摘要
During the Eighth Five-Year Plan period, the output value of the industry increased at a growth rate of 21 percent each year. By the end of the period, its total output, total output value, export volume and export value all ranked first in the world, and China became the world’s top clothingmaking and exporting country in the world. In 1996, its exports of clothes were worth US$25 billion——a record figure. Its export value accounted for over 17 percent of the nation’s total and clothes constituted the major part of all the commodities exported from China. The number of the countries whose clothes import value from China was more