Vietnam exported more than 500 million medical masks in the

Economic Daily - China economic network Hanoi, July 14, reporter Zhao Qing reported: according to the statistics of Vietnam General Administration of customs, in June, 100 enterprises in Vietnam exported 236 million medical masks, with a month on month increase of 30%, and a total of 557 million medical masks were exported in the first half of the year.

With the advantage of cheap labor force, the textile industry has become the third pillar industry of Vietnam's export, and Vietnam has also become the third largest textile and clothing exporter in the world, after China and India. Statistics show that Vietnam's total textile export in 2019 is as high as 39 billion US dollars. Among them, the European and American markets are the important export markets of Vietnam's textile industry.

Since the outbreak of novel coronavirus pneumonia, Vietnam has been the third largest textile exporter in the world, and the loss of orders has been a great loss. As one of the measures for Vietnam's enterprises to survive the epidemic and expand their production capacity, they regard it as one of the measures for Vietnam's enterprises to expand their export capacity and meet their needs. Since April, with the better control of the epidemic situation in Vietnam, the export of masks has risen sharply. In April and may, 140 million and 182 million medical masks were exported respectively. The United States, Germany, Singapore, South Korea and other countries and regions are the main export markets of Vietnamese masks.

However, experts said that although Vietnam has advantages in the production scale of the textile industry, there are still obvious shortcomings in the industrial chain, such as the lack of capacity to produce raw materials, and a large number of foreign imports are needed every year.