As part of effort of the China National Garment Association (CNGA) to impulse the Chinese suit industry, CNGA announces the opening of China National Garment Association Suit Research Center. According to the vice-president Jiang Hengjie, the Association aims to lead the Chinese high-end suit industry into world stage and to “manufacture world-class suits and the best suits in China”.

“The embarrassment of exporting ten thousand million pieces of shirts in exchange for a Boing jet will become history”, the Association’s vice-president Jiang Hengjie proudly said. As the world biggest garment manufacturer, China’s total clothing production was 51.2 billion pieces (sets). The national clothing consumes achieved 820 billions of Yuan and the exports exceeded 115 billions of Yuan, from which suit production was 20 thousand million sets. Currently, the national garment industry employs more than 10 thousand million workers. It is literally the people’s livelihood industry.

According to Jiang Hengjie, “We are the biggest garment manufacturing country, not the strongest garment manufacturing country.” In a long run, due to the absence of world-class famous brands and the rare use of top-grade technologies, the Chinese garment industry can only earn meagre processing charges and is highly affected by the worldwide economic panorama. During the 2008 global economy recession for example, the closed clothing companies exceeded 15% of the total yearly production.