Private Textile Enterprises Encounter Strong "Cold Current"

Guangdong's report on the implementation of the national economic and social development plan in the first half of 2011 said that the current production and operation of small and medium-sized enterprises is more difficult.

According to the survey, 50% of enterprises said they were in a state of loss or a profit margin of less than 2%, while only 22.2% of the enterprises reported a profit margin of more than 5%.

A barometer of manufacturing is called autumn.

If winter comes, can spring be far behind?

First line survey

The sharp increase in labor disputes and capital difficulties affect high-tech and high-yield enterprises.

Private enterprises face strong cold spell

"This year's order is only 2/3 in 2008, less than half of the 2009 hot market."

Lin Xiao, the boss of Foshan Tong Meng Garments Co. Ltd., will be worried about the third phase of the Canton Fair.

"Now the list is basically the production of Christmas decorations in Europe and the United States, if this time period can not get a single, it is equal to three to six months in the future will be trapped in the predicament that can not start."

But the weak volume of the first phase of the Canton Fair makes Lin Xiao feel hopeless.

Reporters in the Pearl River Delta Yangtze River Delta two

Labor and management

Liu Mingyu, who has been in charge of labor disputes in Houjie in Dongguan since 2001, has been very busy recently.

"The Labor Dispute Coordinator for so many years is the worst."

As Liu Mingyu processed the data on the desktop, he said, "from July this year, there was basically no concept of Saturday and Sunday. At the same time, there were 4 workers at my desk."

Outside his office, he was surrounded by four hundred or five hundred workers, who had been on the streets.

In October 14th, Houjie Town, Dongguan, held a special conference on arrears of wages and absconded work, and discussed the Countermeasures for the frequent arrears of wages in enterprises. The enterprise margin system will be strictly implemented. For those owners who have premeditated arrears for more than 50 thousand yuan, the arrest warrant will be put into custody.

Liu Mingyu disclosed that a town in Dongguan has already paid several million yuan of workers' Arrears of wages for fleeing enterprises this year.

The so-called enterprise margin system in Houjie Town stipulates that the existing small and medium-sized enterprises whose assets are not enough to pay three months' wages will require them to provide the lessor or the local community with the insufficient part of the balance of the minimum monthly wage of the existing workers in Dongguan as a guarantee for the risk of arrears of wages.

For enterprises that do not pay wages for workers for two months, the communities will not issue proof of the site, nor will the business departments issue their business licenses.

"The strength of the enterprise, hundreds of thousands of yuan deposit must be able to get out.

For those enterprises that are not strong enough, they can not give money to them, and can only say goodbye to them.

Li Huiqin, Secretary of Houjie Town Committee, said at the meeting.

"Do you mean this is not my life?" said Liu Hong, who has been doing business for many years in Dongguan. The hundreds of thousands of yuan deposit is the last straw on camel's back to him.

"The total value of an order is millions of tens of millions, and now it has to be fully completed before it can be collected. The purchase of raw materials, the payment of workers' wages, and the leasing of equipment and equipment are also needed."

Liu Hongtu said, "in the past, you can also borrow money from the bank with orders, but this year even the loan officer can not see it."

Foshan, which is close to Dongguan, is also facing a lot of labor disputes.

In August 20th, workers from Foshan Dongfang plastic products factory suddenly rushed to the golden sand bridge for wages, resulting in the bridge being blocked for up to an hour. Finally, the local government paid workers 14 million yuan in wages and financial compensation.

In view of more and more labour disputes, a similar meeting on prevention and resolution of labour disputes was held in Shunde, Foshan in October 18th.

The number of labour disputes is on the rise in the first three quarters of this year.

However, when the reporters inquired about the specific data of labor disputes, the relevant departments said it was not convenient to publish them.

According to reports, nearly four months, the Pearl River Delta labor dispute growth of nearly 30%.

Squeeze upstream suppliers

Lin Xiao said that he had spoken with other companies in the market, and the collective price increase was 10%.

