Keqiao Fabric Market: Sourcing Guide for Overseas Buyers

Last fact-checked: November 9, 2026.

The Keqiao page that opened on 9 November 2026 is the online China Textile City at qfc.cn. Its East Market overview lists three floors of cloth types, 2,000-plus merchants, and 100,000-plus textile products. It does not describe the whole market group's area or turnover.

Wider figures for China Textile City, including floor area and annual turnover, sit on Keqiao government pages that did not open that day (the requests timed out). Those figures are not used here. If you have seen a 2008 turnover and a 2024 turnover in the same breath, you have seen two generations of the same story. This article will not pick a winner it could not re-open.

A typical case

A cutter needs 5,000 meters of one printed cloth, about 150 centimeters usable width, weight written in grams per square meter, composition written in percent. A one-meter sample ships first. The bulk is rolls, not pieces. The quote says FOB Ningbo or another named port only after the rolls exist. This is a typical case. The composition below is an illustration of how to write a line, not a product you can order from this page, and there is no price.

The homepage, the same day, showed a purchasing line whose visible text was SPEC:60X40+20WEIGHT:85GWIDTH:52/53COMP:73%C24%N3%. The link text ends there, so the third fiber is not fully named on that line. It is a buyer's request on the site, not a stock promise. It is still a useful picture of how Keqiao writes cloth: construction, weight, width, fiber. A garment quote that says only "cotton dress" is a different language.

The East Market rows, as the homepage prints them

The block is labeled East Market overview. It is one zone.

Floor on that overview	Cloth types printed
1	尼丝纺, 春亚纺, 涤塔夫, 提花, 印花. In the trade those names are usually read as nylon taffeta, pongee, polyester taffeta, jacquard, and print. Match the Chinese on the booth card.
2	绒布, 里布, 卫衣, 汗布, 泳装. Fleece, lining, sweatshirt cloth, jersey, and swim cloth are the usual English readings.
3	绒布, 卫衣, 汗布, 罗马, 平板. Fleece, sweatshirt cloth, jersey, roma, and a plain knit. The page does not define 平板 further.

Floors 2 and 3 overlap. The page does not explain the split. Ask which building door and which floor your cloth is on. The 2,000-plus merchants and 100,000-plus products sit in the same overview. They are East Market figures on that screen, not a count of every Keqiao hall. The page does not date them beyond the day you load it.

The same homepage reported the 28th China Shaoxing Keqiao textile fair, autumn session, as opening on 5 November and closing on 7 November. The lines did not print a year beside those days. Read on 9 November 2026, they were presented as current news. The next session's dates were not in that block.

Meters are not pieces

A clothing hall sells a size run and a sew. Keqiao, on this page, sells a width and a hand-feel. Guangzhou's finished-garment stops are Baima, Shisanhang, and Shahe. Yiwu's sock floor is knitted goods already made: District 4 socks. If you need both cloth and a finished sock, they are two orders.

For the EU, fibre names on a textile product follow Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011. Open the EUR-Lex text rather than copying a percentage off a hanger. The Commission page on the textiles ecosystem links the same labelling regulation: textiles, leather and fur. This article does not restate the legal percentages.

What to pin down

Composition in percent. Width. Weight. The print repeat, if the cloth is printed. The dye lot, because the next roll can shift. Which zone of the market, because the East Market list is not the city. A one-meter sample under your own light, before the roll count. Minimums, when the mill states them, are read the way any other minimum is read: MOQ meaning. The meter you approve is a sample, even though it is cloth and not a finished product.

Under the floor list, the same homepage links supporting services: greige mills, dyeing and printing, and pattern design, plus market prices and fair news. Those are labels on the page. They are not a promise that a booth on floor 1 will dye a new color this week. Ask who does the dyeing and where the greige comes from before you treat a print photo as a stock item.

qfc.cn describes itself as the official online trading platform of China Textile City in Keqiao: textile information, a product directory, and online trade. A counter number on a screen is still something you confirm before you pay. Who searches and who compares quotes, if you are not going yourself, starts at the sourcing desk.

Finished clothing bought as pieces, rather than cloth, is also the subject of wholesale clothing distributors.

What usually goes wrong

• Using a city-wide turnover figure from a page that will not open. Leave it out.
• Ordering "the print in the photo" without width and weight. The photo has neither.
• Mixing a Keqiao meter order and a Guangzhou piece order on one invoice. The units do not add.

Put width, weight, composition, meters, and the Incoterm on the RFQ. The three-letter rules are Incoterms 2020.

Frequently asked questions

Is qfc.cn the whole of China Textile City?

It is the online platform, and the floor list above is the East Market overview on the homepage. Government pages that describe the wider group did not open on 9 November 2026.

When is the Keqiao fabric fair?

The homepage reported the 28th autumn session as 5 to 7 November, without a year on those lines, and presented it as news on the day this page was checked. The following session was not listed.

Can I buy finished shirts here?

The East Market rows are cloth types, including some garment-weight knits such as jersey and sweatshirt cloth. A finished, sized shirt is a clothing-market question.

See also China Wholesale Markets by Product Category.

Sources

• qfc.cn, China Textile City online. Opened 9 November 2026. East Market floors, the 2,000-plus and 100,000-plus figures in that overview, a sample purchase spec, and the 28th autumn fair note.
• EUR-Lex: Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011. Textile fibre names and labelling.
• European Commission: textiles ecosystem. Points to the textile labelling regulation.
• ICC: Incoterms 2020. The term you name once the rolls are real.