Health Care Textiles Sprung Up

In recent years, in pursuit of healthy eating, people have put "out of health" and "sleep out of health" as the fashion pursuit to improve the quality of life and life.

With high technology and high added value health care functions, textiles have sprung up and become a new growth point in the textile industry.

Health care knitted and household textiles account for about 8% of knitted products and home textiles. Sales of health care functional textiles in 2009 reached 100 billion yuan, increasing by 20% annually.

Health care function

In the health products industry, health care functional textiles have reached the annual sales of "big brother" health food.

In 2009, the annual sales of health food in China amounted to US $13 billion 400 million, about RMB 90 billion yuan.

In other words, health care textiles have gone beyond health food.

In the textile industry, it has accounted for about 8% of the knitting industry and home textiles industry, and has become an important new economic growth point in the textile industry.

At present, China's health products are mainly targeted at the middle-aged and elderly market, and the young market has not been very large.

But health textiles can break through this restriction.

This is undoubtedly.

Health care industry is a sunrise industry. It is impossible to rely entirely on the sunset crowd. We must develop distinctive health products and health care services according to different age groups and different consumption needs.

Health care textiles can make traditional textiles from low.

With the rapid development of economy, the per capita income of our country has reached US $3000, and people's living standard and quality of life have been continuously improved. The growing demand for health has ushered in the golden age of consumption, and healthy consumption is unstoppable.

However, the development of health care functional textiles in China has lasted for more than ten years since the 90s of last century, and the pition from disorderly development to consolidation stage is now in progress.

Its characteristics are: rapid development, strong demand for consumption, industry integration, expectation of standardized development, lack of management, lack of standards, uneven product quality and technical level, exaggerated publicity and confusion of price system.

At present, the health function textiles sold on the market claim more than 10 functions of far-infrared, antibacterial, magnetic, negative ions, radiation protection, anti thrombosis and anti varicose veins.

But so far, our country has formulated the association standard for far infrared health care function, magnetic health function, antibacterial and health care function.

The Chinese health care association, the China Association for standardization and the China knitwear industry association are currently developing standards for health protection textiles, such as electromagnetic radiation, negative ions and anti thrombosis, and strive to be completed by the end of this year.

At present, the health care functional textiles as the edge of the textile industry have already become the clue of the mainstream industry.

According to the experts' prediction, the health care function textile industry will continue to maintain a growth rate of over 20% for a considerable period of time. At least in the expected 10 or 20 years, this trend will not weaken.

Therefore, by 2015, the industry is expected to reach the scale of 200 billion yuan, and gradually adjust and pform the traditional textile industry with large yield, high labor costs, excess productivity and lack of competitiveness in the industry to become a high value-added industry with core competitiveness.