China will need two billion extra pairs of shoes a year, claims CLIA
01/10/2010
In comments she made at the All China Leather Exhibition in Shanghai at the start of the move, CLIA president, Madam Zhang Shu Hua, said that, although official figures are hard to put together, her organisation estimates that Chinese consumers buy an average of 1.5 pairs of shoes each per year.
She said that this was likely to double, which means that the global footwear industry will soon have to find a way of supplying China with an extra 2 billion pairs of shoes a year.
To give the figure a bit of context, this is ten times the total number of shoes produced in Italy in 2009.
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