General Administration Of Customs: Steady Growth In China'S Textile And Clothing Export In 2008 1~2

At present, cotton has become China's third largest agricultural product after soybean and edible oil.

Once the international speculators manipulate the market, China's cotton textile industry will face great risks.

Therefore, as China's largest cotton production base, Xinjiang's cotton production is undoubtedly of great significance to national cotton safety.

Every year, the number of flower picker from mainland China to Xinjiang has about 300000 people, up to 600 thousand people.

Xinjiang has become the veritable "cotton kingdom".

Especially in 2007, although the total output of cotton in China has reached a new high of 7 million 500 thousand tons, the total output of cotton in Xinjiang has reached 2 million 700 thousand tons, still exceeding the 1/3 of cotton production in the whole country. As the world's cotton production has reduced to 26 million 100 thousand tons, Xinjiang cotton has surpassed the world's output of 1/10.

If the world cotton looks at China, then China's cotton must look at Xinjiang.

China is already the most productive, consuming and importing country in the world today.

There are 150 million cotton growers in China and about 13000000 people in the cotton spinning and clothing industry.

The main income of farmers in Xinjiang cotton area comes from cotton.

A study shows that the contribution rate of Xinjiang's cotton to stabilizing the national cotton output is the first in the country, and has exceeded 50%. It is evident that Xinjiang's cotton output has made an important contribution to stabilizing China's cotton production.

That is to say, the stability of Xinjiang's cotton output determines 50.1% of the stable output of cotton in China. The importance of Xinjiang's cotton for stabilizing the cotton output in the whole country is self-evident.

Xinjiang has proposed that cotton output in 2008 will be stable at 2 million 500 thousand tons.

Although this means that Xinjiang has about 10% reduction in cotton production, it does not affect Xinjiang's important role in the safety of Chinese cotton.