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Chinese textile firms see first profit fall in 10 years: state media
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BEIJING (AFP) - - Profits at Chinese textile firms fell in part of 2008 for the first time in 10 years due to a drop in overseas demand amid the global financial crisis, state media reported Thursday.
Textile companies made an overall 104.2 billion yuan (15 billion dollars) in profits in the first 11 months of last year, a fall of 1.8 percent compared to the same period in 2007, the official Xinhua news agency quoted the National Bureau of Statistics as saying.
"This was the first decline in profits for the country's textile sector in 10 years," Wang Qianjin, chief editor of webtextiles.com, a Chinese website specialising in textiles, told Xinhua.
China's textile industry suffered last year -- even before the financial crisis hit -- due to a strengthening of the yuan against the dollar and rising costs of labour and raw materials.
In the first quarter of 2008, exports of textiles and clothes fell 11 percent to 81.86 billion dollars.
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