China National Textiles Import & Export Corporation (abbreviated as CHINATEX), founded in November 1951, is a specialized foreign trade corporation directly attached to the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation of the People's Republic of China.

Chinatex mainly specializes in all kinds of textile materials, textile finished products/semi-finished products, garments, knitwear, cotton and woolen products and other imports and exports approved by the State.

Furthermore, Chinatex acts as an agent of the above business, undertakes joint-ventures, cooperative production, and technological import and export, proccsses the imported parts, manufactures parts according to the samples provided by over-seas partner;Assembles with imported parts;Carries out compen-sation trade, counter trade, barter, entrepot trade through the third party.It also undertakes international transportation, advertising and publicity, consultation services of international trade, commo-dities exhibition and technological exchange.