Apparel Export Upgrading In The Context Of Global Apparel Production Net

With the surge of global economies, and the development of international & national policy environments, Chinese apparel export have been facing to a huge increase in the last over thirty years. And it has successfully become the biggest apparel export country in the world. The powerful and increasing growth will never come true, without the steady foundation of textile industry and the cluster scale of apparel industry. In the context of global apparel production net, Chinese apparel export industry has abandoned the old way like CMT, and it has achieved as OEM and ODM, sometimes in the way of OBM.This article will take the theory of global apparel production net as reference, and try to find the possible routes of apparel export upgrading. Firstly, we will analyze the current situation of Chinese apparel export industry. In detail, the scale & structure of Chinese apparel export industry, also its relevant export markets, and the scale & structure of its competitors. At the meantime, we will detect the global competitive level of Chinese apparel export industry. Secondly, we will try focus on the existing factors which will determine the upgrading of Chinese apparel export industry. At last, we will come up with four different routes of upgrading, taking the type of commodity and the scale of lead firms into consideration.In the context of global apparel production net, the core profit and core competitiveness will be controlled and managed by the lead firms. It will be the only way for upgrading, in which the apparel export firms continue to develop and find the plausible routes. Since the apparel export firms gain the upgrading, they will get the persistent and overwhelming competitiveness.