摘要
THE statistics are clear: before 1986, the sales volume of foreign brand garments took up only 0.1 percent of the total Chinese market. Nowadays, for every 10 yuan of money earned by the garment industry, one yuan is earned by foreign garment makers. In other words, the sales volume of foreign garments has increased by a hundredfold in a short 10 years. If a decade seems too long, let’s look at the increase margin in a single year: In 1995, China imported US$970 million worth of