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。