COVID goes on; shift in sectors comes along By ZHONG NAN | China Daily | Updated: 2021-07-28 09:37 A silk company employee works at a production facility in Haian, Jiangsu province, in October. [ZHAI HUIYONG/FOR CHINA DAILY]
Textile industry ramping up efforts to deal with higher costs, global demand
At a warehouse in Changshu, Jiangsu province, workers from Jiangsu Jinlong Technology Co Ltd, a privately owned knitting and weaving machinery manufacturer, loaded 16 flat knitting machines onto a 40-foot ocean shipping container. The goods were destined for the Philippines.
Even though eight sets of such machines on average were shipped together before this year, the company started to use double-layered steel frame structure packaging to ensure safe deliveries, and now a 40-foot container can be loaded with up to 28 machines. This saves on shipping costs and helps machinery exporters cope with difficulties caused by limited availability of larg