Shoe Companies In Chengdu: Strive For European And American Shoe Orders To Turn The Financial Crisis Into Their Own Opportunities.

Women's shoes capital international procurement Festival opened yesterday, and experts from various walks of life played a role in Chengdu footwear industry.

"Now is the best opportunity for the development of footwear industry in Chengdu. Every shoemaking enterprise should seize this opportunity to stand out."

Although the footwear industry in Chengdu is facing a series of complicated situations, experts at the third international procurement festival of the 2008 China Women's shoes group believe that this is the golden opportunity for Chengdu's footwear industry to rise and compete for the footwear industry in Europe and the United States.

Yesterday morning, the 3 day "2008 China Women's shoes capital international procurement Festival" opened in Wuhou Industrial Park.

According to the procurement organizing committee, the procurement festival attracted more than 50 international buyers from more than 10 countries including Italy, the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia and so on. The Chengdu footwear industry has 110 factories exhibiting, which is the largest number of exhibitors in all the Chinese women's shoes cities.

This procurement Festival has been successfully cooperated with INTERTEK Tianxiang group, one of the largest inspection service networks in the world. The two sides have launched the "one to one trade matching meeting" for the first time. The 10 global shoe buyers giants from Britain, the United States and other European and American countries have come to the international procurement Festival.

This is also the first time the international shoe buyers facing the global market have placed their orders in Chengdu.

It is reported that according to the intention of the two sides, more than 10 Super buyer groups have reached initial intention with dozens of factories in Chengdu, and the two sides will also conduct in-depth exchanges on specific cooperation details.

Women's shoes capital, the third international procurement Festival summit, Li Yuzhong, vice chairman of the China Leather Association, said that footwear companies such as Dongguan, Wenzhou and Quanzhou were all reflected by the rising cost of raw materials, especially the turmoil in the international financial situation. Not enough shoe-making supporting enterprises and small businesses that rent factories were closed down. If the situation continues to the end of the year, a group of medium-sized enterprises will be faced with bankruptcy.

The crisis also spread to Chengdu shoe companies.

"We closed down about 10% of small and medium-sized enterprises."

Chinese women's shoes industry operation center is the operation body of Chengdu footwear industry. Peng Jun, director of the center, analyzed that the whole industry was being tested, but compared with the coastal enterprises, the footwear industry in Chengdu was not fundamentally affected. "We have our own advantages."

Chengdu shoe industry has an unparalleled advantage in the "shuffle": abundant, cheap raw materials and labor resources, and a large number of skilled shoemaking craftsmen, in order to complete the essential manual operation links in leather shoes production.

"Economic fluctuation is a major reshuffle, a challenge and an opportunity for the footwear industry."

Li Yuzhong, vice chairman of China Leather Association, said that although the footwear industry is facing unprecedented challenges, it is unquestionable that the domestic and international shoe market is still a demand market.

China's footwear industry has strong capacity and competitiveness. It is difficult for major markets such as the US, Europe and Japan to find other import channels in a short time, and pfer huge orders to other countries. China will still occupy large markets.

According to the statistics of Global trade statistics, the current export volume of footwear countries such as Vietnam, Brazil, Indonesia and India is about 500 million pairs, 160 million pairs, 150 million pairs and 100 million pairs. Obviously, it is difficult to undertake the output of China's annual output of about 10 billion 400 million pairs in the short term.

Gu Hengli, senior manager of INTERTEK Tianxiang group, one of the largest inspection service networks in the world, is speaking frankly. On the one hand, it is a huge market. On the other hand, it is the "shuffle" of shoemaking enterprises in the coastal areas of China. This is the best time for Chengdu shoe industry to rise and seize the international market.

"In the future development of Chengdu footwear industry, we should rely on our labor resources and manual operation to pay special attention to the safety requirements of European and American footwear products and green barriers, and I believe we can win more European and American orders."