Although the company also suffered a decline in orders in 2008, Lin Xiao believed that there was only a

Although there has been a good discussion with the peers, Lin Xiao still has little confidence in the price increase at the Canton Fair, but he still plans to raise the price first.

"In particular, some old customers can rise 2%~3%, I have already satisfied."

"Since July, there has been a significant turning point in export growth."

Professor Xiao Yaofei, deputy director of the international economic and Trade Research Center of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, said that although the customs statistics show that the export volume of Guangdong is still growing, the increase in export volume has dropped significantly after deducting price factors.

The data released recently by the Guangdong branch of the General Administration of Customs show that in September, Guangdong's foreign trade import and export amounted to 80 billion 30 million US dollars, an increase of 8.3%, down 4.4 percentage points from August, and lower than the national growth rate by more than ten percentage points.

The statistics of the first phase of the Canton fair show that the sale of mechanical and electrical products to the US has dropped by 33.1% compared with the previous one, and the European market has also dropped by 21.3%.

In October 26th, the Foshan textile and Garment Association announced an investigation.

The report pointed out that Foshan textile and garment SMEs and individual industrial and commercial households accounted for more than 80% of the total number of enterprises and businesses in the textile and garment industry of the whole city. In the 1~9 months of this year, most of the small and medium enterprises and individual businesses were in a state of underemployment or downtime and closed down.

Up to now, more than 500 garment enterprises have gone bankrupt or pferred.

Prior to the Xiaolan Town Government in Zhongshan a research report also showed that clothing, footwear, chemical adhesive industry orders situation is not optimistic.

Among the enterprises visited, it was generally reflected that the number of orders decreased significantly in the first half of the year, accounting for 70% of the number of visits. It is expected that orders will continue to decrease in the second half of this year, with a reduction of 20%~60%.

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"Now we have to do everything possible to control costs."

Lin Xiao is also very helpless, insiders told reporters that the so-called cost control is no more than two ways, one is to increase productivity, and the other is to compress the profit margins of upstream enterprises.

But with the development of PRD manufacturing enterprises for so many years, the space for productivity improvement has become very small.

We only look at the upstream enterprises. Reporter survey found that some clothing enterprises in Foshan have cut the price of cloth suppliers by 20%, and the price of printing and dyeing enterprises has been cut by 15%.

The price cut to upstream suppliers happened not only in garment enterprises, but also in the collapse of Foshan Dongfang plastics factory. A well-known household appliance enterprise suddenly knocked down 20%~30% on the suppliers of plastic processing, which directly led to the 22 year old Dongfang plastics factory.

People familiar with the matter said.

Lin Xiao said that in the middle of this year, in order to reduce costs, he had found a company that had never worked together, but the result was that some of the fabrics were too high.

Hi-tech industry joins

In the press survey, not only the traditional labor-intensive enterprises have difficulty in surviving, but also some high-tech industries supported by the government are also facing difficulties.

In October 8th, Mao Guojun, chairman of Shenzhen Jun Du Li Industrial Co., Ltd. and his relatives in the company were all missing.

The new high-tech enterprise that sells over 100 million yuan also has an old story hidden by the boss.

Jun Du Li has a reputation in the LED industry. It has been rated as "the top 10 enterprises in China's Shenzhen industry (Optoelectronics)" and "the top ten enterprises in Guangdong lighting and energy saving products".

In 2009, the sales volume of Jun Du Li was around 80 million yuan, reaching 100 million yuan in 2010.

But until Jun's walk, it was hard for people to find the industries that were mainly supported by different regions.

In October 24th, the Shenzhen semiconductor lighting industry development association held a symposium. Its honorary president Wang Dianfu said that 80 LED enterprises in Shenzhen had quietly closed down or liquidated this year.

Insiders told reporters that in recent years, governments in Dongguan, Huizhou, Shenzhen and other places are encouraging the development of LED industry.

However, the early development investment of these high-tech industries is too high, which leads to the lack of liquidity in the industry.

"A large number of cottage factories have entered the market through counterfeiting and other methods, resulting in brand confusion and vicious competition."

This led to the so-called high-tech industries turned into a shell, without wind and waves.

