Study and comparison on international competitiveness of China's textile and apparel industry since China's entering into the WTO

This paper first elaborated the import and export situation of China's textile and apparel from China's entering into WTO in 2001 till 2011.Then three evaluating indexes of international market share were selected,net trade balance(NTB) and revealed comparative advantage(RCA) index to estimate and compare China's textile and apparel's competence from 2001 to 2011.The result showed that from 2001 to 2011,the international competitiveness of China' s textile showed a shock rise,but the performance of the three indexes of China's apparel are not the same.At last,some suggestions are given on how to improve the international competitiveness of China's textile and apparel from the aspects of government,textile industry and textile enterprises.