"International Shoe Capital" Zhoukou: Dream To Sail

UGG shoes, Reebok shoes, and McDonald's gift toys that are popular with children.

Many people do not know that these world famous brand shoes are "born" in Zhoukou, Henan.

At the same time, more famous shoemaking enterprises are gathering in Zhoukou.

In August 27th, in 2011, Zhoukou held the seminar on the pfer, cooperation and exchange of shoes industry.

510 businessmen from Taiwan Footwear Association, China Light Industry Crafts Import and export chamber and Seattle Taiwan Businessmen Association attended the meeting.

The conference has signed 63 projects and the contract amount is 13 billion 280 million yuan.

Among them, the shoe industry 12 projects, the contract amount of 3 billion 190 million yuan.

As one of the highlights of industrial pfer.

Over the past two years, many cities in Henan, including Zhoukou, Anyang and Zhengzhou, have become the "low-lying land" of the shoemaking industry.

Among them, only one city in Zhoukou has recruited 19 shoemaking enterprises from Taiwan, Hongkong and Shenzhen to invest and build factories.

In the first half of this year, Zhoukou exported 4 million 140 thousand pairs of shoes and exported 42 million 610 thousand US dollars, accounting for 45.8% and 58.9% of the province's total.

Shoe industry shifts to Henan

"All over the world, we finally settled in Zhoukou."

At the August 27th meeting, the Taiwan footwear industry association, Lin Zhao Jie, said: "20 years ago, we shifted the Taiwan shoe industry to Dongguan, making Dongguan a world-renowned" international shoe capital ".

5 years ago, we began to search for new industrial pfer locations in mainland China, and finally settled in Zhoukou last year.

"In the late 80s and early 90s of last century, the environment of Taiwan shoemaking industry which had been in operation for 20 years changed."

Lin Zhaojie said, so the shoe industry in Taiwan was pferred to Dongguan. "20 years later, Dongguan is also facing the same problem as Taiwan.

With the appreciation of the renminbi and the increase in land costs, the problem of shortage of workers has become increasingly prominent.

Lin Zhaojie said that shoemaking industry needs to have the following characteristics: rich labor force, plain, convenient pportation, agreed to export first, and gradually switch to domestic sales.

To fight in Henan is to value Henan's incomparable multiparty advantage.

Up to now, Henan Zhoukou has attracted more than 20 shoemaking enterprises from Taiwan, Hongkong and other places. The shoe industry has accumulated more than 6 billion yuan of investment, the existing capacity is 12 million pairs, and 30 thousand people have been employed. A shoe-making industrial cluster with Fugou Bao Chang, Xihua Kai Hong, Shang Shui Qiang Hong and Luyi Xianglong has been initially formed.

Among them, Xihua kaishong shoes company has a total investment of 110 million yuan, with an annual output of 4 million pairs of high-end fashion women's shoes, and 7 production lines have been completed and put into operation last year.

Fugou County Bao Chang shoe company has now formed a production scale of 150 thousand pairs per month, and the company plans to achieve a monthly output of 1 million pairs in 3 years.

"International shoes capital" dream of sailing

Industrial pfer has created unlimited opportunities for the development of shoe making industry in Zhoukou.

At the same time, a blueprint of "international shoes capital" that lasted for ten years and covered the development of the whole shoemaking industry chain also gradually emerged.

In fact, as early as last year, Zhoukou formulated the development plan for the export base of Zhoukou's footwear industry. Behind the rapid development of Zhoukou's footwear industry, which occupies half of Henan, it reflects the dream of "international shoes capital" outlined in its ten year blueprint.

"Our main goal is to build the central shoe capital. We plan to ensure that every township in Zhoukou has a shoemaking enterprise by 2015."

Last year, the director of the Zhoukou development and Reform Commission, who was interviewed by reporters, revealed.

According to the plan of Zhoukou, if there is no accident, by 2020, an export oriented, total area of 39400 Mu will be distributed in 11 industrial agglomeration areas of Zhoukou. The "central shoe capital", which integrates R & D, production, logistics and supporting equipment trade, will be completed.

The "central shoe capital" is not the ultimate dream of Henan.

Lin Zhaojie said that the relocation of shoemaking industry in Taiwan can make Dongguan a world-renowned "international shoe capital", while Zhoukou and Henan have rich labor resources and other advantages. I believe that after 10~20 years of efforts, Henan's "international shoes capital" is no longer a dream.

Zhang Jie, vice president of the China Light Industry Crafts Import and Export Chamber of Commerce, also believes that with the further development of shoemaking industry in Henan, more and more Henan people will be employed at home. More world famous brands will also be made in Henan.

Lin Zhaojie said that it would take at least 20 to 30 years for Henan to go from foundry to its own brand.

If you want to be a hundred years shoe industry, you can't be more anxious. Only when the foundry is bigger and stronger can the independent famous brand emerge.