In June 18th, the Ninth "China Textile and clothing trade exhibition" was launched at the New York Institute of exhibition.

Chinese textile enterprises suffered large losses this year. Exhibitors are seeking alternative ways of survival.

The picture shows Huang Ying, a exhibitor from Beijing. The main products he attended this year has shifted from ready-made clothes to fabrics, because "compared to ready-made garments, China's fabrics still have advantages over Vietnam and Kampuchea".

China News Agency, New York, June, eighteen (reporter Wei Xi) the annual "China Textile and clothing trade exhibition" was launched in New York on eighteen, and more than 100 Chinese textile and garment enterprises went to the United States to participate in the exhibition. The exhibition will be held on the twenty th of this month.

So far, this exhibition is the ninth session, and it is also the largest professional exhibition held by the Chinese themselves overseas.

The exhibition reached nearly $100 million in three days last year, and the exhibitors all hope to be able to build on this basis this year.

Chinese Consul General Peng Keyu in New York and New York municipal government officials attended the opening ceremony.

Peng Boyi, mayor of New York, sent a congratulatory letter, saying that the China Textile and clothing trade fair has added new elements to the colorful New York.

China and the United States are the largest importers of cotton in the United States. Last year, China exported more than twenty-four billion US dollars to the United States.

The total amount of textiles imported from the United States every year accounts for twenty percent to thirty-five percent of the total sales of textiles and clothing in the United States.

Turning to the current situation of the textile and garment industry between China and the United States, Peng Keyu, Consul General of China in New York, told reporters that Sino US trade was "mutually beneficial and win-win", and hoped that the US market could be more liberalized through friendly consultation.

He mentioned in particular that the import of Chinese textiles in the United States actually includes the cotton, machinery and technology components of the United States.

He believes that China and the United States share common interests in the textile industry and should make good use of each other's advantages and disadvantages.