Western Textile Town, Snow And Snow: 80% "Zombie" Survival

It has passed through autumn, and Chongqing is still hot and humid.

At this time, Huang Shuxian made an important decision: sell the weaving machine. This decision is full of helplessness. Over the past decade, these machines have been the livelihoods of the Huang Shu Xian family. However, the ups and downs of cotton prices, the continued downturn in the downstream market, spread at the end of last year. Spin The downfall of enterprises is eroding the economic foundation of the family and eating the economic lifeline of Huang Shuxian's Huilong dam town.

The annual average cloth production in Huilong dam occupies more than 50% of Chongqing, while the textile industry accounts for more than 90% of the total economic volume of the town. At present, 80% of the textile enterprises are in the "zombie" state of shutting down or reducing production. For this small town, winter has already arrived ahead of schedule.

The anomaly of "tranquil" town

Huilong dam town is located in the west of Chongqing Shapingba central business district nearly 40 kilometers, has 40 years of textile history.

During the lunch break in August 29th, Xu Xingquan planned to go to Wu Chunfu's factory again.

There is a street between Xu Xingquan's office and Economic Development Office of the dragon dam town, which is separated from Wu Chunfu's factory. The sun is shining on the streets of Qingdao. There are few pedestrians, and the shutter doors on both sides are closed. Occasionally, one or two doors open on a rolling door and a small crowd of people is showing a glimmer of popularity.

This street is the "textile Street" of Huilong dam town. In 1997, the Chongqing municipal government granted the title of "textile professional town" in the town and planned the street.

"The houses on both sides of the street are set up in front of the living area, followed by the factory buildings." Xu Xing told reporters on the daily economic news (micro-blog) that over the past decade, the shutter doors on the street were closed, but behind the door there was a deep clatter.

In the memory of Huang Shu Xian, many people in the Huilong dam have a loom. "People do farm work during the day, weaving at night, and the click of looms are lullabies of childhood."

At first, the Huilong dam used these two looms to produce simple objects such as shoelaces, caps, rope and so on, and later circulated in this town. Later, some business savvy Huilong dam people gradually purchased looms and gradually formed a big industry in the local area.

At present, the people of Huilong dam are mostly engaged in textile related work. The annual average cloth production accounts for more than 50% of the total fabric output of Chongqing. In 2011, the town's textile sales revenue amounted to 3 billion 700 million yuan, accounting for nearly 20% of the total textile market share.

"The situation is different now." Standing on the side of the street, posted by the telegraph pole of the "textile mill transfer" notice, Xu Xingquan looked gloomy. "Since the Spring Festival this year, more than 500 textile enterprises in the town have been discontinued 80%, and the rest have been reduced to varying degrees, and the textile street has become quiet."

　 Textile enterprises encounter "June snow"

Standing in front of the rolling door of Wu Chunfu's factory, Xu Xingquan's hands were lifted and lowered, and he repeated so many times that he still did not ring the door. "He is now unable to protect himself, and I am ashamed to ask him again."

He was about to leave, and when he turned around, he heard a car horn. "Director Xu, what do you want me to do?" Wu Chunfu looked out of his car and asked him, "no problem. I'll come over to see it."

In this wave of production shutdown, Wu Chunfu's factory can still produce sporadic production on the basis of his personal connections accumulated over the past ten years in the industrial chain.

Wu Chunfu opened the shutter door, and there was a clatter. Nearly 200 square meters of production workshop, more than 20 looms were working nervously, and nearly 10 machines were still shut down.

"Now we have to make a single loss, but not to lose much money." Wu Chunfu said that Xu Xingquan had looked for him several times recently, hoping to find a way to find some lists.

Xu Xingquan worries that the recession of the textile industry will directly bring down the economy of Huilong dam. After all, 509 of the more than 500 enterprises in the town are engaged in the textile industry.

Since July, the workers of the Yangtze Textile Co., Ltd., the largest textile enterprise in Chongqing, have received notice of shift work. At present, the company has only 20 sets of 56 warping machines, and only 10 of the 22 sizing machines are running, and more than half of the workshops are shut down.

Zhang Chengan, the party secretary of the company, said that its sizing production had entered the top ten of the country. In the past, it could produce 30 million meters of cotton yarn. This year's figure is less than 15 million meters. He likened the current situation of the factory to "flying snow in June". {page_break}

In this hot summer day, the "spinning snow in June" hit the spinning industry at the bottom of the industrial chain.

After June this year, Chongqing is new. Weaving Xiao Tianfu, a factory owner, has received a notice of reducing the number of partners in Jiangsu and Zhejiang coastal areas. "Our spinning and weaving business accounts for half of the total. Spinning is mainly used for weaving factories in the town. Now this is the time to store cotton, but we have no confidence in this industry, and basically do nothing."

In the Huilong dam dyeing and printing plant, nearly more than 300 square meters of storeroom only stacked a batch of white cloth at the Northeast wall, and the machines in the production workshop had ceased to roar. Although the factory often takes a few days off during the power failure, boss Ren Zongming has not yet closed the factory's idea of going out of business. "I want to take a look at it for a while. After all, if the workers are gone, it will be even harder to recruit when the situation is good."

"There are a lot of people in the Loom factory owner." Huang Shuxian said that in the town, there were many plans to sell machines as he did, and most of the small businesses stopped to do so.

In Xu Xingquan's view, the crisis in Huilong Ba town is a bit like "boiled frog in warm water". It is not as aggressive as the international financial crisis in 2008. However, under the influence of multiple factors, many textile enterprises are heading for a predicament. "You can hardly find out which straw is the last thing that killed the camel."

　 Extensive growth and hidden dangers?

