Shenzhen Primary And Secondary School Uniform Was Re Quoted For Price Rise.

Flaunt "meager profit"

A insider came to our newspaper yesterday and reported that the manufacturer was in the absence of supervision.

"Winning companies find more outsourcing"

In the past two days, this newspaper received a lot of complaints from parents about the quality problems of school uniforms.

People familiar with the matter say that this is not surprising, because most successful manufacturers outsource their uniforms, and some of them have also been sold to several factories. There are many enterprises that are not qualified enough.

He told reporters that the school uniform itself does not have high requirements for design links and production processes, but many outsourcing factories themselves may not be qualified. Therefore, it is inevitable to produce quality problems in school uniform production.

Style uniform fabric stagger

The insider told reporters that as early as 2001, Shenzhen's first public bidding school uniform enterprises, 5 school uniform manufacturers won the bid. "In fact, after one or two years of the tender, the quality of Shenzhen uniforms is good, but now it is just the same appearance, but the materials used by different manufacturers are different, so it is very confusing."

According to him, the education department had stipulated that the dress and shirt fabrics required for school uniforms should have "CVC" (English abbreviation, meaning cotton based blended fabric, and blending ratio was higher than cotton 50%). At that time, the price of Shenzhen fabric manufacturers was slightly higher in the industry, about 5.5 yuan / meter.

The insider said, "probably after 2003, the school uniform manufacturers have switched from the field to purchase the same fabric with" CVC "standard in order to reduce the cost. The price per meter is about 0.8 yuan.

However, the fabric purchased from different places has been greatly reduced in thickness, density or color, which is much worse than that in Shenzhen. "

People familiar with the matter said, "thin will not be said, the color is also dark yellow, close fitting will be very uncomfortable, can not really reach the real" CVC "high standard, if there are old school uniform and the current comparison, we can clearly see the gap, these clothes are children wear every day on the body.

Pure cotton plus a large amount of polyester for profit

The insider also told reporters that many of the school uniforms in Shenzhen started with pure cotton, but now they are getting worse and worse.

In 2005~2006, cotton prices rose at that time, and 5 school uniform manufacturers jointly launched 77 yuan / set of school uniforms, all of which were polyester.

"At that time, 88 yuan of uniforms sold at a price of 11 yuan. On the surface, manufacturers were losing money. But after the actual increase in prices, manufacturers made more money."

According to the reveler, "at that time, the city education bureau should know about this."

Since then, there are few school uniforms for pure cotton students, especially the current school uniforms for middle school students.

He told reporters that for example, there is a sportswear material "polyester cotton", of which polyester components even more than 70%, less than 30% cotton.

More bad manufacturers will make men's winter dress fabric shoddy, usually the normal purchase price is 18 yuan / meter, but if you buy that kind of cheap dyeing cloth, as long as 8 yuan / meter.

In the words of manufacturers, unlike food, "eating dead people" will not be a problem in short term, so it will not be easily found by students or parents.

Even in the face of the quality supervision department's sampling inspection, we can still be unable to criticize.

"Manufacturers will usually receive spot checks, when they will rush to do a few sets of sample response, of course, 100% qualified."

"There will be 50% profit before the price rises."

"Do not think that the rise in prices is really because the cost increases, manufacturers can not withstand, in fact, before the price increases, each garment will earn a lot, and more than half will be profits."

He took a detailed material list account to the reporter: a set of pupil summer wear is 7.5 yuan, the cost of cloth is 18~19 yuan, the cost of the whole dress is not more than 28 yuan, but before the price rises, it sells for 47 yuan, and the profit of the manufacturer can reach 19 yuan / set.

And the price is now 53 yuan, that is to say, a set of primary school summer wear can reach 25 yuan.

Another example is the winter dress of middle school students, whose original price is 170 yuan, but according to the cost of manual and cloth, the gross price is only 80 yuan, which means that a dress can earn 90 yuan, not to mention the price of 185 yuan after the price rises, and the price is more than half the profit.

"The more we sell, the bigger the increase."

"The price of this school uniform is" exquisite ".

The insider told reporters that Shenzhen summer is long and winter is short, so the student's summer wear sales are quite large. After this price adjustment, such as middle school student winter dress, this student wears less style, the surface price is 20 yuan, but its increase is less than 10%, but like the primary school student wears the summer clothing, the surface appears to have risen 8 yuan, but the increase has reached 15%.

