1、Overview of the Fabric Industry
Fabric products are a sub-industry of home textiles, including curtains and window screens, door curtains, sandpaper, furniture decorative fabrics, wall-mounted decorative fabrics, wall mounted, other fabric decorative products, and household fabric products.
2、 The current development status of the fabric industry
1. Scale and Product Structure of China's Textile Industry
Since the 1980s, there have been specialized textile production enterprises. After more than 30 years of development, with the improvement of Chinese residents' consumption level and housing conditions, the use of textile products has become increasingly widespread, and the scale and pattern of the textile market are constantly developing and improving. In 2015, the output value reached 224.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.8%, with a slower growth rate compared to previous years. Among them, the export output value is 57.4 billion yuan, accounting for 25.6% of the fabric output value. Compared with previous years, the export proportion has slightly decreased, and fabric products have gradually shifted from export to domestic sales. The domestic sales value is 167 billion yuan, accounting for approximately 74.4% of the fabric production value. In the domestic market, the scale advantage of the curtain market is particularly prominent. The total output value of curtain fabric production and finished product processing reaches 80% of the domestic sales value of fabric, and the total output value of sofa fabric and other fabric products accounts for about 20%
2. Industrial layout
The fabric industry rose from Guangdong, and the earliest enterprises engaged in the production of fabric products were mainly concentrated in the Pearl River Delta and Hangzhou Bay area. After 30 years of development, fabric production, and processing enterprises have rapidly expanded in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shandong, and other places. For more than 30 years of development, China's textile industry has gone through a stage of development from scratch and from existence to comprehensiveness. With the development of the industry and the rapid growth of consumer demand, curtain domestic retail processing enterprises have emerged. From and second-tier cities to third and fourth-tier cities, a nationwide retail processing system has been formed, which has effectively promoted the development of the fabric industry.
In the fabric industry, fabric production enterprises are mainly distributed in the eastern coastal areas, including Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shandong, Guangdong, Fujian, and other regions. Among them, the scale advantage of fabric production in Zhejiang Province is particularly obvious, accounting for 59.7% of the national total, the output value of fabric production in Jiangsu Province accounts for 20.6% of the national total, and the output value of other provinces and cities accounts for 19.7%. Zhejiang Province has outstanding advantages in China's fabric industry, with nearly 70% of the nearly 300 fabric production enterprises above the designated size listed by the National Bureau of Statistics. The processing and sales of fabric products are distributed throughout the country, with backbone and brand enterprises mainly concentrated in provincial capital cities and key regional cities, with strong regional targeting and radiation functions.
3、 Market size and transaction volume of textile specialty
With the prosperous development of the fabric industry, the professional fabric market has achieved synchronous prosperity. The number of shops in the fabric professional market is steadily increasing, and the market size is gradually expanding. As of the end of 2015, the number of shops in the national fabric professional market was 16500, a year-on-year increase of 2.48%; The market operating area was 1.4131 million square meters, a year-on-year increase of 2.85%; Fabric Specialty Market.
4、 Regional characteristics of the distribution of the fabric professional market
Affected by the distribution of the textile industry, the textile professional market presents certain regional characteristics. The fabric industry in the eastern region is developed, and the competition and maturity of the fabric professional market are relatively high. The market size and transaction volume are significantly higher than those in other regions. In 2015, the operating area of the textile professional market in the eastern region was 986200 square meters, accounting for 69.79% of the total operating area of the national textile professional market. The operating areas of the western, central, and northeastern regions are 94400 square meters, 174800 square meters, and 157700 square meters, respectively, accounting for 6.68%, 12.37%, and 11.16%, respectively.
From the perspective of market transaction volume, the sales revenue of the fabric market in the eastern region reached 37.848 billion yuan, accounting for 73.79% of the total sales revenue of the professional fabric market. The market sales in the western, central, and northeastern regions were 4.452 billion yuan, 4.806 billion yuan, and 4.185 billion yuan, respectively, accounting for 8.68%, 9.37%, and 8.16% of the total sales.
The professional fabric market in the eastern region is mainly concentrated in the Jiangsu Zhejiang region and Guangdong region, which has not only become the largest production area of fabric products in China but also formed the largest professional market, promoting the circulation of products.
5 The market efficiency and shop efficiency of the fabric professional market
According to statistics from the Circulation Branch of the China Textile Industry Federation, there were a total of 16500 specialized fabric market shops in China in 2015, with a total operating area of 1.4131 million square meters and an average operating area of 85.6 square meters per shop. The efficiency of fabric specialty market shops is 3.1086 million yuan per shop, and the market efficiency is 36300 yuan per square meter. Comparing the efficiency of shops in the home textile and clothing professional markets in the table below, it can be seen that the efficiency of shops for fabric products is much higher than that of peers in the home textile and clothing professional markets.