Cotton Textile Industry Appears Stable And Good Signs

In March, the textile enterprises basically started in full scale. Compared with February, the proportion of cotton distribution was basically flat, the amount of cotton used in the month increased, the amount of cotton in storehouse and disposable inventory increased, and the proportion of Xinjiang cotton increased.

Compared with the previous month, the production and sales of cotton yarn and grey fabric increased significantly, and inventories decreased slightly.

According to the cotton warning system in China, the survey results of 80 fixed-point textile enterprises in the whole country showed that the yarn output increased by 2.45% over the same period in March, of which the percentage of pure cotton yarn increased by 1.18 percentage points. The output of cloth increased by 3.14% compared with that of the previous year, and the proportion of pure cotton cloth increased by 4.31 percentage points.

From the cotton use situation, that month

The proportion of Xinjiang cotton increased.

According to the survey data, Xinjiang cotton accounted for 64.95% of the total cotton consumption, an increase of 1 percentage points from the previous month, of which 30% of the enterprises increased their usage, 28% of the enterprises who used less, and 20.32% of the total cotton imports, accounting for 2 percentage points lower than that of last month.

In March, the domestic and foreign markets of textiles improved, to a certain extent, to the textile industry in the first quarter.

Industry sales.

According to customs statistics, China's textile and apparel exports were US $16 billion 852 million in the same month, an increase of 34.10% over the same period last year, an increase of 7.63% over the same period, and the year-on-year growth rate in the first quarter was 10.47 percentage points higher than that in 1-2 months.

According to the monitoring data of the China National Business Information Center, the sales volume of clothing retail sales in 50 key large retail enterprises in 2016 increased by 1.9 percentage points compared to 1-2 months in March.

In March, the operating rate of textile enterprises increased, yarn and grey fabric production increased, and downstream demand recovered.

Relatively smooth, inventory reduction.

According to the survey data, yarn production increased by 48.04%, of which the proportion of pure cotton yarn was 72.66%, the annulus ratio increased by 4.37 percentage points, the proportion of blended yarn was 18.91%, the ratio of the cotton yarn decreased by 0.36 percentage points, the cloth production increased by 29.18%, and the proportion of pure cotton cloth increased by 4.65 percentage points.

This month, yarn sales rate was 97.86%, an increase of 4.79 percentage points from February, an increase of 2.28 percentage points over the same period last year.

At the end of the month, yarn inventory was 14 days, basically flat last month, and grey fabric inventory for 21 days, 2 days from last month.

In March, some of the conventional cotton yarn branches were in full demand and prices were stable.

According to the survey data, the average monthly price of domestic 32 pure cotton yarn is 19004 yuan / ton, a decrease of 0.97%, down 11.88% from the same period last year.

Of the surveyed enterprises, 47% of the enterprises' orders increased compared with February, and 16.20% of the enterprises' profits increased compared with February.

Affected by the decline in raw materials, enterprises are slightly profitable.

At the end of March, the raw material inventory of textile enterprises increased compared with that of February, but it was still low. The purchasing strategy of raw materials purchased by the textile enterprises normalized with the purchase strategy. The policy of reserve cotton rotation was clear, and the short-term replenishment of enterprises increased significantly.

According to the cotton inventory and the amount of cotton used by the surveyed enterprises, as of March 31st, the number of cotton stocks in the national textile enterprises was about 320 thousand tons, estimated to be about 15 days, an increase of 22 thousand and 300 tons compared with February, and an increase of 7.38% in the ring ratio.

Among the surveyed enterprises, 30% of the cotton stocks were increased, 38% of the cotton stocks were reduced, and 32% were the wait-and-see attitude.