While the world economy is heading to the toilet and Chinese manufacturers are preparing to feel the pinch because their overseas buyers will have no cash, Alibaba.com is hoping a new round of international advertising will maintain its growth with helping connect Chinese suppliers with foreign customers.

Suzhou Deylon Textiles Co., Ltd, a large joint venture specializing in the manufacturing of Arab headscarves, has passed the field audits carried out by the Swiss Textile Testing Institute TESTEX for the certification of Oeko-Tex Standard 1000.

To regulate the export order of eight kinds of monitored textile products which will be exported to the European Union, China's Ministry of Commerce has released the "Notice on Verification of Export Permits of Some Textiles Exported to European Union".

U.S.-based, Heelys, a youth sports lifestyle company, announced the opening of its first China representative office in Qingdao.