The 15th China Fashion Fair kicked off on 1st, September. This three days fair is held in Sunshine City, Tokyo, which attracts 242 Chinese garment enterprises to display their products here. The very first China Fashion Fair was held in 2003 in Osaka. With its development, it wins the reputation among China and Japan's fashion industries. Now, it has become an important bridge for communication of fashion industries in both countries.
According to one organizer of this fair, the export value of Chinese textiles and garments to Japan reaches 20 billion US dollars a year. Garment trade is a key part of the bilateral trade.
In terms of the cooperation between two garment industries, it is the primary pattern of cooperation that Japan delivers orders and China produces. However, this pattern cannot consist with the changing markets in both countries. Chinese enterprises face heavy pressures from rising labor cost, material cost and environment protection so they have to choose the orders. Moreover, Chinese enterprises begin to pay more attention to the domestic market. As a result, both garments industries should work hard to find a new cooperation pattern.
Japanese garment enterprises are superior in design, technology and human resources and so on but the cooperation in these areas is rare. So enterprises from Japan and China should make use of this fair to deepen their cooperation.
