1, The second members’ congress of china industrial textile industry association was held. A new leader group was generated by election. The second council of Chinese industrial textile industry was founded, and comrade Zhu minru was reappointed as president.

2, In 2006, the output of Chinese industrial textile reached 4.537 million tons. The process amount of industrial textile fibre accounts for 14.2% of the total fibre process amount of the textile industry. This is the first time for this percentage to go higher than 14% since 2000.

3, The output of Chinese nonwovens reached 1.3966 million tons in 2006. This data is higher than that of 2005(1.117 tons) by 219 thousand tons. The annual growth rate arrives at 18.66%. Particularly, the output of nonwovens such as spunbond, acupuncture, pulp air flow into a network and water stabs represent rapid growth.

4, The 7th Chinese international industrial textiles and nonwovens exhibition was held in shanghai.

5, The ceremony of awarding Chinese textile industry scientific and technological progress prize of 2006 was held. 14 programs of industrial textile products and nonwoven industry won prizes.

6, China realized the industrialized production of PMIA. PMIA is a kind of high-temperature resistant fibre. It is of high performance and is indispensable in the fields of high-temperature filter, fire control and protection. Only few countries like Japan and the USA master the technique and are capable of realizing industrialized production in the world.

7, Tongdahaidao new material company became Chinese microfibre industrial base.

8, The export volume of Chinese industrial textiles and nonwoven products increased greatly in 2006. According to the custom statistics: in 2006, Chinese export volume of nonwovens were 188.484 thousand tons, increased by 17.23% than that of 2005; the export volume equaled to 442.64 million dollars, increased by 22.54% than that of 2005.

9, China released and implemented 6 national standards for experiment approach about geotextiles and 2 customs intensity standards as well as 5 national military products standards.

10, Chengdu Hairong Special Textile Corporation has researched and produced a lot of special textile products of high performance for national weaponry.