In May, driven by various factors such as strong demand of the textile, agricultural products prices rising, international prices promoting and the new season producing expectation, cotton prices rising accelerated again, Zhengzhou cotton futures and CNCE prices hit a record high repeatly, spot price also approach a record high. By the end of May, the China Cotton Index (CC Index328) reached 17,471 yuan / ton, up by 4,460 yuan from the end of the last year, or 25.5%. To meet the needs of textile enterprises, relevant departments released additional sliding tax quota of 800,000 tons, coordinating actively Xinjiang cotton transport in May. In the last ten days of May, the National Development and Reform Commission held joint meetings of cotton macro-control to study the macro-control measures, it will issue mort additional import quotas and take other regulatory measures to stabilize market based on conditions and textile demand situation. China Cotton Association published twice industry alerts in a month to warn industry interprises to prevent risks. At the end of month, cotton prices increasing step fell back slightly.