My guess is the idea is to grow the textile industry beyond just making domestic products and to start selling exports. Once you have a homegrown operation, peo

My guess is the idea is to grow the textile industry beyond just making domestic products and to start selling exports. Once you have a homegrown operation, people like Nike are willing to let you make their clothes. Basically using it as the first step towards industrialization. Why textiles? Because its the easiest thing to manufacture. Clothing is light. So textiles are often made wherever there is cheap labor. They'd rather get a factory making iPhones, but that isn't happening.