"Famous Town Of Woolen Sweater" - Dongguan Dalang Is Facing A Dilemma Due To Lack Of Funds.

　　“中國羊毛衫名鎮”廣東東莞大朗鎮大量中小毛紡廠在多重壓力下關門倒閉

After several generations of efforts, the Dongguan Dalang Town, the myth of "China's woolen sweater", has been woven. Almost every household is related to the wool weaving industry.

However, in such a labor-intensive industry such as wool weaving, the survival of most small and medium-sized Woollen Mills is becoming increasingly difficult as labor costs rise, prices of all kinds of raw materials rise, profit margins are reduced and orders are reduced.

The daily economic news reporter recently found in Dalang that most of the local wool weaving businesses are self-employed small and medium-sized enterprises, which rely mainly on the sub orders of big factories to maintain their livelihood. Therefore, the relationship between cooperation and competition coexist.

Once big factories are unable to protect themselves, their collapse is inevitable.

Case: every day is a loss.

"During those days, I was losing money every day, and I couldn't sustain it."

The closure of the sewing plant is a relief for Luo Fang, and she no longer lives in anxiety and irritability every day for money problems.

"The funds are basically unable to turn around. Now the wages of the workers are rising, but the orders received from the factory are very low, and they are losing every day.

Payment has been unable to return. Some have only paid 4 months to pay for the goods, and the fastest is two months.

Moreover, there are not many orders in big factories this year, and many times they solve them by themselves. Some big factories even do not have their own orders to do so.

Luo Fang said.

Luo Fang's sewing plant is one of the most difficult downstream factories in Dalang town. The financial difficulty she faces is a common problem faced by all these enterprises.

In fact, Luo Fang began to do wool weaving this year.

The price of the woolen fabric has made Luo Fang extremely surprised. Although she has many years of wool weaving experience, the sewing plant has only been opened for two months and can not sustain it.

"My cousin's more than 100 men's factory was also started this year, and not long ago.

The machines I bought were 15 thousand yuan each, which took two months and sold for 5000 yuan. "

Key words: wages

The 3 rise in wages is still not easy to recruit.

When reporters came to the more concentrated Dalang lanes of the woollen mill, they saw that there were recruitment notices in front of almost every factory, and the word "Recruitment" was striking in two words.

Some factories even pull large banners on the outside walls, which reads, "our factory has sufficient long-term orders, well paid, punctual wages and housing conditions."

The ubiquitous recruitment information may make people think that the order of wool weaving industry is endless. A thriving scene is hard to relate to the fact that small and medium-sized enterprises are closing down a lot.

After in-depth investigation, the reporter found that this is just a representation, and the survival situation of the small and medium enterprises in the wool weaving industry is already very grim, especially in individual small factories.

"It's not easy to recruit people here. Some factories have moved out of town.

Last year there was a strike, and some factories even went out.

At first, it was because of low wages, but later because of bad food and accommodation.

Now, only those big factories with better benefits and benefits can recruit people. Small factories are hard to recruit.

Xu master, who spent many years doing looms in Dalang, told reporters, "now the wages in the factory have really risen. I had a maximum of 2000 yuan a month last year, and now I can get 3000 yuan.

We work 9 hours a day, 3 days a week, two hours a day, two days a month.

"However, the wool industry is very dusty and bad for health.

Some of my fellow villagers who used to do looms with me have gone back to their hometown to start a small business and have never worked.

Xu Master said slightly worried.

Mr. Chen, who works as a merchandiser in a 20 year old Hong Kong funded factory, told reporters: "the year before last is not very good at hiring people. This year, after returning to the office for a month, he has never been able to recruit people. Looms are people who do not understand at all, and will learn for a while.

After the promulgation of the new labor contract law this year, the wages of front-line workers have risen by 30%, but it is still not easy to recruit people.

　　關鍵詞：利潤

In order to lose money, we must take orders.

Mr. Chen told reporters, "a sweater is calculated on the basis of wool. This year it has increased by 20%~30% on average compared with 2006, which is about 10%~15% higher than that in 2007."

The reporter learned from Miss Zhang who is responsible for the shipment of wool. Most of the woolen goods have risen to varying degrees this year. For the use of more common mercerized cotton, last year it was about 34~35 yuan / kg, and this year is already 40 yuan / kg, up about 15%.

Reporters learned from the ingredients master that most of the ingredients are rising at the moment, especially for bags and cartons.

It is understood that the cost of raw materials and labor has risen and factory profits have been compressed unprecedentedly.

"The total cost of an export sweater is up to 40%."

An insider told reporters.

Miss Fang, who has been engaged in the wool industry for many years, told reporters: "customers will generally quote several factories at the same time, and finally let the factories with low price to do so, so many times, they will not be able to see that the factory is still in operation, but they are already losing money."

"Some factories, in order to retain workers, do sometimes receive money at a loss, and sometimes pick up a list of things that should not be answered."

Dalang town private economic development coordination office official told reporters.

It is understood that the wool textile industry practitioners mobility is relatively large, most of their wages are piecework, if the factory does not have an order or arrears of wages, it can not retain workers.

Therefore, many factories try their best to retain workers. Even within the range they can afford, even if they fail to take orders, they will not let workers disperse.

Keywords: order

Orders are too few to start less than half.

