Jiaxing'S Orders For Clothes And Production Lines Can'T Start.

"Rome wasn't built in a day!" Jiaxing Rome Zhong Wang Garment Co., Ltd. wrote on its web page at the B2C online clothing store, which was soon opened.

Relying on this online platform and expanding domestic orders, the Pinghu veteran clothing company, which specializes in foreign trade exports for over 20 years, has achieved an increase of over 20% in domestic sales over the first half of this year.

The author investigates and understands that in the face of many unfavorable factors such as the rising labor cost and the changeable exchange rate, a number of garment enterprises like Rome Zhong Wang have joined the same e-business to offset the excess capacity caused by the abandonment of export orders.

According to people familiar with the matter, in Pinghu, about 8 of the clothing leading enterprises have chosen "touches" to expand domestic sales, and quite a few enterprises have been forced to pick up lists and discard bills due to recruitment difficulties.

The order is too busy to start the production line.

"I heard that a garment factory nearby has just built a new factory and has added more than ten production lines, but so far it has not been able to start because the workers have recruited less than 20%."

A local clothing company owner in Pinghu described to the author the bottlenecks in the development of the industry.

Constrained by the shrinking of labor resources and the rising cost of wages, many textile and garment enterprises have no way to "digest" despite the "full warehouse" of orders.

According to the survey of 54 key export and contact enterprises in textile and clothing industry, as of the end of June, 66.7% of the enterprises' hand export orders were flat or increasing compared with the same period last year, of which 46.3% were higher than the same period last year.

However, due to the indigestion of orders, part of the processing enterprises appeared menu, or even forced to abandon the list.

On the other hand, factors such as tight land use, increased investment in environmental governance, and gradual standardization of labor protection all indicate that the burden on export cost of enterprises will increasingly increase.

A recent questionnaire survey showed that the increase of staff remuneration in textile and garment enterprises this year generally reached 10% to 20%.

The price of raw materials has generally risen by 10% to 20% in recent years.

The above factors have made the textile and apparel industry that has been running fast and fast enter a steady jogging phase.

It is understood that clothing exports in the first half of this year amounted to $1 billion 467 million, an increase of only 7.6%, and the growth rate was lagging behind.

In Pinghu, which accounts for nearly 1/3 of clothing exports, there has even been a regression phenomenon.

Since the beginning of this year, clothing exports have been 436 million US dollars, down 4.6% from the same period last year.