Faced with the harsh economic situation, the government began to stretch its visible hand.

Wen Jiabao, premier of the State Council, said during the 110 Canton Fair that he would increase credit support to foreign trade enterprises.

At the same time, we should actively expand imports.

In October 25th, Guangdong took the lead in issuing a number of opinions on promoting imports. It stressed that while stabilizing exports, the scale of imports should be actively expanded to ensure that the province's import growth exceeded 8.5% in 2011, and strive to achieve two digit growth.

For this purpose, Guangdong has set up a special fund to promote imports. 2012~2014 has been allocated 250 million yuan annually by the provincial finance, giving discount to the advanced technology, products and equipment imported into the national and provincial directories to encourage imports of technology and products, giving discount to the import loans of enterprises, and supporting the import base, import distribution system, insurance import credit insurance, import promotion and public services.

In terms of tax preferences, the opinion put forward that it will actively strive to reduce the import tariff of some energy, raw materials and consumer goods to the state.

"Stimulating economic development cannot be at the expense of structural adjustment."

Zhao Xuping, director of the Guangdong Economic Commission's economic operation Department, analyzed a series of actions of the government for journalists.

He believes that in the current market environment, the government can do two main things. One is to provide quality services to enterprises. The two is to make full use of financial funds to support economic development.

In terms of service for enterprises, Zhao Xuping stressed that we should further increase support for small and medium enterprises, especially small and micro enterprises, and provide a good external environment for the survival and development of enterprises, so that the market can fully allocate resources.

In the use of financial means, it will be biased, focusing on supporting the development of strategic emerging industries, technological innovation and so on.

Spread to high profit industries

Xiao Yu (a pseudonym) has been entangled in these two days. As a member of the project department, he has gone out and asked for three days.

Xiao Yu's project department accepts large power generation equipment, and the owner is a large power plant.

At this time of the year, the owners had taken the initiative to pay the bill.

But this year, the money has not been put in place, so that all employees in the Department must pay extra bills. After three days, the office is still empty.

Mr. Zhong, a hydropower construction unit, also encountered the same problem.

They undertake the project of power group and outsourcing some projects to private enterprises.

In the capital chain, Mr. Zhong's unit is in the middle link: the power group pays the project to Mr. Zhong, and Mr. Chung pays the owner of the downstream private enterprise. Recently, the owner owed the debt. Mr. Zhong could not pay the owner of the private enterprise.

In addition to electricity, the chemical industry is also sluggish.

"The three quarter of the chemical industry is very sluggish, production and sales fell by 20% over the two quarter of this year."

Jiangsu Guo boss, who has been in the chemical industry for many years, said.

The construction machinery industry is also the case, a domestic private heavy heavy industry executives told reporters.

"I met with other business owners at the provincial meeting, complaining that the cash flow of enterprises is too tight, especially in the absence of foreign loans, especially the triangle debt, which will bring the Domino effect."

The executive believes that corporate earnings in the fourth quarter will be worse than the three quarter earnings that have been announced.

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Guo believes that many reasons lead to difficulties in the industries with higher incomes, such as hydropower, chemical engineering and construction machinery. First, the discount rate of the acceptance bill is high, which aggravates the burden of the enterprise; the two is the tight credit policy.

"The difficulty of corporate accounting is mainly related to the credit crunch.

With tight money, many SMEs can not borrow money, and the construction starts to decrease, the operation shrinks, and the industrial chain will be pmitted. Every enterprise will be affected.

The executives believe that the tight capital chain of SMEs will spread to large enterprises in the same industry chain.

Three is the real estate downturn, real estate enterprises are hydropower, construction machinery and other industries of key customers.

"The real estate factor is the most direct and the most important influence, and the industries involved are affected."

The energy industry has also been affected.

The three quarterly report released by many domestic wind power manufacturing listed companies showed that commercial performance of large and small wind power equipment factories has declined sharply. Among them, the net profit of Jin Feng technology has dropped by 60%. The decline in product prices and the slowdown in downstream market demand have become the main reasons for many listed companies to explain the decline in their performance.