Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c4.s2.108

v1.c4.s2.108

Yet another major export from India to China in this period, starting from the later 19ᵗʰ century CE, was of manufactured cotton yarn. Indian cotton yarn displaced British yarn from the China market, and from about 1880 to 1905 almost completely monopolised the market for imported cotton yarn in China. The export of cotton yarn to China played a major role in stabilising the growth of the emerging modern textile industry in India. However, during and after World War I, it was the Chinese cotton yarn industry that developed rapidly and by 1929, China was exporting yarn to India.