China is the largest producer and consumer of this product, and the most tempting market to fold into a global average. We did not fold it. The eleven China records sit in their own comparison panel: seven retail listings and four entries from PurCotton's own catalogue.
Hanging packs and bigger counts
Two retail listings sell a hanging pack: a film pack designed to hang on a wall or a hook with towels pulled from the bottom. One of them holds 180 sheets at 19.89 CNY. A third listing, by One's Member, is also a hanging pack, in lyocell, also 180 sheets. That format did not appear in any of the six international panels, and it changes the pack mechanics completely: no standing box, no shelf footprint, a different opening, and a piece count that assumes home use rather than travel.
Sheet counts run higher across the board. Of the seven retail listings, four are 80 or more sheets, and two reach 180. Pack price and pack size move together in a way that makes a per-sheet comparison look cheap until you check the sheet size, which is where most of these pages go quiet.
Two GSM numbers, both 80
Both JD.com listings from Jingzao state 80 g/m² in the product name. That is a higher figure than any of the four international records, which sit at 65, 65, 70 and 80. With two observations on one side and four on the other, the honest statement is that 80 appears in both panels and nothing more.
PurCotton's catalogue entries are the opposite case. Four formats, all described as pure cotton, in a box, a bag, and a travel pack of 20, at 80 sheets each. None of them states a GSM figure in the accessible text. The country that prints weight most often on its retail pages has a flagship cotton brand that does not print it on its own catalogue.
What this does not say
China is not pooled into any international denominator, and the seven retail records are not a sample of the Chinese market. We did not verify prices against live stock, and the catalogue entries carry no price at all. The format differences are descriptions of eleven pages, not evidence about what Chinese consumers prefer.