The Chain Of Cotton And Textile Industry Is Emitting "Cold".

During the hot summer season, when interviewed by some cotton producing areas and cotton textile enterprises, they felt the chill of the whole industrial chain.

Jinlong Textile Co., Ltd., located in Wucheng County, has been closed down.

The company has only 10 thousand spindles and a staff member left behind said, "now many textile enterprises have been pferred to a very low level.

In terms of operating rate, large manufacturers 30% - 50%, many small factories have been shut down, as we have opened several times.

No way, no order, the market is very bad.

Reporters learned that in Yuncheng, Gaomi, Xiajin and other places, we have gathered hundreds of small and medium-sized cotton spinning enterprises such as Jinlong.

The downturn in the textile industry has been revealed since last year.

According to the data released by China Customs, China's textile exports totaled 94 billion 700 million US dollars in 2011, an increase of 22.9% over the same period last year, but the growth rate dropped by 6.5 percentage points. Our province exported 1 US dollars from 1 to June this year, down 4.2% from the same period last year.

Ma Junkai, Secretary General of Dezhou Cotton Association, said in an interview with reporters that the main reason for the cotton textile industry to enter "cold winter" is the international market downturn and the cost factors of textile enterprises.

In the cost of textile enterprises, cotton accounts for 70%, and cotton prices determine the life and death of textile enterprises to some extent.

Reporters learned that, compared with the high price of 32000 yuan / ton cotton in early 2009, today's price can be said to be parity.

But Ma Junkai said: "the cost of cotton prices should be considered in the global context. This year, the world's cotton production area is large, the output is large, the supply exceeds demand, coupled with the economic recession and the reduction of cotton consumption, the international cotton prices have dropped sharply.

Compared with Southeast Asian countries, we have no cost advantage.

The recent decline in domestic cotton prices has not only made textile enterprises benefit from it, but also greatly dampened cotton growers' enthusiasm for planting cotton.

Zhou Zhenrui's village, like most of the rural areas in Xiajin, is mostly salinized land, and the quality of irrigation is poor, and the amount of water is small. It is not suitable for wheat, corn and other food crops.

"If it weren't for soil limitations, farmers would have abandoned cotton and grain."

At the end of June, Zhou Zhenrui told reporters on the side of a cotton fork.

"Recently, I heard that cotton has also been cut down, 3 yuan and 2 cents per catty, when the price of cotton was the highest last year, it reached 7 yuan a Jin."

Zhou Zhenrui worried about the introduction, now is the time when cotton is out of date, the price should have gone high, but according to the current situation, cotton price is estimated to have to fall, "cotton seed does not make money."

The cotton planting area in our province has been declining.

Ma Junkai introduced that the cotton planting area of Dezhou in 2012 was 1 million 300 thousand mu, 20% lower than last year, while the whole Shandong province decreased by 15%.

New arrival cotton: "one warehouse is hard to find"

In the Qian Wan bonded port area of Qingdao, the pressure on cotton is not two days a day.

July is the peak season for cotton imports.

According to past years, a large number of cotton textile enterprises will basically digest the domestic cotton in the year after May, and the imported cotton in advance has been shipped in April and May, and will arrive at the Chinese port in June and July.

Hong Chuan Logistics Co., Ltd. is Qingdao.

The largest cotton logistics enterprise in the port area at this time of the year, the cotton storage rate of the 5 large bonded warehouses will reach 70%, which is also the highest storage rate in a year.

This year is different.

General manager Jia Shaobin told reporters: "our company's warehouse is now full, and after the Spring Festival this year, has maintained a 100% storage rate.

New arrival cotton can be said to be "one library is hard to find", are waiting in line to enter the library.

In July 9th, at the site of the 2 bonded warehouse of Hong Chuan logistics, the reporter saw that the cotton that had been compressed into cuboid was nearly full of nearly 20 meters high warehouse. A forklift truck carrying cotton was coming back and forth from the reporters, but cotton could not get in.

If you look carefully at the time when cotton arrives, it was first in January last year.

For the reason why cotton is depressed, Jia Shaobin thinks, "there is no demand for cotton spinning enterprises in the lower reaches, and many of our company's cotton textile enterprises are 100 thousand to 500 thousand spindles of large and medium sized cotton spinning enterprises.

"Since cotton can not be stored, why do enterprises continue to import cotton?"

"A lot of orders were discussed last year, and another important reason is that many cotton spinning enterprises see the low price of imported cotton this year, which is considered to be a good opportunity for bottom reading, which has increased imports."

Reporters learned that compared with the current 17500 to 18000 yuan / ton of domestic cotton, the price of imported cotton is about 14000 yuan / ton, about 4000 yuan per ton.

At the entire port of Huangdao, China's largest cotton import port, it is showing a state of "cotton full suffering", which is also a reflection of a large number of cotton textile enterprises facing a "survival test".

China's textile advantages are not obvious.

The head of Ruyi group in Shandong, Qiu Yafu, who entered the textile industry at the age of 17, is now marveled at the textile industry in Pakistan, India and Southeast Asia.

With the advantage of low labor costs and the liberalization of the market environment, these countries have undergone major changes in the level of textile technology and equipment.

"I have recently visited more than 30 enterprises in Pakistan, where the textile equipment is one notch higher than that of China, and the textile industry is strongly supported at the national level.

If a textile enterprise goes to a local factory, the state will use financial guarantee to get 10% of the profits.

If less than 10%, the state finance subsidies to enterprises for five years. "

Qiu Yafu believes that China's related policies have a negative impact on the textile industry.

He explained: "25% of textile export tax rebates are borne by local governments. Now every dollar is exported, and the local government will subsidize export enterprises with money.

Some local governments are trying to get rid of these export enterprises.

In addition, under the influence of cotton quota management and purchase and storage management, China's textile enterprises have a price difference of several thousand yuan per ton of cotton in international competition, which is why China's textile manufacturing level is so high that it is now generally losing money.

The reporter understands that at present, China consumes 10 million tons of cotton per year and produces 7 million tons, with an average import volume of 3 million tons per year.

Why not use a lot of cheap cotton imports?

Ma Junkai told reporters that he did not let go of imports in order not to repeat the mistakes of soybean oil industry chain was controlled by foreign capital.

The state guarantees the cotton acreage and yield by collecting and storing cotton in the market, and ultimately protects the whole cotton industry chain.

It includes a sliding tax other than quotas, which is equivalent to setting a bottom line for imported cotton prices. The aim is to reduce the impact of imported cotton on domestic cotton market and ensure cotton farmers' income.

"The effect of policy is sometimes a double-edged sword. It is an option to increase the quota of cotton imports or increase the direct subsidy to cotton farmers like the United States.

After all, keeping cotton prices stable is most beneficial to the industry as a whole.

Xia Zhilin, President of Shandong Textile Industry Association, said that the reality has already sounded the alarm.

China's advantages in raw materials and low-end products are not obvious. If we want to continue to occupy the market share of overseas textiles, we must find another way to improve the added value of products.

Enterprises must face the problem.