Import Scenario of Chinese Textile Machinery Industry

2007 was year of great success for Chinese textile machinery market. In this year machinery manufacturer experienced orders pouring and the market witnessed attention of world focusing on Chinese machinery. Many leading machinery manufacturers chose China for expanding their production base and established their manufacturing Unit in China. Oerlikon is one of those companies who selected china for their Asian manufacturing hub who believed China is one of the highest promising markets in Asia considering the fact that China accounted for 17% of total 37% of Oerlikon's sales in Asia in the first nine months of 2007.

China imported textile machinery worth 4 billion USD in the year 2007 as textile industry of China went for modernization. Main export destinations were Japan and Europe. Main import market for textile machineries were provinces like Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Guangdong which accounted for 71% of the China's overall imports.

Customs Statistics revealed that in the first half of this year, total imports of textile machinery together with other machineries reached US $2.38 billion, a growth of 4.7 percent over the same period last year. Of this, June imports marked $410 million, an increase of 11.1 percent.

Textile machinery imports in general trade fetched $1.4 billion, an increase of 3.6 percent a drop of 54.2 percentage points in growth rate, accounting for 58.8 percent of the total imports made by China in the first six months of this year. Moreover, equipment imports under investment by foreign-invested enterprises scored $680 million, down 1.4 percent and accounting for 28.6 percent of the total.

In the period under review, textile machinery imports by foreign invested enterprises amounted to $1.07 billion, an increase of 3.5 percent over the corresponding period last year and commanding 45 percent of China's total textile machinery imports. On the contrary, imports made by the private sector fell by 0.8 percent to $620 million while those made by state-owned enterprises plunged by 0.1 percent to $490 million.

Individually, textile machinery imports of Zhejiang stood at $550 million representing an increase of 8.5 percent, while those of Jiangsu and Guangdong stood at $510 million and $420 million marking a decline of 17.3 and 15.3 percent respectively. Together, the three provinces accounted for 62.2 percent of the total textile machinery imports.

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