Fur Leather Industry In Shenzhen Is Light.

As early as 30 years ago, the newly opened Shenzhen was once an important processing base for Hongkong fur traders to take root in the mainland and connect with the world.

According to incomplete statistics, in the heyday, there are nearly 1000 fur processing plants in Shenzhen, and fur products exported from Shenzhen occupy half of the total export of China, thus becoming a truly "world fur processing plant".

However, with the acceleration of the development of Shenzhen, the industries represented by high technology, trade, real estate and finance gradually replace the traditional processing industry oriented economies, making Shenzhen's traditional processing enterprises shrink rapidly, and leather processing industry is the first to bear the brunt. Shenzhen fur industry, which is mainly based on processing, is inevitable.

How did this effect come about?

Leather industry is the focus of pollution control in Shenzhen's environmental protection department.

In fact, leather industry is really polluted only by leather processing, and leather processing is almost without pollution. However, the Shenzhen municipal government has not broken down, but has adopted a "one size fits all" approach to take the whole industry into a cold palace.

Pollution is also the reason why Shenzhen has avoided the tannery industry.

We have to face the fact that if tanning pollution is not well handled, it will do great harm.

3 years ago, I personally visited several Pingshan industrial zones in Pingshan, Longgang, where the tanneries of Shenzhen were concentrated.

Just as the author passed a kilometre of Longgang River away from the industrial area, the thick black and stinking river was startling. At that time, the tannery enterprises in the industrial area had stopped or moved most of them.

The shutdown and relocation of these factories are the result of the environmental protection department and customs control in Shenzhen.

"They look at it from time to time. Sometimes they come in the middle of the night. They are caught either by fines or by shutting down, and there is no way to start the water field."

Tanning enterprises describe the spirit of "dedication" of environmental protection departments.

So in less than 2 years, the tannery enterprises in the industrial area almost disappeared.

In 2011, the "World University Games" will be held in Longgang. The pollution control of the Longgang River, which represents the image of Shenzhen, is the top priority of the preparatory work. This will be a brilliant page for Shenzhen and a bleak day for tanning enterprises in Shenzhen.

Two, Shenzhen fur processing enterprises to survive difficulties, fur enterprises to fly north

With the positioning of Shenzhen as a high-tech and financial trade oriented industry development direction, the traditional processing industry will gradually be replaced, and more than 90% of Shenzhen's fur enterprises rely on processing to survive.

The change of policies will directly affect the development of enterprises, especially the development of small and medium-sized private enterprises, which needs more support from the government and relevant departments, such as funds, taxes and trading platforms.

Many owners of small and medium-sized fur enterprises reflect to the author that once the international economic environment is in trouble, the small and medium-sized enterprises that rely on processing and manufacturing will be hit hard. Most enterprises will not have any business, and some of them will lose their capital. They will need the support of capital to tide over difficulties, and more enterprises will choose "shock therapy".

The so-called "shock therapy" is temporarily closed when there is no business, giving workers leave or dismissing workers.

The result is no risk, but it can easily lead to a labor lawsuit, and it will also affect the long-term development of enterprises. When it comes to business, it will be more difficult to recruit workers in a hurry.

Compared with Shenzhen, enterprises in some places have government support, such as Haining and Tongxiang in Zhejiang, Xinji in Hebei, and Tong Erbao in Liaoning. Fur leather enterprises are basically the pillar industries in these areas. The government has therefore given support from many aspects, whether from capital loans or from building platforms, they are conducive to the development of small and medium-sized enterprises.

This contrast has led directly to many fur enterprises in Shenzhen to spread their wings and fly into a warmer embrace. This trend will bring certain losses to the fur industry in Shenzhen, but in the long run, this will undoubtedly be beneficial to the development of enterprises.

Three, Shenzhen customs crackdown makes fur processing enterprises add insult to injury.

It is reported that the Shenzhen customs and the Customs General Administration of China have severely rectified and investigated the import and export enterprises in Shenzhen. Because some fur enterprises in Shenzhen are involved in smuggling and illegal trading, the bosses of the enterprises are implicated, and the industry is in danger.

Originally, the leather was pported from abroad to Shenzhen for processing, and then the semi-finished products were shipped abroad again. This is the process of OEM processing. The customs is basically tax-free. However, if these processed leather materials are sold to domestic brand enterprises again, making clothes sold in the domestic market is smuggling, which is prevalent in Shenzhen and even in China.

There is a strange phenomenon. According to statistics, the leather materials sold in Scandinavia and North America are basically bought by Hongkong and mainland Chinese, but the fur imported to the mainland by customs is less than 1/3 of the auctioned leather.

If the customs severely crackdown, it will directly affect the fur and leather processing industry in Shenzhen and even the whole country. In the case of low external demand and sluggish domestic demand, this will add to the burden on the processing enterprises.

Four, Shenzhen fur brand enterprise less famous brand

The fur industry in Shenzhen is dominated by processing, which stems from the processing of Hongkong enterprises in Shenzhen. Many wage earners and their disciples later inherited their "genes" from their own doors, but it is difficult to make them "genetic mutations".

Therefore, although many Shenzhen fur processing enterprises know the importance of brand, they also understand that the profit of processing is not as good as 1/10 or even one percent of the profits of some brands.

At present, Shenzhen fur has only brand but no brand name. Finally, it falls to the northern enterprises which are coming from behind.

There is a fatal reason, that is, the enterprises that are accustomed to processing will first consider the survival and development of the factory.

For example, Shenzhen enterprises will first consider how capital should be spent on processing equipment and raw material expenses, rather than on the "false" matters of brand training and publicity, and their brands are also trying to digest the rest of the material while others are processing. But it can be imagined that the leftover of these materials is certainly not good sales or unsuitable for the market, and the result of this cart before the horse can be imagined.

In Shenzhen, it is not without fur brands, such as "Ma Tian" is not only a famous brand of fur fur clothing, but also a leader of Shenzhen fashion fashion, and a representative of Shenzhen brand.

What is more convincing is that he did not rely on the processed enterprises, but from the very beginning it developed on its own fur leather clothing brand. Finally, it gradually developed into the fashion industry and occupied a place in the fashion industry of Shenzhen.

What is even more valuable is that he introduced the fashion elements into fur clothing, which made the leather fur and clothing of Ma Tian 's close to fashion and led the fashion revolution of fur clothing.

With the rapid development of Shenzhen's economy, the development support point of Shenzhen has fallen to the industries represented by high technology, trade, real estate and finance. Fur leather enterprises, which are mainly processed, will gradually be expelled. In Shenzhen, the fur fur enterprises with their own brands will continue to exist and grow.

The 2011 World University Games will be the watershed of the fur and leather industry in Shenzhen.