With the change of manufacturing cost, the international shoemaking center has experienced many transfers. In 1980s, the shoe-making center moved from early developed countries such as Italy and Spain to Japan, China, Taiwan Province Province, South Korea and other Far East regions, and gradually moved to Chinese mainland with lower production cost after 1990s. Since 1996, China has become the largest producer and exporter of footwear products in the world.

In terms of industrial importance, garment factories don't need much hard work in the whole process because of the output of raw materials and finished clothes used in their production process. There is no doubt that garment factories belong to light industry. As for the industry attributes, the raw materials needed to make clothes should be pure cotton cloth, chemical fiber cloth, flax and so on. , must be spun into white blank and then bleached and dyed, so the garment factory is a light textile enterprise.