Operating rate of cotton yarn mills moves up

In the second of Nov, epidemic broke out in different regions of China, making main cotton yarn producing places including Shandong, Henan, Hebei and Hunan affected by it. The suspension of production in cotton yarn mills was always heard, making the operating rate of cotton yarn mills reduce continuously to the lowest level within the year. (Exclude Spring Festival) Epidemic control policy has released since the second half of Nov, and the control time of cotton yarn mills was not long and mostly lasted for 7-10days., Suspension of production in some enterprises was over Last week, and some mills recovered operation and production. Epidemic control policy continued to release this week, and Guangdong Zhongda fabric market will reopen soon. The recovery of operation continuously increased in textile enterprises of other regions that suspended production at previous stage due to epidemic. Cotton yarn mills in Xinjiang gradually recovered, and the operating rate rose obviously, and will continue to move up in the future. However, the recovery of operation still needed a period of time due to long-term production suspension and loss of workers. Some Chinese cotton yarn mills still didn’t recover to normal production due to the loss of spinning and the difficulty of procuring cotton. As end-Dec is about to come, it is hard for mills to recover operating rate to the high level in Sep.