In 1949, the year of the Communist takeover of the Mainland, Taiwan's textile factories only had 20,000 or so spinning machines, and production was not sufficient to meet domestic demand.
民國卅八年，隨著政府由大陸遷台及原本在台的紡織廠，設備總計有二萬餘紡錠，產品尚不足自給。