1. Definition of functional textile products
     Functional textile products refer to textile products holding unique functions to assist treatment on certain diseases, protect human body from ailment and keep fit as well as basic functions involving warm-keeping, body-covering, decoration and so on.
2. Fit-keeping trend
     The inevitable trend to keep fit by functional clothes and healthy bedclothes induces the existence of functional textile product. It owes its eminence in health industry to quite a few superiorities like ‘needless to change your living habit', ‘body-care for 24 successive hours', ‘optimum self-help health product' etc. It is widely acknowledged that most medicines will more or less do some negative effect to human body. Thus, an increasing number of people begin to keep fit in resort to functional clothes and bedclothes instead of tonic.
3. Market potential
     Functional textile is applicable to healthy people and those free from medical physical therapy.
     Modern medical science indicates: Intervening between health and illness, people neither healthy nor ill are reputed as sub-healthy people, who can be divided into two groups. The first group of people are not considered as patients because no trait of disease has been found through medical check, however, they usually suffer from maladjustment involving the symptoms like dizziness, inappetence, tiredness of the whole body, dysphoria, heart-throb, insomnia and so on. As for the other group of people, though they show no symptom at all, there is latent disease in their body. According to statistics, sub-healthy group makes up 70 per cent or so of the total population. And it is revealed by State Medicine Committee that approximately 40 per cent of the patient population, which accounts for 15 per cent of the total, are under non-medical treatment. Acquiring the qualification granted by Suzhou Medicine Department, Global Health Textile Products are dedicated to improve the microcirculation of the whole human body in evidence, promote metabolism. Moreover, it can also be employed to assist physical therapy of patients.
4. Current market situation    
Far-infrared functional textile firstly appeared in Japan and started to sweep over the world in the eightieth. Its sale has totaled US$ 30 billion all through the past years with an annual increment of 25％. The market of this kind of health-care textile with unique functions was not set up in China mainland until the end of the ninetieth. It has remarkable effect on treatment of chronic disease, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease and middle and old age degenerative .