A brief review on the development of China’s dyeing and finishing industry since the reform and opening to the outside world is conducted. Under the background of economic globalization and international industrial reconstruction, how to carry out the scientific point of view of sustainable development and adapt to the post-quota period of textile sector is expounded, setting out a series of counter-measures and recommendations such as strengthening self-disciplining, changing the mode of economic growth, and developing in an orderly, coordinated and differential way. A brief review on the development of China’s dyeing and finishing industry since the reform and opening to the outside world is conducted. Under the background of economic globalization and international industrial reconstruction, how to carry out the scientific point of view of sustainable development and adapt to the post-quota period of textile sector is expounded, setting out a series of counter-measures and recommendations such as strengthening self-disciplining, changing the mode of economic growth, and developing in an orderly, coordinated and differential way.