"Winter" Has Arrived, Clothing And Shoe Factories Half Stoppage.

Manufacturing industry "winter" unexpectedly arrives 1 yuan clothing reappearance up and down nine

The survival state of small and medium enterprises

One of the in-depth investigations

The US economy shows signs of stagflation.

In the first quarter, when the economic growth dropped to 1.8%, the US CPI in April increased by 3.2% over the same period, higher than the market expectation. Meanwhile, retail and food service sales growth was lower than market expectations.

China, despite the strong foreign trade and economic growth figures, has found that the winter of small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises has arrived unexpectedly, with a large number of clothing and footwear factories in the semi stop state, and a few enterprises have begun to fail.

Sales situation

1 yuan clothing store reproduction nine up and down

Recently, a reporter conducted in-depth investigation in Guangzhou, found that, due to raw materials and

Many shops in the nine pedestrian streets in Guangzhou are specially designed to deal with factories at low cost or to clean up inventory and directly connect factories and consumer markets.

The price of these shops is undoubtedly a thermometer for China's clothing and footwear manufacturing industry.

After the outbreak of the financial crisis, many factories closed down and lost money, and nine of them appeared 1 yuan clothing stores.

Yesterday, reporters visited nine road and people's Middle Road, and found that 1 yuan clothing once again emerged.

On the top and bottom nine roads, a shop made a sale on the last day, and the price of a pile of clothes at the entrance was 3~9 yuan / piece.

The clerk said that he had heard that more factories had been closed down recently, and that there were more cheap clothes.

The reporter also found a 1 yuan clothing shop, I saw the door hung with several towels pure cotton sweater, a piece of "super value sale 1 yuan / piece selected" brand is particularly eye-catching.

Most of these garments are made of pure cotton products with good quality.

The owner of the clothing store told reporters that the factory's tail cargo seemed to be very numerous recently, so that the selling space could not be sold.

Guangzhou

Production situation

Export orders for garment factories halved

Guangzhou Zengcheng Xintang town is a world-famous cowboy production base, known as the "world cowboy three points have one" reputation.

In May 19th, our reporter went to Xintang for an in-depth investigation and found that the garment processing industry has entered the "winter" ahead of schedule.

Li Yongqiang is the director of the tailor shop of a garment factory in Xintang. There are five hundred or six hundred workers in his factory, specializing in the brand of children's jeans. The order of 1/3 is an internal sale list, and the second of three per cent is from the outside of Europe. Before the factory, the shipment can reach 220 thousand to 250 thousand, but the order has been reduced from March. Now, the monthly shipment is less than 100 thousand, and more than half.

Li Yongqiang said that in recent years, many small garment factories have been closed down in Xintang, even though there are not many products in big factories.

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It is a medium-sized company.

"This year, the situation is even more severe than before the financial crisis," said Zhanjia and his wife.

According to its introduction, the off-season starts in the middle of 5 months, and this year the off-season has been advanced for more than a month. Orders have been greatly reduced since the end of March.

The seven brothers clothing factory in Dun Road, Xintang, all sold in the domestic market. However, at noon, reporters could not see a few people in the production workshop, and only one floor was stacked with ready-made clothes.

Yan Dunquan, one of the partners, said that the workers had gone to lunch at noon, but the reporter could judge from the empty car clothing that the starting rate of the unit should be very low.

Yan Dunquan said, compared with the same period last year, the factory's orders fell by at least 2~3.

Yan Dunquan pointed to the clothing factory on the street. He said that even during the day, lights would be turned on when he started work.

The reporter observed that most factories did not turn on the lights.

Shoe enterprises

It's not just the clothing industry, but also the shoe industry.

Guo Zhenhua is the owner of the three township Zhongshan Bao Fu rubber and plastic products factory, which provides shoe materials for large shoe factories.

It indicated that the entire footwear industry is now entering the cold winter. Over the past year, the total production cost of footwear industry has increased by 30% to 40%, making the price of domestic shoe factories now high, and many foreign merchants have shifted their orders to Vietnam and other countries.

Guo Zhenhua said that the Guangdong side mainly produces high-end shoes. Since October last year, orders have shrunk by about 30%. Jinjiang, Fujian, mainly produces low-end shoes, which are more impacted.

He recently went to Jinjiang for an inspection, and found that the situation was even worse than before the financial crisis. There were no orders, workers were scattered, and many factories closed.

However, some enterprises do not worry about orders, but they dare not take orders simply because they can not recruit workers.

"At present, the factory operates only a little more than 1/3 of the previous production line."

Yesterday, the Secretary of the board of directors of Guangdong Haifeng Shoes Co., Ltd., located in Zengcheng stone beach, told reporters Chen Wusi.

The reason for this is not the absence of orders, but the failure to recruit workers.

Chen Wusi said that in the past 2003~2004 years, the number of workers in the factory has reached 18000, but now there are only 5000 factories in Guangzhou.

The production scale of Zengcheng's factories has also been shrinking. After the financial crisis, the production line has been reduced by half, and the production line currently operates only a little more than 1/3.

In order to deal with this problem, Haifeng shoe industry has set up two factories in Hunan and Meizhou.

However, the total number of workers in the three factories is still more than 2000 less than that at the peak.

Chen Wusi told reporters: "we do not worry about orders, but because recruitment is difficult, we have a single dare not answer."

With the increasing difficulty of recruitment in Guangzhou, the company has planned to withdraw all production links from Guangzhou, build headquarters in Guangzhou, and retain R & D and logistics.

"With the increase of investment in cities in the mainland, more factories will be migrating to the mainland."