Zhejiang'S Foreign Trade Is Facing New Challenges: Full Orders, But Thin Profits.

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A piece of foreign trade goods from raw materials to foreign consumers, through the receiving clerk, production enterprises, foreign trade enterprises, freight forwarding companies, ports and other links.

When we carefully open up a gateway, we find that behind this bright and beautiful figure, there are undetected hardships and hesitation.

Interlocking, the road of recovery bumps, the road ahead is a bit confused.

For a few cents and foreign businessmen competing for red.

"Much better than imagined.

The financial crisis, like a gust of wind, has swept the foreign trade industry, and has taken many orders.

In March this year, Danish and Swedish customers released sincerity and made a list. In the next two months, some lists were also harvested.

Holding hands, Li Xiaojie has a strange taste.

"In the final analysis, it's the price."

Li Xiaojie said that cotton yarn and polyester fiber are rising almost every month, and the wages of workers are also rising. Even at last year's prices, they can't make money this year.

Moreover, the price given by the other party is lower than last year.

In order to convince the other party, in March, Li Xiaojie took advantage of a meeting in Hongkong for two trips to Hongkong, hoping to let the other loose, but it was difficult to make a wish.

"Foreign guests look friendly, drink small drinks and chat in private, but the public are public, and we often go to the red for one or two cents."

Li Xiaojie said that the other party's insistence can only be based on its own concession.

"After all, there's still hope for orders. If you don't take someone else, there will be others."

Li Xiaojie said that in addition to the domestic counterparts, the biggest threat now is Southeast Asian countries, such as Bangladesh, Indonesia and other countries. Because the labor cost is only 1/3 in China, some customers have shifted some simple styles of clothing sheets to the other side.

In the past, cotton shirts and T-shirts were made in the summer. Now customers are asking for polyester and nylon, which means less cost and the export price has decreased from 11 US dollars to 5 US dollars.

"No way, customers are racking their brains in order to save costs."

Li Xiaojie said, the most important thing now is to keep the list. The innovative gadgets can only be paid after eating enough.

Just as Li Xiaojie worries about orders, Xiangshan's Jue Xi, a famous textile town in China, many foreign textile enterprises are in another dilemma.

"There are more orders and workers are missing."

Linying, director of Ningbo Yongnan knitting company, told reporters that compared with the same period last year, orders for the first half of this year increased by 30% over the same period last year.

"There are too many lists. It's too late to do so."

Lin Ying said that with the return of many overseas orders, skilled workers have also become a hot commodity. Although there are more than 1200 workers in the factory now, they still have 30% of the labor gap.

In Yongnan knitting, the wages of ordinary textile workers have risen from 1600 yuan last year to 2560 yuan, or up to 60%.

But even so, recruitment difficulties are hard to mitigate.

The wage level and the increase of knitted knitted fabrics in southern Anhui are a microcosm of Zhejiang's manufacturing industry's wage increase this year.

According to the information of Zhejiang Economic Commission, the average monthly wage of industrial workers above Designated Size reached 2115.8 yuan in 1~5 months this year, an increase of 16.7% over the same period last year.

Intensive wage increases, textile, electronics and other labor-intensive industries have encountered enormous cost pressures.

In addition to the decline in labor costs, the frequent fluctuation of exchange rate is also shifting the fragile nerve in the competitive industry of textile exports.

"Now the list, the profit is getting thinner and thinner, everybody quoted price is lower than one, last year has 10% profit, now also about 3%~4%, basically runs the quantity primarily."

After 15 years of foreign trade, Lin Ying said that the profit was almost the lowest in 15 years.

The cost of living can only be digested internally.

In the face of the new problems arising from the rise of orders, Lin Ying's idea is to focus more on the input and design functions of independent research and development.

After completion of production, how to pport goods safely and smoothly to overseas markets is an important step to connect freight forwarders with suppliers and suppliers.

The market is cold and warm, and the freight forwarder is the prophet.

Yesterday at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Wang Wei was still in Beilun port of Ningbo, between the shipping company and the logistics Towing Co. "Next week, the sea freight will go up sharply, and the old customers will rush to deliver the goods. Now, no matter how many, they will get out as much as possible."

Wang Wei has been running a freight forwarding company in Ningbo for over 10 years. At the beginning of this year, Wang Wei, who had been idle for more than a year, suddenly became busy and often had to work overtime because the volume of cargo handled by the company rose sharply, especially in April March. The average monthly volume of business in the first half of the year was 5000 times that of the same period last year.

Despite the booming business, the company's profits did not grow correspondingly, because the changing ocean freight charges made him a little unprepared.

"The freight charges have gone up too fast, almost once a week, and the companies are too late to respond, so where is there any profit?"

Wang Wei said.

In June, Wang Wei received a notice of freight price rise from COSCO Shipping, Ma Shiji and other shipping companies.

"Shipping companies with low initial freight rates have already raised their freight rates earlier this month. After July 15th, the peak season surcharge has been added, with a quota of 200 /TEU (equivalent to two ordinary containers)."

"Shipping fees have gone up so much that the goods we export must also go up."

Wang Wei said that only because the pace of freight adjustment is too fast, the price they quote from customers to ship is too long. The adjustment price in the middle needs to be constantly negotiated with customers. It is very difficult for small and medium-sized export enterprises to do so.

At present, including the textile, clothing, footwear, toys and other labor-intensive industries, the average profit level of export enterprises is only 3% to 5%. The sharp rise in seaborne prices will directly affect the overall profits of the export enterprises of these industries.

Although China's foreign trade situation looks like a big heat, the Baltic index has been declining for a long time, which means that international trade is actually not active.

The scars of the financial crisis have just healed. The exhilarating data is fresh, like a shot in the arm, activating the numbness of nerves.

Living is more important than anything.

With joy, reporters feel the "worry" at the moment. Will the days of the second half be prosperous like this?

Will there be any change in your life?

Indeed, in the long chain of Zhejiang's foreign trade industry, everyone is very tired.

Although Zhejiang's Chinese enterprises provide a large number of products to the whole world, most of the "made in China" are at the low end of the industrial chain.

Once the hat of the "world factory" is buttoned up, it is very difficult to pick it off.

Like the kite in the wind, even if it flies high, the other end is still dragged by people. How can you run and expand the market? The outcome is always the same, earning a little bit of processing fees, depending on the strong face of the customers, and the surrounding countries are also fighting for jobs.

I'm afraid this is getting worse and worse.

The latest wave of pay rises is being put to the test by relying on low cost global manufacturing in China for many years.

With the change of China's population structure, after several times of labor shortage in coastal areas, China's economy has been getting closer and closer to the "turning point of Lewis" (the turning point of surplus labor force to shortage), and the rising labor cost has become an inevitable trend.

The acceleration of RMB appreciation and the turbulent external market are another big test of "made in China".

If you want to change the mindset of others, you have to change yourself first.

How to change the original development mode and path dependence is not only an enterprise, but also a problem that Chinese manufacturing industry and the whole Chinese economy must face.