The long-cherished wishes of our famous textile historian and educator and 96-year-old Professor Zhou Qicheng have finally come true: more than 2 million words and more than 1,000 illustrations of the “General History of China Textile” will be launched in Shanghai to fill the blank of the 7,000-year history of the development of China’s textile industry. . The day before yesterday, Jiang Zhiwei, president of Donghua University Press, took the new book and said, "Mr. Zhou led three generations of disciples to compile giant works. He sometimes worried that he wouldn't see a book in his lifetime."

Zhou Qicheng introduced the book's statistics on the Chinese characters in the Eastern Han Dynasty, "Shuo Wen Jie Zi," with 267 characters next to the "family" and 75 characters next to the "turban". There are more than 120 characters next to the "clothes." Directly or indirectly related to textiles, from the side proved that textile technology has been largely mature in the early feudal society.

Zhou Qicheng decided to take the "General History of Chinese Textiles" style outline and personally wrote the first chapter of the book. As a national key book publishing and planning project and a national publishing fund project, China Textile History has become China's first general history of the development of the textile industry that comprehensively addresses the production of original hand-made products to the production of contemporary power machines. He believes that “the ancestors opened up the Silk Road that connects the East and the West and opened a new window of friendly exchanges between all countries, writing a new chapter in the common development and progress of mankind.” In Chapters 24 and 32 of the book, the northwest was recorded separately. The rise and prosperity of silk roads and maritime silk roads. The book spans time from ancient times to 2010, covering a wide range of ancient textile technologies with worldwide innovation, including silk twitches, diagonal weaving machines, and the development of biotech fiber raw materials for the development of contemporary technologies such as antimicrobial and biodegradable medical and sanitary materials. Even the Donghua University independently developed the "semi-rigid cell substrate glass fiber mesh material" for the "Tiangong No. 1" plug in the solar windsurfing and other major achievements also income history.