"Going West" And "Going South" Are The Current Choices For Textile And Garment Intensive Manufacturing Industries.

With the gradual emergence of resources and labor force advantages in Southeast Asia and China's central and western regions, the pace of manufacturing industry represented by the IT industry has been accelerating. The impact of the transfer of some multinational enterprises on the eastern region has become increasingly apparent.

According to some integrated circuit and LCD panel production enterprises in Suzhou Industrial Park, some of the orders began to shift to the central and western regions. Chongqing, Chengdu and other places are making every effort to create notebooks. industry chain Hefei will also build tens of millions of laptop production bases, and the flow of orders in the coming period is very obvious.

Data from authoritative departments show that Guangdong's recent import and export volume to major markets such as the European Union and Japan has shown a negative growth. The import and export volume of the European Union dropped by 1.3% compared with the same period last year, to 2.9% in Japan, and the manufacturing province with Mechatronics as the dominant industry. In the first 4 months of this year, the growth of foreign trade and import and export in Jiangsu was weak, and the import and export volume was 164 billion 860 million US dollars, down 1% from the same period last year. At the same time, the import and export volume of some central and western provinces (regions and cities) increased sharply. In January ~4, Henan, Chongqing and Guangxi achieved import and export volume of US $14 billion 840 million, US $13 billion 520 million and US $8 billion 640 million, which increased 1 times, 1.4 times and 34% respectively.

In addition, with the increase of domestic resources and labor costs, the relative advantages of neighboring countries have been highlighted. Some foreign-funded enterprises have stepped up the pace of layout and industrial transfer to Southeast Asian countries, especially in recent years. Textile and clothing Labor intensive industries are rapidly shifting to Bangladesh, Vietnam, Kampuchea and other countries. Reporters in Wuxi red bean group learned that due to rising costs, the company's low-grade clothing products have been unable to compete with Southeast Asian and South American countries, the current handheld orders are only half of the same period last year.

According to Zhang Xin, director of the Nanjing Customs Statistics Department, with the transfer of production focus to the western region or Southeast Asia by Foxconn and other multinational groups, its impact on the future development of the eastern foreign trade will be further manifested, and will bring challenges to the economic growth of the eastern traditional foreign trade Province in a certain period.