in the fields of rawmaterials, capital markets, technology and industrial upgrading etc. What mentionedabove is the aim for the author to write this paper.