China Textile City, the trading heart of Keqiao, offers more than 50,000 fabric varieties through over 38,000 merchants, with sales reaching more than 200 countries and regions. In 2025 the market's transaction volume hit 441.386 billion RMB, up 10.07% year on year. Buyers typically source three tiers here: basic garment fabrics (knits, wovens, shirting, chiffon, polyester-viscose blends) for fast fashion and private label; fashion and womenswear fabrics for trend-led brands needing frequent style updates; and improved basic fabrics, where suppliers adjust grammage, hand feel, stretch, or drape on a standard material to hit a specific price point.

The market's East Market building reflects this specialisation by floor: menswear and womenswear fashion fabrics and wool blends on the first floor, wovens/knits/linings on the second, knit fabrics on the third. Sample-to-bulk timelines run as fast as 5 days for full custom development, 3 days in the fastest cases, with structured lead times of 30–45 days.

Keqiao accounts for roughly 60% of Zhejiang province's printing and dyeing capacity and approximately 40% of China's national total, generating close to 200 billion RMB in local industrial output. This isn't a "browse and buy" category the way the others are — it's the depth layer every other category runs through. Because this capacity sits a few kilometres from the weaving factories, greige fabric moves straight into printing and dyeing without the long-distance logistics and inter-provincial coordination that slow down fragmented supply chains elsewhere.

For buyers, this means colour, pattern, hand feel, and functional finishing (waterproof, flame retardant, blackout, antibacterial, thermal regulation) can all be developed and adjusted in one place. Digital printing specialists such as Shaoxing Yongtong run delivery in as fast as 4 days, with in-house design teams producing 300+ new patterns daily, suited to fast fashion and cross-border e-commerce replenishment. Buyers should always request third-party test reports (colour fastness, shrinkage, formaldehyde and pH under China's GB 18401 standard) before scaling a printed or dyed fabric to bulk.

Beilian Market, opened in 2011, is recognised as China's largest and most concentrated source market for curtains, window sheers, and home textile fabrics, with more than 2,300 business units. Alongside China Textile City's broader network of 38,000 merchants, Keqiao covers curtains and window sheers, wall coverings and decorations, sofa upholstery, residential home textiles, and full project-based soft furnishing procurement. Wide-format fabrics (280–320cm) are common and cut down on seams for hotel and large-window projects. Standard spot MOQs run from around 5 rolls with standard export roll packing.

The market is also moving online: Beilian's "Curtain Dream Home" WeChat mini-programme now integrates close to 100 source manufacturers, and the wider China Textile City network is building a presence on Amazon, Shein, and TikTok for cross-border buyers who want to pre-screen before an on-site visit.

In March 2025, China Textile City opened China's first dedicated outdoor functional fabric zone in the Dongsheng Road Market. It launched with 18 suppliers and expanded to nearly 40 across two phases by April 2026. Keqiao's functional textile suppliers cover five directions: light outdoor and urban commuting fabrics, professional outdoor protective fabrics (ski, mountaineering, cycling), athleisure functional fabrics, composite and laminated fabrics, and small-batch development for emerging outdoor brands.

Suppliers here compete on frontier materials, not just price. Jiangsu Sanfeng's AirShift nano electrostatic-spun membrane, for example, tests at hydrostatic pressure above 10,000mm H2O and moisture vapour transmission above 15,000 g/m²/24h, beating conventional PTFE membranes on weight and breathability while meeting OEKO-TEX, GRS, and PFAS-free standards. MOQs run from several hundred metres, lead times 30–45 days, and buyers get equivalent waterproof-breathable performance at roughly 20–35% below international premium brand pricing.