Dear readers:

When Summer leaves turn to gold,the Mother Nature changes to a seasonal wonder of beauty shinning kaleido—scopic radiance of colors and enchantments in Autumn,a season of harvest for your perspiration out of what you sow and grow in Spring and Summer,and a season of preparation for what will be in store to weather the cold Winter.

The special issue of CHINA TEXTILE is published at the autumnal time when the official data report for the third quar—ter and the first three quarters in the national economic harvest was released by National Bureau of Statistics just a couple of days ago,showing a 4.9 percent growth of GDP in the third quarter as against 5.2 percent curve—up in the first three quarters as a whole according to the preliminary accounting system.The economic harvest proves to be so far so good in this gingko—golden and maple—blazing season if we turn back to the government report made by Chinese new Premier Liqiang who addressed the National People’s Congress in March this year,promising to bring the country’s economic growth to a new level around 5 percent with 12 million new jobs additionally created in the 2023 prospect.If the pres—ent growth momentum keeps on,there is no doubting that China will still be an important engine for the world economic growth in spite of some impactful incidents going on here and there on global basis.

With this,the textile economy was also experiencing a period of expansion in business prospect index and steady recovery in production index in the fact that the comprehensive business prospect index in the textile in—dustry was shown at 55.9% level,11.6 percentage points regained over the same period last year,wherein the new orders index and sale price index were registered at the highest level in the course of recovery growth since last year.The production was gaining steady recovery,but was still hindered by the complicated factors of external situation,showing a slow and steady production stepping— up in the vertically integrated industrial chain with different growth rate across the sectors,namely,83.8% in capacity operational rate in man—made fiber sector and 76.4% in textile(yarn,fabric and made—ups) sector.

Export is very susceptible to the impacts of international demand change and trade environmental risk,and the first three quarters witnessed a continued decline in the outbound shipment that totaled $223.15 billion worth of textiles and apparel,down by 10.1%,19.2 percentage points expanded in the fall trend as against the corresponding months last year.

The only way of walking up to the highland of hope,freeing oneself from the swamp of despair,is to stay confi—dent in the pursuit of your business glory and invest in new technology and equipment to keep cutting—edge and in—novative to survive and prosper.The upcoming ITMA ASIA+CITME 2022 that will be held at the National Convention and Exhibition Center,Shanghai during November 19—23,2023 is the right event,the world—class textile and gar—ment technology and machinery trade platform,to provide the latest new solutions to the problems that challenge the industry.This special edition provides a comprehensive information of this international trade fair,particularly of the Chinese textile machinery industry that is in good position to serve the domestic and international clients with innovative,digital and sustainable solutions catering to the market needs.