If the quality is not good enough, parents will replace school uniforms more quickly, so these school uniform manufacturers will be "sitting and collecting money".

Yesterday, in response to the situation of the insider, our reporter hoped to further verify with the winning school uniform production enterprise, but unfortunately, no school uniform production enterprise is willing to explain the related problems of school uniform production cost, materials, outsourcing, quality and so on.

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Respond

The City Board of education avoided talking about price increases.

As for the cost accounting of the school uniform price increase, our reporter has consulted with the Municipal Education Bureau, hoping that the education department will provide accounting materials, but has not waited for the response.

A week after the newspaper sent an interview letter, the City Board of education sent a response last night.

This reporter found that this "response" is published on the website of the Education Bureau in November 4th, "the price adjustment of students' clothing in primary and secondary schools in Shenzhen". It still claims that the City Education Bureau has adhered to the principle of "quality, low cost and small profits", and it benefits students and their families.

And the other series of questions raised by this newspaper are not avoided.

The cost is 80 yuan, the price is 165 yuan.

Clothing industry to the newspaper broke the news, revealing the cost of clothing, questioned Shenzhen school uniform production enterprises have greater profit margins.

The prices of school clothes, Ma Jiyuan, Deng Yuansun, and Jing Bao, the newspaper reporters, have gone up. The fabrics are not as good as they used to be, and the quality is also lower than before.

This is a large number of parents yesterday to the newspaper's livelihood hotline call to reflect the problem.

According to common sense, school uniform production enterprises demand rising prices on the basis of rising costs, and the quality should at least be unchanged from before.

Mr. Liang, a clothing distributor in Shenzhen, and many people in the industry believe that the production cost provided by the clothing manufacturers previously interviewed by the newspaper is much higher than the actual situation. If the Municipal Education Bureau and the winning bidder do not publish the cost list, the grey area of the school uniform profit can not be estimated.

Cotton price

Already entered the downstream channel

"Harvesting cotton, processing cotton yarn, weaving, dyeing and cutting, this is the basic procedure of cotton clothing production", Mr. Liang said, at least from the manufacturer's point of view, the fabric of Shenzhen uniforms is mainly cotton. Therefore, the price of cotton constitutes the most basic element of the cost of Shenzhen school uniform.

According to Mr. Liang's tips, the reporter opened the cotton futures price announced on the Zhengzhou futures exchange website. Yesterday afternoon's market showed that Zheng cotton was 20119895 yuan / ton; Zheng cotton was 20320090 yuan / ton; Zheng cotton was 20520120 yuan / ton; Zheng cotton was 20720180 yuan / ton; zhengmian 20920330 yuan / ton; zhengmian 21120545 yuan / ton.

(reporter note: Zheng cotton refers to Zhengzhou cotton trading market, 201 - 211 refers to different types of cotton).

"The rise and fall of cotton prices are very much related to the international market. They began to rise sharply from the first half of last year, reaching the peak at the beginning of this year, and then coming down soon, which has basically fallen back to the level of the first half of last year," Mr. Liang said.

Reporters from the Zhengzhou futures market website to download the "monthly market report" in the cotton price curve, confirms the words of Mr. Liang, the chart shows that in early October of last year, the average price of cotton futures in Zhengzhou futures market was 22 thousand yuan / ton, then rose sharply, and it broke through 32 thousand yuan / ton in mid November last year; after that, it fell back to 25 thousand yuan / ton by the end of November; then it rose again, reaching the peak at the end of February this year, approaching 34 thousand yuan / ton; then fell again, until the end of October this year, it dropped to below 20 thousand yuan / ton.

"This graph shows that since February this year, the price of cotton has been going downwards, and now it has basically dropped to the level before the first half of last year," Mr. Liang said. This fact has proved that the main raw materials for production of cotton uniform and other school uniforms in Shenzhen are not too expensive.

"In fact, many school uniforms have lost a lot of cotton content."

In a word, profits, enterprises produce and sell products are for profit, general corporate profits are pparent, school uniforms are different, opaque bidding system makes its profits elusive.

- Mr. Liang, a clothing distributor in Shenzhen

Accounts payable

Cotton yarn about 100000 yuan / ton

Or 30 thousand yuan / ton?

Since the price of cotton in the futures market is less than 20 thousand yuan / ton, as the biggest raw material and the cotton yarn processed by cotton, how much will it cost? Some manufacturers and insiders interviewed by the reporter said that the price of cotton yarn rose to 140 thousand yuan / ton by the end of this year. Although there has been a fall, it has about 100000 yuan / ton.

