BEIJING, June 15 (Xinhua) -- China's textile and garment exports in the first five months of the year totaled 96.16 billion U.S. dollars, down 1.17 percent year on year, official data showed.
The decrease narrowed by 8.8 percentage points from the figure in the January-April period, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).
From January to May, the country's textile exports climbed 21.3 percent year on year to total 57.95 billion dollars, while garment exports dropped 22.8 percent to 38.21 billion dollars.
In May alone, led by the export of face masks, textile exports came in at 20.65 billion dollars, up 77.3 percent from a year ago, MIIT data showed.
China exported more than 70.6 billion masks and 340 million protective suits from March to May, according to a white paper titled "Fighting COVID-19: China in Action."
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