Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: from January to June, there were 13067 enterprises above the scale of the clothing industry, with a cumulative operating income of 688.5 billion yuan, an increase of 4.5% over the same period last year, a total profit of 30.7 billion yuan, an increase of 4.0% over the same period last year, a profit margin of 4.5%, an increase of 0.31% over the same period last year, and a loss of 27.0% of the industry, down 0.9% from the same period last year. The output of clothing was 11.3 billion, down 1.5% from the same period last year. The average number of workers employed in the industry was 2.36 million, down 4.3 per cent from the same period last year.