China’s ministry of industry and information technology has recently released announcement No. 17 of 2016, which published updates to a number of textile and apparel industry standards. The standards include some product standards for apparel and textile accessories such as FZ/T 81001-2016 for pajamas, FZ/T 81015-2016 for wedding gown and full dress, FZ/T 73002-2016 for knitted caps, FZ/T 81012-2016 for woven scarf and shawl, etc. The updates include some textile test method standards such as FZ/T 01030-2016 for ‘Knitted fabric and elastic woven fabric – Determination of bursting strength and bursting distension-Bursting method’, FZ/T 01031-2016 for ‘Knitted fabric and elastic woven fabric – Determination of maximum force to seam rupture and elongation – the grab tensile method’, FZ/T 01131-2016 for ‘Textiles-Quantitative chemical analysis-Mixtures of natural cellulose fibres and certain regenerated cellulose fibres (hydrochloric acid method)’, FZ/T 80008-2016 for ‘Terms relating to woven caps’, and FZ/T 80010-2016 for ‘Clothes –survey method for human body head girth and size designation for headwear’.
