With the reform and open-up, especially after China joined WTO, China’s high economic growth has spurred the rapidly rising on consumption of laundry care products.
It is forecast that the consumption will increase quickly in the next five years with the quick development of Chinese economy and the improvement of people’s living conditions. The demand for laundry care products reached 3.29 million metric tons in 2001. The total market demand for laundry care products is projected to reach 4.3 million metric tons by 2006, increasing 5.7% per annum. In 2001, China’s total output of laundry care products reached 3.3 million metric tons. Despite new improvements in construction and capacity expansion, China’s laundry care products demand will continue to outstrip supply as to some kinds of laundry care products. In 2001, China imported 60,400 metric tons of laundry care products, which mainly are the high quality products. At the same time, China also exported 72,600 metric tons. With the research and development, China will continue to increase its exports.
