Since being launched in 1984, SHANGHAITEX has been held on 13 occasions. After over 20 years of development, SHANGHAITEX has evolved into one of the most influential professional exhibitions in Asia. It is recognized as a professional, authoritative and forwarding-looking gala for trade exchanges by its peers.

Since the second half of 2008, China's textile exporters have been influenced by the global economic recession to different extents. However, the overall textile industry maintains its advantages and the Chinese government is also promulgating a series of favourable policies to support and promote the development of textile enterprises. All these moves have in turn brought confidence to many textile machinery manufacturers from both home and abroad who believe that China is developing from just an economic giant into an economic superpower. Meanwhile, many enterprises are taking this opportunity to expand their market shares and upgrade their products. Thanks to the full confidence in China's economy from leading textile machinery enterprises and the brand image formed in past years, SHANGHAITEX 2009 has received support and favour from many textile machinery manufacturers who regard it as the most significant platform for them to market and promote their products in 2009.

In 2009 as people are full of hope for China's economy, China's high-tech manufacturing industry has been leading the recovery. Brand exhibitions, which serve as platforms to present industrial development, are the best channel for an enterprise to showcase its growth. The organizing committee of SHANGHAITEX 2009 is working to stage a better and more efficient exhibition so that China's economic recovery will benefit both the domestic and global textile industry.