Dongxing Textile Market in south China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous
region is often crowded with traders from Mong Cai of Vietnam, who
will sell most of the cloth they buy to Southeast Asia, especially
Vietnam.
The cloth from the market accounts for 90 percent of the total
textile market in Vietnam, which means about 90 percent of the
Vietnamese wear garments whose cloth came from China, said Yang
Shuilin, deputy general manager of Dongxing textile market.
Occupying an area of 20,000 square meters, the Dongxing Textile
Market, the largest market of its kind in southwest China, has 318
stands and 30 storage areas and sells more than 1,500 kinds of
cloth collected from across China, including silk, flax and
lacework.
In
the past, the Vietnamese preferred dark-colored cloth made with
low-cost chemical fibers, Yang recalled.
The establishment of the Free Trade Zone between China and the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has greatly
increased the sales volume and the variety of cloth sold to Vietnam
from China.
Chen Youguo, a businessman from east China's Zhejiang province, has
been engaged in textile trade for some 10 years.
"Vietnam has a higher demand for cloth now, not only in designs but
also in quality," said Chen, who is contended with his monthly
income of more than 5 million yuan (about 604,500 US dollars) from
selling cloth.
(Xinhua News Agency May 8, 2003)