From the 1880s to the 1930s, the textile industry in Japan employed over half of all workers, most of them in the three major branches of silk reeling, cottonspinning, and weaving.
Boulton and Watt worked together to pioneer the use of the steam engine in the cottonspinning industry;
博尔顿和瓦特共同努力以倡导蒸汽机在棉纺工业的使用;
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Chinese cottonspinning industry is the best traditional industry of the foundation in the textile industry, occupy the important position in national economy.