Coastal Textile And Garment Exports: There Is A Single Order But No Order.

In late November, we visited Guangdong, Jiangsu, Fujian, Zhejiang, Dalian and Qingdao. The survey found that facing the outside market The situation is that listed companies, large state-owned enterprises and trading companies engaged in import and export in manufacturing industry are strong and well funded. Resources More and stronger coping ability, less impact, relatively optimistic outlook, and some small businesses are pessimistic in all respects. From the view of the industry, traditional labor-intensive industries such as textile and clothing, footwear industry Such light industry is undoubtedly the most affected.

In Dongguan, one of the most prominent cities in China, with the most concentrated development of processing trade, the foreign trade and Economic Cooperation Department recently conducted a survey on the operation of 300 different types of foreign-funded export industrial enterprises, and found that quite a few export enterprises were in a more critical environment than the financial crisis.

The materials provided by the Propaganda Department of the Dongguan municipal Party committee to our newspaper show that enterprises are facing the dilemma of shrinking international market: first, the phenomenon of "de Stocking" in the European and American markets, and the demand continues to slow down. For example, Wal-Mart Store Inc has lowered the inventory cycle from 8 weeks to 6 weeks, and over 70% of the enterprises' orders have been flat or down year by year, and orders fell 15% to 20% on average. Two, there is a marked change in the mode of market purchase. Customer orders are more cautious, small bills, short lists and urgent orders increase. Part of the order transfer to Southeast Asia, such as Nike shoes global production order layout, has shifted from China to Vietnam. Nike sports shoes, the largest foundry enterprise in Dongguan, Dongguan Yuyuan shoe factory, exported 9.1% from 1 to August.

"We have stopped production for 10 days this month, which is basically not in the past. When the financial crisis stopped, it stopped two times this year, the first time in early April, this is the second time. Qiu Danhong, general manager of Pioneer Technology (Dongguan) Co., Ltd., told our reporter. Because pioneer suppliers are mainly from Japan and Thailand, they are more affected by natural disasters. He expects that the company's output will drop by 20% this year, from about 10 million units per year to about 8 million units.

Small and micro enterprises: there is no order on the list.

Guangzhou's Luo Chong Wai area is littered with large and small factories that produce textile garments and accessories. There are clothes, buttons, clothing lace, and so on. A three storey house is distributed on seven or eight of the garment factories, ten of which are about hundreds of square meters. However, when upstairs and downstairs, it was found that the buildings on the third floor were still under construction, and the two floor had been closed down. Even though some of the machines were still in operation, the business condition was also bleak. Garment factory, so some other supporting manufacturers are having a hard time.

For example, there are more than 100 workers at the best time of Shang Xuan clothing business, and now only more than 30 remain. The factory can only maintain less than 1/3 productivity, and more than 2/3 of the machines are idle. And Tan boss most worried about is after the Spring Festival, "we now have a single no order, now hand on this list, finished, the next single can not pick up, then nothing to do."

"Anyway, as long as we still have jobs, no matter how much money we earn or whether we lose money or lose money, we must continue to work. Otherwise, when workers leave, the machine will stop. We spend a lot of money on so many machines, but as second-hand processing is very worthless, so long as there is still some money in hand, it will continue to go on. This year will be the case. If we wait until next spring, if there is still shortage of suppliers, customers and workers, that will be the most difficult time for us. Tan boss told reporters this way.

The status quo of the making of trousers is similar. Recently, factories started to wear children's clothing that they had never been willing to do before. The boss told reporters: "in 2008, there was no such difficulty in the second half of this year. Some of the factories near us are dry and dry and shut down without work.

A woman worker named Yang told reporters that many of her fellow countrymen were returning home because they had nothing to do.

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Before the recruitment and transfer advertising column near the garment factory, the reporter met a female worker in Hunan. She came here at the beginning of this year. At the beginning of the factory, there were fifty or sixty people, and now there are only 10 left. "I feel this year's business is bad. Many workers go elsewhere, but compared with last year, most factories are depressed, and we are not very good at finding jobs." Peng elder sister told reporters.

Textile and garment industry is more obvious in the decline of exports.

"In the late November, many small clothing factories in Suzhou have closed their annual vacation," said Xiao Xiao, general manager of Suzhou East Jin Clothing Co., Ltd. The overall market is very poor, and most enterprises have difficulty in survival. Compared with the 2008 financial crisis, orders are now more visible in the visible range, which can be said that orders are decreasing and production has been reduced. For our company, we were three shifts in 2002, then two shifts, and now only one shift. "

This reporter learned from the Qingdao Business Bureau and the Ministry of Commerce's correspondent office in Qingdao that since this year, orders for textile and garment export enterprises in Qingdao have decreased by 20% to 30%. Some small processing enterprises with low technology content and small added value are facing serious survival risks. The transfer trend of export orders is obvious, and Vietnam, Pakistan, India and other low and medium price products have obvious competitive advantages. At the same time, the trade environment is tightening and risks are increasing.

Not only textile and clothing, electronics export enterprises are also miserable. Guan Lihua, general manager of Xiamen Jiaxing Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., told our reporter that in the first 10 months of this year, the export volume of his company decreased by more than 30% compared with the same period last year. As the export cost increased by 5% - 19% over the previous year, the company's export profit margins have been squeezed seriously, and they are all above two figures. This year, only about 5% - 9%. Guan Lihua is not optimistic about the foreign trade situation of next year. He will draw out the "significant deterioration" option after completing the questionnaire on the export situation next year.

Qingdao's foreign trade department statistics show that this year, Qingdao's export growth to the United States has dropped from quarter to quarter, from 24.8% in the first quarter to 17.8% in the first half, and back to 13.6% in September. Malay levy, manager of the International Department of Qingdao Liang Mu group, expects that the overseas market will have a great impact and it will take at least 35 years to recover.

Xiong Yanliang, director of the Xiamen Municipal Bureau of Commerce, said that for the external environment, the economic recovery in Europe and the United States this year was not as good as expected. From the domestic point of view, the RMB appreciation is too fast this year, stable in the first half of 2009, beginning to appreciate in the second half of the year, RMB appreciation in 2010 by about 3%, and nearly 5% in 2011.