Pearl River Delta Garment Industry: No Sign Of Peak Production Season

Visit in recent days Shenzhen Many enterprises in Dongguan, Foshan, Zhongshan, Shantou and Jiangmen are involved. clothing Toys, food, footwear industry Electronics, machinery manufacturing, sports equipment, lighting, LED and other industries. According to the survey, most enterprises believe that the new year Order It is better to imagine pessimism, but on the whole, it is more difficult for traditional labor-intensive enterprises such as clothing, toys, shoes and so on.

　 Toys: factories are shrinking, shutting down and moving.

[originating from Shenzhen]

More than a month before the Spring Festival, the toy factory of Chen Shichun, Jiangxi, has already left early. "The boss doesn't have a list to do," Chen Shichun said. This is not uncommon in Longgang, Shenzhen. The town of Pinghu and Pingdi town gathered large and small toys factories.

In February 1st, at the beginning of the lunar new year ten, the Hongkong water valley toy factory in Ping Di Town, Longgang was officially launched. The water valley toy factory mainly receives orders from Disney, Tokyo, Japan. Because the effects of nuclear radiation and earthquakes have gradually subsided, customers have placed more orders in the first half of this year than last year. "In 2011, we had fewer orders than last year, and some of them even lost money, but compared with their peers, it was pretty good," Gu Liping said. Gu Liping has worked in the water valley toy factory for eight or nine years. In her memory, there are hundreds of toy factories in Longgang. Nowadays, the toy factories here have been reduced to dozens. "A bankrupt toy factory has more than one thousand workers, and the rest have two or three hundred people," Gu Liping said. "Many toy factories have long been in the dark, most of them have gone bankrupt, and some have moved to Heyuan, Jieyang or the mainland because of the cheap labor there."

The cost of a toy factory is labor. "Artificially rose too much," Gu Liping said. The most junior workers on the assembly line have gone to 2200 yuan a month, and the average number of workers in the factory is more than 800, and the labor cost is 2500 yuan / month. In order to retain workers, the factory is divided into big and small weeks, with sick leave, marriage leave and even housing provident fund, which is "comparable to state-owned enterprises". "Compared with the past, the profit is much thinner. Some of the lists know that they do not make money. There's no way to earn labor costs and booth fees, "she said.

According to Gu Liping observation, most of them are Hong Kong funded enterprises and foreign-funded enterprises. These enterprises are mainly engaged in outsourcing. Last year, the situation in Europe was not good. Many foreign orders were cancelled or reduced. Some factories could not receive the order and finally dumped it. Gu Liping said that many enterprises have not made much money in the past two years, but they still have to support them until the end, so that others will not be able to support them, and you will have a chance.

Over the years, Shenzhen toy export ranks first in the country, but according to relevant media reports, export toy enterprises registered with customs at the end of 2011 have been reduced to about 300 from about 450 at the beginning of the year, and the number of enterprises has been reduced by more than 30% in just one year. The same situation is not unique to Shenzhen.

The Hongkong Federation of industry, the Hongkong Toy Association and the toy manufacturers association of Hongkong surveyed 149 Hongkong toy manufacturers in the mainland a year ago and found that rising prices of raw materials, rising wages in the mainland and weak export markets have become the biggest challenges facing Hongkong toy manufacturers at this stage. 62.4% of the respondents said that the turnover in 2011 was worse than the previous year, and 57% expected that business would be bad in 2012.

Clothing: sharp reduction in orders, many enterprises change careers

[from Foshan, Dongguan]

"Guangdong is still the first largest producer of clothing in the country, but the growth rate has dropped sharply," the Guangdong clothing and apparel industry association found in a thorough survey in the province a year ago. Clothing companies only reduced production by 13% in October compared with the previous year. "After the Spring Festival of 2010, the clothing enterprises in Guangdong were in the peak season of production increase, but in 2011, such production peak season never appeared," the association official pointed out. After the festival, reporters went on March 3, and many garment companies admitted that the signs of the coming peak season had not yet appeared.

Once prosperous, now very depressed.

February 4th, Chao'an Road, Foshan. In the city of Foshan's children's clothing, there are big "demolition" characters on the walls of one old factory building and one old factory building. Each of the hollowed windows is covered with black, big eyes. The small advertisement that the garment factory and embroidery factory sell at a low price are mingled with the small advertisements for the lathe workers, the shearing workers and the pattern workers.

Although it is hard to imagine the prosperity of the past, there are thousands of small factories supporting children's clothing production in the four or five kilometer area, with an annual output of more than 2.7 hundred children's clothing, accounting for 1/3 of the country's children's clothing production. "At the best time, the clothing factories here often work overtime all night," a passer-by said. However, with the demolition of the children's clothing city at the end of last year, it is already a mess. Only the surrounding lotus seed buildings and other buildings are left behind, leaving several cloth shops and garment factories.

