Sichuan Garment Industry Clarifies The Breakup Of Industrial Cluster Restriction

Economists generally believe that

Cluster growth is subject to multiple constraints.

After 20 years of accumulation and development, the garment industry in Sichuan has begun to take shape.

There are about 8000 clothing enterprises in large and small sizes scattered all over Sichuan.

In recent years, sales of clothing in Sichuan continue to grow at an annual rate of 30%.

There are about 200 thousand employees in the whole industry and nearly 1 million employees in related industries.

These enterprises have hundreds of large employees, hundreds of millions of output value, and few workers survive.

Some of them produce Western-style clothes, others produce children's clothing, some produce casual wear, others produce uniforms, and all kinds of products are available.

However, the clothing industry is a labor-intensive industry, and the labor-intensive industry is a typical livelihood industry.

Although it has played a huge role in attracting social employment, booming the economy and promoting the construction of urbanization, but with the increasing cost of labor, raw materials, energy and other factors, the appreciation of RMB, the adjustment and pformation of labor intensive industries, and the increasingly urgent demand for optimization and upgrading, the clothing industry in Sichuan is more or less constrained by the rapid development of industrial clusters.

The government has not attached enough importance to the whole garment industry and unified planning. Many local governments have not listed the clothing industry as the pillar industry or main industry of the whole country, and lack of guidance and support. In the absence of the garment industrial park, the clothing enterprises have been in a "small, scattered and mixed" state for a long time, unable to achieve the scale effect and the industrial cluster effect; lack of ideological preparation for undertaking industrial pfer, and can hardly make great contributions in the industrial pfer; lack of brand awareness, few brands in the country; the clothing production industry chain is not complete for a long time; with the development of the economy, the demand for workers in all walks of life is increasing. According to the information provided by Sichuan clothing (apparel) industry association to this newspaper,

All these have become a stumbling block to the development of Sichuan's garment industry to cluster. If we want to break through smoothly, we need to sort out all these stumbling blocks.

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"Huai" breakthrough win in seven strokes

Yang Shuqiong, vice president and Secretary General of Sichuan apparel (apparel) Industry Association, said that if we want to get the attention of others, we must make achievements ourselves.

Only when we do our job well can we get the attention of the government and get help and support from the government.

Longqiao Town, Xindu District, Chengdu, is the main base for children's clothing production in Sichuan province. About 60% of children's garments in Sichuan are produced here.

The children's clothing produced here not only supplies the domestic market, but also exports large quantities of foreign exchange.

In recent years, the government has always nurtured children's clothing industry as a pillar industry, and persisted in the goal of building children's wear creative centers, making children's clothing industry stronger and building a modern world garden city. It aims to promote the cluster development of children's clothing industry. Through planning guidance and policy support, it attracts more than 100 children's clothing production enterprises, and will build an area of nearly 3500 mu of children's clothing industry development zone, so that the children's clothing industry of dragon bridge will be further upgraded.

At present, long Qiao town is declaring the title of "China's children's wear town".

Therefore, it is a primary task to do well in our work and actively strive for the government's leadership and support for the clothing industry.

And promoting the construction of the clothing industrial park is also an important factor to realize the development of industrial clusters.

The construction of "dragon bridge children's wear town", "Pengzhou Garment Industrial Park", "Wan Guan Industrial Park" and Luzhou, Mianyang, Suining, Nanchong and other garment industrial parks will promote the construction of industrial parks and realize the cluster development of garment industry.

To this end, Sichuan clothing (apparel) Industry Association recommended that Sichuan city and county governments put the planned industrial park on the agenda, and develop their own garment industrial park as soon as possible.

At the same time, in the development of industrial clusters, we must train and support a number of leading enterprises, so that they can promote innovation and development of the entire garment industry with the advantages of "big belt" and "strong support".

First, we should encourage leading enterprises to expand their production scale, create famous brands, and become bigger and stronger, so as to form an exemplary effect.

Second, for some government procurement orders, establish a list of advantageous enterprises, such as tooling, relief clothing, school uniform, uniform, etc., invite local leading enterprises to participate in bidding and tilt them.

Third, in the training of migrant workers and the employment of university students, it is suggested that the government directly set up training shops or training departments directly in leading enterprises, and directly accomplish the government's training plan by leading enterprises, so that we can make full use of the powerhouse and equipment of leading enterprises, give full play to the advantages of technology and orders, create employment opportunities for migrant workers and college students, and reserve more human resources for leading enterprises.

Fourth, we should increase financial support to support loans for leading enterprises.

In this way, we can aim at the "small, scattered and miscellaneous" state of Sichuan's clothing industry, control the "scattered" through clusters, support the leading enterprises to govern "small", and govern "miscellaneous" through industry norms.

"Moving east to west" is an objective fact.

Even clothing orders in Europe, America and Japan have shifted from coastal areas to western regions, especially to Sichuan.

Sichuan clothing (apparel) Industry Association recommends that enterprises should make "four changes" in industrial pfer, keep pace with the times and innovate.

First, we must change from relying mainly on the comparative advantage of labor force to relying mainly on innovation driven, vigorously promoting independent research and development, introducing digestion, accelerating technological pformation, eliminating backward equipment, improving labor productivity, and improving the contribution rate of science and technology and brand to the economic growth of clothing.

Second, we should change from resource consumption to resource saving, and develop circular economy and low carbon economy.

Third, we should change from ignoring the environment to environment-friendly, developing cleaner production and strengthening environmental governance.

Fourth, we should pform from extensive production mode to intensive production mode, promote structural adjustment of enterprise structure, regional institutions and industrial clusters, and further expand all-round international cooperation in resources, technology, production, design, research and development, brand and education.

Although Sichuan garments already have famous brands such as Ray Tibor, giant tree, De Fu, Haina nville, Jiao Jiao rabbit, etc., there are too few.

Therefore, fully recognizing the importance of brand and implementing brand strategy will make Sichuan's clothing brand sprout up like mushrooms.

The development of garment industry is also closely related to the industry in the upper and middle reaches.

The downstream garment industry has developed, which can boost the development of the surface accessories industry; the development of upstream accessories industry can promote the development of downstream garment industry.

This formed a virtuous circle, which not only enlarged the industrial chain, but also achieved the purpose of cluster development.

For recruitment difficulties, some clothing companies need to change their minds in a timely manner. As long as they are competent for the production of clothing, men and women, regardless of whether or not children are dragged down, will be able to recruit as long as they can stick to the 8 hour working system.

At the same time, enterprises can easily solve the problem of recruitment difficulties if they adjust their commuting hours, cancel overtime work, appropriately raise treatment, and recruit migrant workers on the spot.