China's cotton textile industry saw a slight increase in the output from Jan. to Nov. this year, according to Xu Wenying, president of the China CottonTextile Industry Association. Looking further, from Jan to Nov, yarn output of the industry reached 21.69 million tons, up 9.8 per cent from the previous year's period; fabric 51.34 billion metres, up 4.42% year-on-year. Goods delivered for cotton textiles and cotton garments exports slumped 14.42 per cent to $55.933 billion in the past eight months from the year-earlier period. Main business income of China's cotton industry edged up 10.57 per cent to 889.0 billion yuan.