According to the physical form, cotton is divided into seed cotton and leather cotton. The cotton farmers pick from the cotton tree is called seed cotton, seed cotton after seed processing is called lint, and cotton in the usual sense refers to lint.

Since 2008, the coastal generation of textile and garment enterprises have been enduring the pain brought by the financial crisis. Prices of raw materials, reduced sales of enterprises, increased labor costs and other factors are superimposed.

A group of research results on the integration of more than 2,000 textile enterprises show that at present, the digitalization rate of domestic textile production equipment has reached 36.06%