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China is the world's top textile exporter due to smog that has blanketed the north of the country in the past few days, cotton mills have stopped buying raw cotton and have suspended output in Hebei and parts of Shandong, the two Chinese provinces both major growing regions for the fibre, as part of measures to curb smog, according to a report by Cncotton.com, a government-backed trade website.
