The prosperity monitoring results of the China Commercial Circulation Association of Textile and Apparel (CATA) show that in May 2020, the national textile and apparel professional market manager’s prosperity index was 51.13, an increase of 0.54 percentage points from 50.59 in April; the professional market merchants’ prosperity index was 50.13, an increase of 1.21 percentage points from 48.92 in May.
1. The manager’s and merchant’s prosperity index rebounded
Data shows that in May, various prosperity indexes of national textile and apparel professional market managers and merchants have rebounded.
1.1 The manager’s prosperity index rose by 0.54 percentage points
1.2 The merchant’s prosperity index increased by 1.21 percentage points
2. Data analysis
The subsequent impact of the epidemic gradually appeared, and the rental pressure in the professional market increased; merchants are actively adapting to the new situation, and sales are gradually picking up.
3. The pre-judgment index is all below the threshold of 50
The data shows that in terms of managers, the next manager’s prosperity index is 49.03, an increase of 0.32 percentage points from 48.71 in April; the next operating environment index is 48.71, a decrease of 0.32 percentage points from 49.03 in April. In terms of merchants, the next merchant’s prosperity index is 49.03, an increase of 1.34 percentage points from 47.69 in April; the operating environment index for the next period is 48.41, an increase of 0.72 percentage points from 47.69 in April. In terms of predictive index, the four predictive indexes of managers and merchants began to rise slowly after repeated, but the overall is still below the threshold of 50, which shows that the market and merchants still have insufficient confidence in the future situation of the industry.