As the world’s largest producer and exporter of textiles, China’s fabric industry is quite complete and mature. If you want to start a fabric business, you can consider wholesaling or customizing from China. You will get a variety of low-cost and high-quality fabrics here.
Today’s post will help you understand the basic information about China’s fabric market. Let’s have a look.
Where is the textile market in China?
China’s textile industry cluster is mainly concentrated in Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shanghai, and Fujian provinces, which have lots of textile manufacturing and processing factories. Any fabric you want to import, such as silk, cotton, polyester, knitting, etc., can be found in these areas.
The prices are lower in these places, because factors such as the abundance of raw materials (e.g. cotton, silk) and lower labor costs have reduced the cost of fabric manufacturing. In addition, the technology of factories is also mature. Not only the manufacturing lead time is short, but also the fabric uniformity is good.
Textile industry clusters in China
Top 10 wholesale fabrics/textile markets in China
Guangzhou China Fabrics & Accessories Center（广州国际轻纺城）
Guangzhou China Fabrics & Accessories Center is mainly engaged in clothing fabrics such as cotton, linen, silk, denim, nylon cotton, leather, etc., and accessories such as tags, hardware, buttons, zippers, lace, etc.
Zhongda Fabric Market（中大布料市场）
Zhongda fabric market is the largest wholesale market of fabrics and accessories in Guangzhou, with 59 sub-markets and nearly 23,000 wholesalers. It mainly supplies various kinds of fabrics, wool, ready-to-wear clothing, and accessories. The accessories over here can be found and done as long as they are available on the market.
Dongguan Humen Fabric & Accessory Markets（虎门国际布料市场）
Dongguan Humen Fabric & Accessory Markets are mainly engaged in various clothing fabrics, curtain cloth, and grey cloth. There are also various accessories such as zippers, buttons, decoration hardware, tags, sequins, etc.
Shaoxing Keqiao textile fabric market （中国轻纺城）
Shaoxing Keqiao textile fabric market is China’s largest fabric wholesale market, with most printworks and textile mills. Keqiao textile market has basically formed a complete industrial chain from chemical fiber, weaving, printing and dyeing, clothing, and home textile to textile machinery and equipment. It is at the forefront of the country and even the world.
Haining China Home Textile City（海宁中国家纺城）
Haining China Home Textile City mainly deals in all kinds of home textile decorative fabrics and hotel textiles. It is the professional home textiles market in China and an important production and sale center of curtain fabrics as well as global jacquard home textiles.
Jiaxing China Southern Textile City（嘉兴·中国南方纺织城）
Jiaxing China Southern Textile City has a total of 588 shops, which are divided into chemical fiber raw materials, clothing accessories, and textile fabrics. It mainly supplies textiles, silk, and various fabrics.
China Dieshiqiao International Home Textile City（中国叠石桥国际家纺城）
Located in Nantong, Jiangsu province, Dieshiqiao International Home Textile City has a history of more than 40 years. It mainly supplies more than 300 kinds of bedding, such as bedspreads, pillowcases, quilt covers, quilts, and various household appliance covers, curtains, cushions, etc. Its home textile products have a national market share of 50%.
China Oriental Silk Market （中国东方丝绸市场）
China Oriental Silk Market is located in Shengze town, Jiangsu province. It mainly supplies more than 10 categories and thousands of varieties of silk, chemical fiber fabrics, home textiles, decorative fabrics, clothing, textile raw materials, etc. Silk products printed with the golden seal of “Shengze, Jiangsu” are very popular in the international market and are sold to more than 100 countries and regions in the world.
Shanghai Light Textile Market（上海市轻纺市场）
Located in Quanzhou, Fujian province, Shishi Clothing City is mainly engaged in the production of textile fabrics. It has formed an industrial chain covering textile raw materials, spinning and weaving, printing and dyeing, garment processing, accessory production, and other fields in the past 20 years.
China fabric wholesale websites online
There are many fabric manufacturers on Chinese wholesale websites. You can easily find them on Alibaba, made-in-china, Aliexpress & DHgate, etc. Note that more than 70% of the suppliers are actually trading companies, not real fabric factories. But they can all help you wholesale fabric from China.
When you seek suitable suppliers online, remember not to put too much faith in the low price. Those low-priced suppliers may ask for far more MOQ than you need. That is, you can only get this competitive price when you buy the quantity up to his MOQ, or the quality of the product they sell is not up to your requirements. So you still need to balance the price and quality.
How to import fabric from China?
There are 3 steps to importing fabric from China.
Select suppliers
Based on your target product, you should choose suppliers in the industry clusters I mentioned above, so you can get a more competitive price.
For example, if you want to import silk fabrics, you’d better select suppliers in Zhejiang and Jiangsu Provinces. Because these two provinces have a long history of silk culture and a large output (accounting for 50% of the national silk output). On Alibaba, when you search for “silk fabric”, 16 of the first 20 suppliers are in these two areas.
Then you should check and choose several suppliers (at least 2-3) to describe your wholesale or custom requirements.
Confirm the details and get a quote
You should communicate with suppliers in detail, such as size, custom graphics, the suture method, etc., and let them send you samples. According to the samples, their quotation and communication, you can choose the most suitable one. If you feel that the sample does not meet your requirements, you can ask the factory to adjust it until you are satisfied.
Place your order and arrange to ship
In this step, you can place your order. The factory will arrange mass production and shipment according to shipping incoterms. You’d better arrange quality control before your cargo leaves China, which is a good way to avoid defective products in the goods you receive exceeding your acceptable level.
Why do you choose JingSourcing as your fabric wholesale agent?
Besides these Chinese wholesale websites, another simple way to seek fabric suppliers is to find a sourcing company, just like JingSourcing. Located in Yiwu, Zhejiang province, we can provide one-stop services from supplier selection, mass production follow-up, and quality control to shipment. We are good at the following aspects.
We help you select multiple suppliers and samples
There are lots of fabric suppliers in China. If you select by yourself, you may spend lots of time and energy but not pick out a suitable one. Once you choose us as your sourcing agent, we will look for suppliers matching your requirements from dozens or even hundreds, all of which are located in industrial clusters.
We will package the samples from different suppliers and send them to you together. You can compare these samples at the same time, which can save you a lot of time and express costs.
Lower MOQ is available
Many factories have their MOQ. If your order quantity is small and doesn’t meet their requirements, they will refuse to work with you. We can help you work out a good solution because we have long-term cooperative suppliers. Even if the MOQ is small or it is troublesome to make, they are willing to produce for us.
We are professional in sourcing various fabrics
We often help our clients source various regular fabrics, such as clothing fabrics and decorative fabrics for curtains and sofas, etc. In addition, we can also source special functional fabrics, such as photochromic fiber and thermochromic fiber, which can be made of automatic color-adjusting t-shirts and automatic temperature jackets.
In addition, we can also arrange factory audits, fabric quality control, and shipment if you need.
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