The prosperity monitoring results of the China Commercial Circulation Association of Textile and Apparel (CATA) show that in April 2020, the national textile and apparel professional market manager’s prosperity index was 50.59, a decrease of 0.65 percentage points from 51.24 in March; the professional market merchants’ prosperity index was 48.92, a decrease of 2.26 percentage points from 51.18 in March.

The data shows that in April, various prosperity indexes of the national textile and apparel professional market managers and merchants declined.

1.1 Managers’ prosperity index decreased by 0.65 percentage points

1.2 Merchant’s prosperity index decreased by 2.26 percentage points

2.1 The professional market has basically resumed work, and consumption rebound boost has not arrived.

In March, on the basis of relatively abnormal data from January to February, the boom rebounded significantly. In April, the market that selected the total operating volume, logistics shipments, passenger flow, and door opening rate was flat and declining compared with March, accounted for a large proportion. In April, the national market basically achieved full recovery, but the sales situation was not different from that in March. It can be seen that the consumption boom is yet to come, and the operation level of the market and merchants after resumption of work is still a long period of recovery from the normal production and operation level.

2.2 Merchant comprehensive cost index and inventory index rebound

In March, most merchants resumed normal operations, and cost pressure and inventory pressure increased, and the index fell; in April, merchants gradually adapted to the physical operation mode under the normalization of epidemic prevention work, with the launch of new installations and various promotional activities, as a result, the comprehensive cost pressure and inventory pressure of merchants have been alleviated to a certain extent.

2.3 Forecast index fell, and the market managers and merchants are not as optimistic as expected

In terms of predictive indexes, the four predictive indexes of managers and merchants returned below the 50 threshold, which shows that after nearly a month of resumption of work, market managers and merchants are not as optimistic as expected.