Zhou Xinyue, the boss of a cloth shop in lotus seed building, said that the children's clothing factory had been demolished. Most of the embroidery factories in the original garment factories went to the surrounding areas, and some of them moved to the mainland. The shops that had not yet been demolished were greatly affected by them, and the people who took the order were much less than before. "Last year, after the festival, three hundred or four hundred pieces of cloth were left at this time.

After a few days' work, Zhou Xinyue discovered that this year's situation is not very good. "At this time ago, many people came to see job advertisements to find jobs, and no one could see them this year," she said, pointing to a small advertisement advertised on the roadside. "A dyeing factory we contacted is thirteen years old, and it has not been opened yet. Some garment factories even started twenty years ago. It was not so late." She said that ten of the six or seven companies that had been in the garment factory with her were transferred to other businesses. "Making money is becoming more and more difficult. Some people earn money to buy a car and buy a car. The garment factory made so much money 10 years ago and made so much money in ten years. {page_break}

Shops reduce factory losses

Along the road to the south, not far north, is the children's clothing trading center around the city. After the demolition of the children's clothing city, the children's clothing trading center, which has only one or two minutes' drive, should be prosperous. However, reporters found that this is far from the case. In February 4th, the reporter went to the central city children's clothing trading center. Although it was only two days away from the Lantern Festival, only three of the shops on the first floor were open, and the rest of the doors were locked, and the family had been emptied. On the two floor, the door of "Foshan central children's clothing exchange center" has been locked, and some of the sites have become the local social security fund Bureau's work site. In the dark, many empty shops were signboards of "x children's clothing", which showed that businessmen gathered here. "The two floor has been out of business for a long time. Last year, business was very light, at least 50%, and this year has not yet received a single".

The same happened in Dongguan. In February 1st, a knitting factory worker in Liaobu Huang Keng industrial area, Dongguan, told reporters that only 6 workers returned from the factory. Only thirty workers are expected to come back after the Lantern Festival. Since the second half of last year, there has not been any single receipt, which is basically at a loss.

In the survey, many garment enterprises are worried about the order this year, and think that the outlook is uncertain. According to the Guangdong apparel and apparel industry association, in fact, the lack of orders in the apparel industry has been seen since 2011. The number of orders for many enterprises in 2011 has been reduced by about 30%. Nearly half of the export enterprises have indicated that orders are seriously lacking, and most of the other enterprises' orders can only be maintained until the Spring Festival.

　 Shoe industry: wholesale, retail and factories are not good.

[originating from Dongguan]

The North Ring Road of Houjie Town, Dongguan, known as the "shoe industry", is the most concentrated area of shoe industry in Dongguan. It has more than 10 professional markets: laoxia market, Hao pan shoe material square, Hongyun shoe material square, Kangmei shoe city, Husen shoe city and so on. In fact, Dongguan Houjie laoxia community is known as "10 pairs of shoes in the world have 1 pairs of products from here", with an annual export volume of 500 million pairs.

In February 2nd, the reporter went to the global shoe building of the two phase of Dongguan Hao pan shoe material square. Although it is eleven, a large number of stores are still closed, and no customers can be seen. "This year's work is generally late, and I don't know why," a security guard said. "Basically do familiar customers, usually the flow is not big," said the boss of a shoe shop, busy finishing the goods. The two shops beside them have been emptied, leaving only signboards at the door of the shop. One of the doors was also posted with a notice of property management, which claimed that the owner was not paid in arrears and the property was recovered. There are only a few shops on the two floor, and more shops are locked, many of them go to the house.

With the global shoe industry building adjacent to the Hui Sen shoe city and Kangmei shoe city is also very cold, at least 80% of the shops have not yet opened the door, reporters saw sporadic one or two small trucks parked on the roadside. Some shops not only iron the general door, but even paste the "transfer" small advertisement. "I don't know what's going on. There's no one to come here." Ms. Hu, a Sichuan native, is the owner of a shoe store in shoe city. Ms. Hu said that the twenty or thirty square meter bunk was 2600 yuan a month, which was much more expensive than the nearby shoe building, but business was still bad. "It was originally wholesale, but now retail is also done, business is bad," Ms. Hu complained.

Ms Hu believes that not only are they too hard, but shoe factories are also difficult. Ms. Hu said her brother-in-law worked in a shoe factory, and thousands of large shoe factories expected to cut half of the workforce by the end of this year, and some shoe factories had collapsed last year. "Profit margins are small, and some orders are too low, so we dare not answer them. A lot of small shoe factories are running at a loss, "says a boss in D District of Hui Sen shoe city.

It is understood that there are more than 1500 shoe enterprises and more than 2000 supporting enterprises in Dongguan. According to the data previously disclosed by Dongguan's industry and Commerce Department, only in August 2011, the city cancelled and revoked 104 kinds of shoe enterprises. In addition to the companies officially registered and cancelled, how many enterprises have quietly closed? This figure is obviously unknowable.