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Status Quo

Domestic Demand: Support for the stable development of China's home textile.

In 2006， Chlna's home textile industry maintained a steady development According to statistics， the production value of home textile industry in the whole society reached about 650 bllhon Yuan in 2006， a growth of 20% compaied to 2005. Stattstics released by China Customs also revealed that the value of exported home textile products arrived at 18.56 billion USD， an lnclease of 20.63% against the same period of last year in 2006， however， a decrease of appioxlmately 12% in the growth rate compared with 2005; while the lmpolts came to 1.3 billion USD， 2.8% higher year-on-year From these figures， it is easy to see China's domestic textile industry's total export value accounted fol 20% of that in the whole industry， which clearly manifest that domestic demand remamed as the utmost drives for Chma's home textile development (See tables 1， 2， 3).