Editor's note：Thanks to the significant features such as flexible processing technologies, diversified structures, wide adaptability to raw materials and high-efficient equipment, knitting technologies provide advantageous conditions for the production of various technical textiles, thus knitted products cover increasing proportion in technical textiles. The continuous development and innovation of materials and equipment provide further opportunity for the application of knitting technologies in technical textiles.

Recently, China has made great progress in the application and development of knitted products and corresponding equipment and caught up the international advanced level in certain fields, but the overall technological level still lags behind that in developed countries. By the end of 2015, the proportion of technical textiles in textile industry is expected to reach 25%, but to catch up the 30-percent level in developed countries, China still has great potential for developing technical textiles.