Recalling the scene seen in Huilong Ba town in Chongqing in early July, Zhang Heng, a cloth trader in Guangdong, used a word to describe: shocking. There are two reasons: first, the number of local enterprises shutting down, and the two is the overall environment of the local textile industry.

Reporters learned that since the 90s of last century, with the rapid rise of export volume, China's textile industry has witnessed explosive development, and the textile enterprises in Huilong dam developed rapidly from the first more than 100 to 645 last year.

Wang Wei, deputy general manager of Yi Le textile, told reporters that "before and after 2010, the profit rate of the textile industry was once more than 10%." (micro-blog) At that time, almost all the town people were engaged in textile related work.

Explosive development makes the textile industry of Huilong Ba town have the characteristics of "small, scattered and chaotic" in layout. By 2011, there were only 272 textile companies with annual output value of more than 5 million yuan in Huilong dam.

Xu Xing said that all textile enterprises in Huilong dam are confined to the production of cloth parts. The raw materials of upstream cotton need to rely on foreign input, while downstream processing and terminal sales also depend on foreign enterprises.

In the eyes of Zhang Heng and other traders, the textile industry of Huilong dam is famous, and the low price is a major feature. Low quality and low quality are poor quality.

Zhang Wei, general manager of Shenzhen Shan Hai Yue economic and Trade Co., Ltd., believes that the domestic textile market has been in a state of malformation. In order to lower the cost and concentrate on the price war, instead of quality and reputation, the manufacturers at all levels are in the most important source of cloth manufacturers. "Since the second half of last year, the market has been very bad, and export orders from countries such as Europe and the United States have lost more than a half, and exports have shrunk sharply." He said that many export enterprises were attacking the domestic market, making the textile enterprises such as Huilong dam and other domestic textile enterprises hit by great competition.

More let textile enterprises bosses feel depressed, in recent years, Huilong town's demographic dividend is also gradually disappearing. Xu Xingquan said that in the past few years, the monthly average wage level of the textile workers of Huilong dam was around 2000 yuan, which was nearly 1000 yuan lower than that of Jiangsu and Zhejiang coastal areas. Now the monthly average wage level of the textile workers in Huilong dam has reached 3500 yuan, or even higher than that of the coastal areas. Compared with the newly emerging labor intensive areas such as Henan, in terms of electricity and labor, the production cost of the rice cloth in Huilong dam textile enterprise is 2 cents higher.

To this end, several textile enterprises in the town are ready to build factories in Henan and other places.

"We feel particularly at the forefront of the market, and the days are really bad." Zhang Wei said that since the beginning of this year, the trade volume of the company's fabrics has been reduced by more than a half. In order to digest risks, the downstream garment factories not only lower the unit price, but also require a batch of orders to be completed in batches.

The original sin of cotton

Chongqing is not a productive place for cotton. Local textile enterprises have been buying cotton from Xinjiang and Shandong for a long time, or purchasing cotton yarn from Chengdu and other places.

Bring back the dragon dam, Chengdu giant China Investment Co., Ltd. Sales Manager Peng Fei expression becomes elusive. Over the past few years, this is his main duty place, which brings about 80% of cotton yarn sales to his company every year, even if the market is not the best, sales accounted for 70% last year. {page_break}

Peng Fei set up an office in Huilong dam with two salesmen. He used to stay here for a few days every month, but he hasn't been there for nearly half a year, and the office has only one occasional salesperson. "This year's business is bad, with an estimated total share of less than 20%."

"There are still orders in the market, but for the domestic textile enterprises, especially the textile companies in Huilong dam, they can not catch orders." Peng Fei said that the cotton price difference at home and abroad has weakened the competitiveness of textile enterprises from the source.

In September 3rd, China's cotton price 328 index was 18551 yuan / ton, and the foreign cotton with the same specifications was still nearly 4000 yuan / ton lower than the index after being imported into quasi tax.

Peng Fei believes that the direct competition of textile enterprises represented by Huilong dam is the textile industry of new Southeast Asian countries such as Vietnam. The high cost of cotton raw materials and the disappearance of demographic dividend have all caused setbacks in the textile industry.

In addition, the continuous fluctuation of domestic cotton prices has also increased the operational risk of textile enterprises.

Reporter combing found that in August last year, cotton prices per ton 17 thousand yuan, began to soar in September, two months rose to 33 thousand yuan per ton, in February this year has reached a historical high of 35 thousand yuan. However, from March this year, cotton prices suddenly turned downward, and the price of cotton per ton dropped rapidly at a rate of 500 yuan for 3 days. In less than two months, cotton prices quickly dropped to 22 thousand yuan per ton.

According to the data released by the General Administration of customs, the total export volume of textiles and clothing in 1-7 months has been completely reversed to negative growth, of which exports in July dropped by 8.1% over the same period last year. A reporter learned from a cotton textile industry association's survey of 100 cotton textile enterprises in China showed that at least 30% of the above scale enterprises had limited production, and more than half of them had to stop production because of the high cost of using cotton. Most enterprises lost more than 2000 yuan per ton of pure cotton yarn per ton.

People of the Ministry of industry of China Textile Industry Federation said that many indicators of the textile industry are deteriorating. "The gross industrial output value of textile industry increased by 11% over the past 1-7 months, down by nearly 19 percentage points over the previous year, and the new construction projects continued to decline, decreasing by 9.4% in the 1-7 months, while the industry profits in the first half of the year dropped by nearly 2%, and the growth rate dropped by more than 40 percentage points over the same period last year, which is worse than in 2008."

Although the environment and the environment are not satisfactory, Xu Xingquan said he is still looking forward to the rebirth of the town, and the local government is planning. Spin Industrial Park, and plans to use the stop production period to transform and upgrade enterprises to achieve large-scale and modern production and operation.