In this regard, Mr. Liang, who has long been engaged in the fabric trade, said cotton yarn was affected by cotton. In the second half of last year, it also increased substantially. At the beginning of this year, it rose to around 50 thousand yuan / ton, and then gradually dropped. "At present, the best quality cotton yarn is only more than 30 thousand tons," Mr. Liang said, and the price of ordinary cotton yarn was lower.

Reporters in the Alibaba, the global textile network and other e-commerce websites have checked the price of cotton yarn. Indeed, it has confirmed Mr. Liang's claim that the wholesale price of "colored cotton yarn and 32 pure cotton yarns" in a wholesale company in Dongguan is priced at 32 thousand and 800 yuan / ton, which is the highest price of cotton yarn found by reporters yesterday afternoon. The wholesale price of "colored cotton yarn" and "pure cotton yarn" in the same company are priced at 29 thousand yuan / ton; another company offers "no clear, no silk three pure 21S pure cotton yarn" and the price is 23 thousand yuan / ton;

"Even if the cotton yarn is 30 thousand yuan / ton, it is equivalent to 30 yuan / kg, and the weight of a garment is not more than half a kilogram (250 grams) at most, so that even if it is a pure cotton uniform, the cost of cotton yarn is only 7.5 yuan". Mr. Liang said that dyeing is also an important part of the cost of school uniform except for cotton yarn. "The school uniform in Shenzhen is mainly blue dye. It is very simple. It is basically listed at 8000 to 9000 yuan / ton, and it will not reach 10 thousand yuan / ton of some manufacturers."

The quality of the school uniform is worse after the price rise?

Parents questioned the unsupervised quality of school uniforms

Yesterday, the newspaper 83525252 people's livelihood hotline became the "school uniform hotline". Hundreds of parents called to express their concern about school uniform. Most of the readers said that after the price rises, the quality of school uniform was not improved, but it became worse. Parents questioned the absence of quality supervision of school uniforms.

Wash the colors several times.

Mr. Lin's two children attended secondary schools in Buji, but Mr. Lin, who was originally doing the business of clothing materials, was very unhappy with the quality of school uniforms.

He told reporters that the children were buying school uniforms at the selling point of school uniforms near Buji middle school.

The autumn sportswear that is often bought is washed out one or two times, and the color is very bad. It is not like a new school uniform just bought.

He also complained to reporters that the color of clothes was dark and the children wore no spirit, especially affecting their mental outlook.

This is something parents do not want to see.

He also told reporters that he had been engaged in cloth business for many years, and that the color fastness of his children's school uniforms could not be seen enough. He heard that many sampling checks for school uniforms in Shenzhen had passed, and now he doubts whether the education department's sampling inspection is watered down.

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Mixed cotton from pure cotton

Ms Hu's youngest son studied in Luohu District for the first year. She was very clear about the changes in the quality of school uniforms in the past ten years.

When the eldest son was in junior high school in 2002, the fabric of the autumn sportswear was pure cotton, and it was very thick, and the effect of keeping out the cold was very good.

In particular, the shirt fabric in the dress is also excellent. It is comfortable to wear and does not need ironing.

This year's youngest son has just entered junior high school, and the quality of the new school uniform she bought is a big surprise.

"The autumn is thin and not pure cotton. The child feels uncomfortable and often does not wear it.

Let's not mention the shirt fabric. It's not thin yet. I'll iron it every Monday. "

Ms. Hu said that the school uniform should reflect the spirit of the students, and at the same time play the role of keeping warm and keeping the cold. Now the quality is obviously down. I really don't know how many people are making a profit from it. She expects that the price of the school uniform can be changed to the quality of school uniform 9 years ago.

There are holes in the new school uniform.

Mrs Lau has 3 children, who are studying in grade one, grade two and grade four. "I spend a lot of money on school uniforms every year, but I feel it's not worth it!" "in early November, I bought my school uniform for my children. I just paid the money. When I opened my school uniform, I found that there was a hole in my jacket. Fortunately, I didn't walk out of the school store door, and I immediately changed one."

Liu said, before, she had bought shoes for children in school uniforms store, so the glue on the shoes was not glued, and the big mouth between the soles and the upper shoes was replaced. When the second day was replaced, the salesperson of the store asked him to issue the purchase document, otherwise it would not be returned.

