CHINA: Textile Machinery Sector Grows By 669 Per Cent
China's textile machinery industry on Friday posted an amazing 669.1 per cent surge in profit to 370 million yuan ($44.7m) for January to August 2001, compared to the year-ago period. Sales of textile machinery jumped 54.76 per cent during the eight month period to 12 billion yuan ($1.4bn), according to the latest data from the National Bureau of Statistics.