This paper takes 31 leading textile and apparel trade countries or regions in the world as the research object. It constructs the adjacency matrix for the trade relations. Using social network analysis method, it measures the network structure of the global textile and apparel trade respectively from the perspectives of trade network diagram, network density, centrality. According to this result, it explores Chinas position on the global textile and apparel trade and interprets it.
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