"What is even more annoying is that after the price rises, the quality of school uniform is even worse."

Liu said that although the children's school uniform written 100 percent cotton, but a little experienced people know that there must be other materials, such as polyester.

And the school uniform is airtight, and the clothes are soaked through the sweat of the child.

School uniform bruises chicken

The quality of school uniforms has also become a hot topic for Shenzhen residents after the price increases.

Last weekend, Shenzhen news network "I said Shenzhen thing" column, a net friend named "520159908" netizens posting said, children wearing school uniform autumn dress trousers, not wearing underwear, the result of the children's "chicken" and pants after friction swelling, resulting in infection suppurative; netizen "Xu Qingfeng" replies said, "my son read junior high school, bought two school uniform pants, the result of school two months later, crotch all crack, originally bought is still expensive."

Question

Why tender announcement hastily released

Is the winning bidder long established?

Since the price of raw materials such as cotton yarn is so "foggy", the approved cost of school uniform is even more "clouded".

Yesterday afternoon, an insider who asked not to be named provided a "tender document information", "Shenzhen city primary and secondary school students' fixed-point production and supply qualification bidding project", which was issued by the municipal government procurement center, which includes the "student wear tax inclusive cost list".

Manufacturers do not hesitate to operate at a loss?

The reporter found that the tax cost of some varieties of school uniform listed in "information" is higher than the current price.

For example, the winter sportswear (healthy clothing) of winter wear for middle school students is now priced at 103 yuan, while the approved tax cost is up to 106 yuan. The uniform in autumn and winter is now priced at 185 yuan, while the tax included in the "information" costs 206 yuan.

Is the manufacturer willing to run at a loss at the expense of the students? "Of course not, it's like buying a bargain, shouting a high price, and then descending a little bit, as if he has conceded", the insider said, with his experience, the middle school uniform winter suit sportswear costs about 66 yuan, 40 yuan lower than the "information" list, and the actual cost of the winter uniform is only 110 yuan, which is 96 yuan lower than the data in the information.

Tendering announcement: Internet connection on May Day

The insider also expressed doubts about the time of the tender announcement.

"I remember that the tender announcement was only posted on the website of the municipal government procurement center in April 29th, and in accordance with the requirements of the notice, it was necessary to sign up for the tender before April 29th to May 19th.

Before 9:30 May 20th, the manufacturers who participated in the bidding must submit the bidding documents such as the clothing samples and the inspection reports provided by the Longhua inspection center, and upload them to the "Shenzhen municipal government procurement network".

According to the insider, in accordance with the tender notice, the bidder is doubtful and needs to log on to the "Shenzhen municipal government procurement network" before 18 May 4th.

"At this time, there are suspicions that there is time for the suspects to go to May 1, and there are 3 days of sabbatical leave. Many manufacturers have not noticed this announcement at all. When we notice, we will be late to prepare the tender materials."

The insider said, according to the normal procedure, the light detection will take a week, and 5 sets of samples will be produced for each school uniform. All of them will be more than 30 sets of samples. All of them will be submitted for inspection, and it will be a little tight for more than 1 months. However, some manufacturers submitted the tender in May 15th. "How can it be so fast if we did not know the news of the City Education Bureau's invitation to tender in advance?"

The successful bidder has already decided.

According to the insider, after the announcement of the tender announcement, the municipal government procurement center has not been calibrated until May 29th, and a total of 17 enterprises were invited to participate in the tender (including the current 9 successful companies). At that time, only 9 places were selected to be selected for the production and supply enterprises, and 3 students were selected for production and supply enterprises.

To this end, the municipal government procurement center has recommended some high score and large scale enterprises to the City Education Bureau, but they were rejected by the Municipal Education Bureau. They insisted on choosing the 9 enterprises to win the bid.

The insider also revealed, "during the bidding process, the enterprises will inquire into each other's results. The original 5 enterprises expressed concern about 1 other companies, but the rest of them were perfectly satisfied. The final result is the same as the initial estimate of the enterprise. Is there any suspicion?" the insider questioned, "according to the requirements, the bid winning enterprise has the elimination mechanism, but after 10 years, which enterprise has been eliminated?"

In addition, the insider disclosed that "the experts who designed the whole tender were from the 5 enterprises. They joined up with the Education Bureau to formulate the requirements of the bid, which can be said to be both an athlete and a referee."

Some articles are obviously unfair to other enterprises.