From the start,the industrial revolution was based on cotton textiles,gradually adding woollens to the list and,in the late 1960s,man-made fibres and made-up garments.

• 香港的工业最初以棉织业为主，其后逐渐发展毛织业，到六十年代后期，更扩展至人造纤维和成衣制造业。