Chinese cotton textile history:
The establishment of the Shanghai machine weaving layout in 1889, with 35,000 spindles and 530 cloth machines, was the beginning of China's establishment of a machine-made cotton textile factory. Since then, China’s self-run cotton textile factories have appeared in various coastal areas. By 1911, there were 830,000 spindles and more than 2,000 cloth machines. The production scale of China’s cotton textile industry was initially formed, producing various low-count cotton yarns for domestic use. For market weaving. Because the production efficiency of machine weaving is not much higher than that of hand weaving, the profit is not big. The weaving of cotton cloth on manual looms is more advantageous, so the emerging cotton spinning factories have fast development of spinning spindles, and the increase of looms is small. By 1936, the number of spindles and 30,000 sets of cloth machines in Chinese cotton textile factories across the country had been expanded to 2.9 million. By 1980, the scale of cotton spinning had reached 17.8 million spindles and more than 500,000 cloth machines. It had become an industry that had a major bearing on the national economy, and its production per thousand spindles had become the world's largest.