1 Yuan Clothes On Guangdong Street

Manufacturing industry "winter" unexpectedly arrives 1 yuan clothing reappearance up and down nine

The survival state of small and medium enterprises

One of the in-depth investigations

The US economy shows signs of stagflation. In the first quarter, economic growth dropped sharply to 1.8%, the United States in April. CPI But it rose 3.2% over the same period, higher than market expectations. Meanwhile, retail and food service sales growth was lower than market expectations. China, despite the strong foreign trade and economic growth figures, has found that the winter of small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises has arrived unexpectedly, with a large number of clothing and footwear factories in the semi stop state, and a few enterprises have begun to fail.

Sales situation

1 yuan clothing store reproduction nine up and down

Recently, after in-depth investigation by reporters in Guangzhou, it was discovered that Raw material And labor costs rose sharply, the price increase led to clothing, shoes and other low-end manufacturing industry orders suddenly shrunk, business operations in trouble, large factories in a halt state, some small and medium enterprises have closed down, a small number of enterprises began to close down.

Many shops in the nine pedestrian streets in Guangzhou are specially designed to deal with factories at low cost or to clean up inventory and directly connect factories and consumer markets. For Chinese clothing [14.76 -4.65% shares and footwear processing and manufacturing industry, the quotations of these shops are undoubtedly a thermometer. After the outbreak of the financial crisis, many factories closed down and lost money, and nine of them appeared 1 yuan clothing stores. Yesterday, reporters visited nine road and people's Middle Road, and found that 1 yuan clothing once again emerged.

On the top nine roads, one family. shop The "last day sale" was made, and the price of clothes was 3~9 yuan / piece at the entrance. The clerk said that he had heard that more factories had been closed down recently, and that there were more cheap clothes.

The reporter also found a 1 yuan clothing shop, I saw the door hung with several towels pure cotton sweater, a piece of "super value sale 1 yuan / piece selected" brand is particularly eye-catching. Most of these garments are made of pure cotton products with good quality. The owner of the clothing store told reporters that the factory's tail cargo seemed to be very numerous recently, so that the selling space could not be sold.

Huang Xueming, vice president of Guangzhou garment industry association, told reporters that clothes sold in less than ten yuan were sold below the cost price. Compared with 2008, many export products did not go out to domestic sales in those years, and now the sale is due to overstocked factories and clearing up factories.

Production situation

Export orders for garment factories halved

Guangzhou Zengcheng Xintang town is a world-famous cowboy production base, known as the "world cowboy three points have one" reputation. In May 19th, our reporter went to Xintang for an in-depth investigation and found that the garment processing industry has entered the "winter" ahead of schedule.

Li Yongqiang is the director of a bed shop in a garment factory in Xintang. He has five hundred or six hundred workers in the factory, specializing in OEM brand jeans and children's jeans, 1/3 of which are domestic orders, three of which are imported from Europe. After that, the factory shipped 220 thousand to 250 thousand pieces per month, but orders have been greatly reduced since March, and now there are less than 100 thousand shipments per month. Li Yongqiang said that in recent years, many small garment factories have been closed down in Xintang, even though there are not many products in big factories.

Di Tai textile is a medium-sized garment factory. The owner of Zhanjia and his wife is a native of Xintang. At 3 p.m., it should have been a busy time. However, the reporter saw that only a few people in the workshop of hundreds of square meters in the factory were wearing clothes, and most of the machines were idle. According to the director, there are seven units in the plant, and now only 3 units have been set up. At present, almost all the orders have been completed, and the new orders can not keep up. Many workers have taken a rest.

"This year, the situation is even more severe than before the financial crisis," said Zhanjia and his wife. According to its introduction, the off-season starts in the middle of 5 months, and this year the off-season has been advanced for more than a month. Orders have been greatly reduced since the end of March.

The seven brothers clothing factory in Dun Road, Xintang, all sold in the domestic market. However, at noon, reporters could not see a few people in the production workshop, and only one floor was stacked with ready-made clothes. Yan Dunquan, one of the partners, said that the workers had gone to lunch at noon, but the reporter could judge from the empty car clothing that the starting rate of the unit should be very low. Yan Dunquan said, compared with the same period last year, the factory's orders fell by at least 2~3.

Yan Dunquan pointed to the clothing factory on the street. He said that even during the day, lights would be turned on when he started work. The reporter observed that most factories did not turn on the lights.

Shoe enterprises orders shrink by 30%

It's not just the clothing industry, but also the shoe industry.

Guo Zhenhua is the owner of the three township Zhongshan Bao Fu rubber and plastic products factory, which provides shoe materials for large shoe factories. It indicated that the entire footwear industry is now entering the cold winter. Over the past year, the total production cost of footwear industry has increased by 30% to 40%, making the price of domestic shoe factories now high, and many foreign merchants have shifted their orders to Vietnam and other countries. {page_break}

Guo Zhenhua said that the Guangdong side mainly produces high-end shoes. Since October last year, orders have shrunk by about 30%. Jinjiang, Fujian, mainly produces low-end shoes, which are more impacted. He recently went to Jinjiang for an inspection, and found that the situation was even worse than before the financial crisis. There were no orders, workers were scattered, and many factories closed.

However, some enterprises do not worry about orders, but they dare not take orders simply because they can not recruit workers.

"At present, the factory operates only a little more than 1/3 of the previous production line." Yesterday, the Secretary of the board of directors of Guangdong Haifeng Shoes Co., Ltd., located in Zengcheng stone beach, told reporters Chen Wusi. The reason for this is not the absence of orders, but the failure to recruit workers. Chen Wusi said that in the past 2003~2004 years, the number of workers in the factory has reached 18000, but now there are only 5000 factories in Guangzhou. The scale of production in Zengcheng has also been shrinking. After the financial crisis, the production line has shrunk by half, and the production line currently operating is only a little more than 1/3.

In order to deal with this problem, Haifeng shoe industry has set up two factories in Hunan and Meizhou. However, the total number of workers in the three factories is still more than 2000 less than that at the peak. Chen Wusi told reporters: "we do not worry about orders, but because recruitment is difficult, we have a single dare not answer."

With the increasing difficulty of recruitment in Guangzhou, the company has planned to withdraw all production links from Guangzhou, build headquarters in Guangzhou, and retain R & D and logistics. "With the increase of investment in cities in the mainland, more factories will be migrating to the mainland."