The milestone advancement was pioneered by scientist Guo Sandui and his team at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. The breakthrough won wide acclaim from officials and experts over the weekend. Building on his success of insect-resistant, genetically-modified cotton, of which 2.3 million hectares was planted this year, Guo's research team in 1999 started to work out a molecular breeding system for hybrid cotton. After years of hard work, Guo, the "father of Chinese Bt transgenetic cot

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) cotton breeders received innovation award.CSIRO Plant Industry's cotton breeding team won Innovate Australia's Australian Government Prize for Rural Innovation from hundreds of rural innovation contenders Australia-wide. Presented at Parliament House in Canberra by the Deputy Prime Minister, the Hon. Mark Vaile, the award for excellence in rural research and development was accepted by Dr Jeremy Burdon, Chief of CSIRO Plant Ind

Chinese Customs authorities revealed that polyester output for August on year to year basis rose 16.30 percent.At 16.30 percent, the polyester production went up to 1.37 million tons.However, this was down 2 percent from July, this year.Key polyster production areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang accounted for 959,500 tons, that is 70 percent of country's output. Jiangsu alone contributed 423,700 tons, shooting up 21.19 percent from previous year's output, while Zhejiang's production rose 24.87 percent

China is likely to adopt a bidding method in allocating the textile quotas for the next year, in order to ensure fair play during the process, according to information from the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Textiles. This move was made upon the request of many textile manufacturers in China. It will also help bet-ter manage exporters' performance. Currently, China's allocation of textile quotas, particularly from the European Union (EU), was based on textile dealers' shipmen

Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics is organised by Messe Frankfurt (HK) Ltd and The Sub-Council of Textile Industry, CCPIT. Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics China International Trade Fair for Apparel Fabrics and Acces-sorieswill be held at Shanghai New International Expo Centre on 26-29 October,2005. A temporary hall to be constructed at Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics 2005 due to demand for space Many market leading companies show their confidence in the fair. Due to a huge demand

While the traditional weaving sector continued its shrinking spell in 2005, total weaving industry output was bolstered by the specialty segment. Europa Index of Output (2000=100) for Jan-July (seven months) averaged 79.7, which represented just 1.8 percent year-on-year decline. Traditional cotton weaving output averaged a 7.5 percent monthly year-on-year decline showing worst ever performance. Worsted weaving registered an average 3.3 percent monthly decline, dropping to an indexed output of 55

Today Australian Wool Innovation Limited (AWI) welcomed the decision by Justice Hely of the Federal Court of Australia to allow its amended statement of claim and accept its application to serve proceedings on PETA and people associated with it in the United States.Justice Hely also ruled that Ms Ingrid Newkirk, President of PETA, pay AWI? costs in relation to her unsuccessful strike-out application.Mr Targ said the Australian Wool and Sheep Industry Taskforce, which represents all peak national

Chinese textile firms, bogged down by quotas slapped by the United States and Europe, are standing up against trade barriers and market uncertainties. "We've given up 5 million yuan (617,000 US dollars) of US orders in the recent three months because no one knows when the textile trade row can be settled properly," said Huang Jun, vice president of Tianjin Textile Group, in an exclusive interview with Xinhua Friday. Her company is not alone to shun the US market. In fact, every textile dealer in

China and the United States will hold a new round of negotiations on textile trade in Washington during September 26 and 27, the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) announced on Friday. The ministry did not reveal any details. The US Trade Representative office said that the delegations would be led by David Spooner, the chief US negotiator on textile trade, and by Lu Jianhua, director of the Foreign Trade Department of MOFCOM. The new meeting comes after US-Chinese textile talks in Beijing ended late

On going textile friction between China and US, and the recently resolved issue of import quotas with European Union has impacted on the demand for cotton in China on the lower side, industry sources reveal.Already textile exports from China have been badly hit, what with EU having released 87 million pieces of garments, textiles that were blocked at European ports having exceeded the predetermined levels of imports from China.But more important are the restricition on 10 textile categories from