According to statistics from the General Administration of Customs, from January to April this year, national textile and apparel exports reached 88.37 billion U.S. dollars, a year-on-year increase of 32.8% (in RMB terms, an increase of 23.3% year-on-year), which was 11.2 percentage points lower than the growth rate of exports in the first quarter. Among them, textile exports were US$43.96 billion, a year-on-year increase of 18% (in RMB, an increase of 9.5%); clothing exports were US$44.41 billion, a year-on-year increase of 51.7% (in RMB, a year-on-year increase of 41%).

In April, China’s textile and apparel exports to the world were US$23.28 billion, a year-on-year increase of 9.2% (in RMB terms, a year-on-year increase of 0.8%). Since the same period last year was at the beginning of the outbreak of the overseas epidemic, the export base of epidemic prevention materials was relatively high. In April this year, china’s textile exports were US$12.15 billion, a year-on-year decrease of 16.6% (in RMB terms, a year-on-year decrease of 23.1%). The same period before) exports still increased by 25.6%.

In April, China’s clothing exports were 11.12 billion U.S. dollars, a year-on-year increase of 65.2% (in RMB terms, a year-on-year increase of 52.5%), and the export growth rate continued to increase by 22.9 percentage points from the previous month. Compared with the same period before the epidemic (April 2019), exports increased by 19.4%.