Mr. Chen's factories are exporting orders from Europe and the United States.

According to Mr. Chen, the average volume of orders in the US is relatively large, but the profit margin is small. European orders are small, but the profit is larger than that in the US.

This year, the US economy began to decline sharply due to multiple factors such as the US economic recession and RMB appreciation.

"In the past year, the United States alone didn't make a big sale this year. The number of products sold to the United States decreased by 70% this year.

Last year, about 3 million pieces of exports were exported, and now they are at the end of the peak season. It is estimated that there will be only about 1000000 pieces this year.

The reporter came to the loom Department of Mr. Chen's factory. In the workshop of more than 20 looms, only ten workers were busy, and the operating rate was about 50%.

Subsequently, the reporter visited the small factory in the vicinity of the lane, some of the operating rate of less than 1/3.

At a waste acquisition station in Li Bei Ling, the reporter saw more than 10 looms are being sold.

"Now many factories are unable to receive orders, every day there are small factories closed down, our factory has removed some departments, and some machines that are not used are sold."

A factory employee said so.

Trabeculae, who works in the Dragon Textile Factory, told reporters: "our factory has domestic sales department and export sales department, and export orders are still being done; domestic orders are not many this year, and there is no one there.

If the order is received, the factory will have to distribute it to other small factories or manual factories.

The quality requirements of domestic orders are not high, mainly depending on quantity.

In addition, in Dalang, many small factories have "raised" a number of downstream businesses. Most of these downstream businesses are small factories or manual workshops. Most of them have completed one or a few processes (including looms, sewing, finishing, printing, nail peg, flat cars and hand hooks) of woollen knitted goods, which are directly influenced by the upstream enterprises (issuing factories).

If the upstream enterprises fail to order, they will directly affect them.

　　關鍵詞：資金

Turnover is mostly a small factory.

Small factories are numerous in Dalang, and these factories are the most popular ones.

The local housing agency Mr. Nie told reporters: "Dalang is a lot of woollen mill on the side, but the most small factory is one hundred or two hundred square meters. We are very clear about the source of housing."

Miss Jiang's knitting factory is a Hong Kong funded enterprise with a history of more than 20 years, with dozens of downstream factories.

"Two weeks ago, I wanted to give a bill to a downstream factory which had worked for a long time.

Many factories fail at the end of the month, because most of them are settled at the end of the month.

Although the wool industry has been retrograde since 2004, the wool textile industry was very prosperous last year, so this year there were many new factories.

In the peak season, Dachang will divide the orders in hand into small factories or allow small factories to complete certain processes.

But in many cases, small factories can also get some foreign trade orders from foreign trade banks, but generally they can not do high-end goods.

"Now the cost of raw materials and labor costs are rising. If small factories do ordinary goods, the quoted price will be raised to $14 from the original 12 US dollars, and the customers will not be able to accept it.

But on top of the scale, the top brands, even from $30 to $40, can be accepted as long as the raw material is reasonable.

Therefore, the reduction of orders is one of the reasons why small businesses can not keep up.

Mr. Chen said.

A person familiar with the matter told reporters that the closure of downstream businesses is also closely related to the shortage of funds in the upstream enterprises.

"Upstream enterprises because of capital turnover, the situation of arrears of payments is significantly increased than in previous years, so that the original capital strength is relatively weak downstream enterprises are under pressure, money can not be tied up, workers wages can not be delivered."

Miss Li's factory has more than 900 employees. She said that the funds in the factory were tight this year, and she could feel it as a staff member.

"In the past, our factory seldom urged customers to pay the money, and the customer dragged it for another three or four months.

And this year, factories frequently push money.

Even so, the situation of arrears of payments this year is worse than before.

We are in arrears with small factories for half a month, and small factories will have to pay workers 20 days' wages or even longer.

Key words: Technology

Backward technology is inevitable.

"Many people think that the threshold of wool weaving is very low, so people always want to come in. Although the wool weaving industry is a labor-intensive industry, its technical content is relatively high. Only a competitive enterprise can survive."

Miss Jiang said.

It is understood that in order to cope with the increasing cost, a small number of factories are increasing the number of computer looms.

A master in charge of computer looms gave the reporter an account: "our workshop now has 25 computer looms. Only 5 master workers are required to earn wages every month. According to the master's 2000 yuan and class 1300 yuan, the monthly salary of the whole workshop is only 8500 yuan.

In the past, because all hand looms were calculated at a wage of 1300 yuan per person, the boss paid 32500 yuan per month.

In this way, the boss now saves more than 20 thousand yuan a month.

Moreover, computer looms are much faster than Handlooms.

"The price of a computer loom is about 4.5 million yuan. In the past 3 years, a computer loom can create a value of 4.5 million yuan, plus the need for industrial development, and the use of computer looms will become more and more popular," the official of the Dalang municipal private office told reporters.

However, at present, many small factories in Dalang seldom use computer looms and basically use manual looms. They are more likely to be eliminated in the process of industrial upgrading.

Key words: support

Town government: we have been supporting.

Dalang town government officials believe that the export tax rebate rate continued to decline, reducing the profit margins of the wool industry.

It has brought great pressure to export enterprises, especially small and medium-sized enterprises with low profit margins.

In addition, the new labor contract law also makes it difficult for small and medium-sized enterprises to adapt immediately.

In view of the present