Textile and garment production

In Lu'an, there are now more than 40 textile and garment enterprises and 150,000 spindles of cotton ingot and over 3,000 sets of machinery with an output of 30,000 ton of yarns, 30 million meters of cloth, 1,200 ton of knitted fabric, 2,000 ton of silk, more than 300 million pieces and sets of all kinds of clothing and household textiles, and 100 million series of product of bags.

There is more than 40,000 workers in the local textile enterprises and 600,000. More outside Lu'an working in the garment industry. The short-term development target (for the next decade or more) is to give full play of resources advantages in raw textile materials, the rich labor resources and the locationally advantageous position of transportation to respond to the transference of the industry in the eastern costal regions.