CHINA’S ENVIRONMENTAL CLEAN-UP HAS BEEN TRANSFORMING TEXTILE NATIONAL PRODUCTION SECTOR
April 1st, 2019
Since China’s Premier Li Keqiang has announced his country’s ‘War on Pollution’ in 2014, the world’s main supplier of synthetic fibres and the second-largest supplier of cotton has consistently reduced its textile sector’s adverse impact on the environment.
The government has introduced a slew of new environmental controls and these continue to be introduced. Inevitably, this has increased costs for textile manufacturers and although official data does not provide a country-wide breakdown on the number of textiles manufacturers that have been forced ...
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