Guangzhou Garment Enterprises Are Disturbed By Manpower Cost To Visit Workshop In Kampuchea

The 2012 Guangzhou international hosted by the Guangzhou Municipal People's government for 4 days.

The Guangzhou fashion week opened.

Reporters at the scene of the fashion week learned that, affected by the economic crisis, this year's clothing enterprises generally saw a decline in profits. "Fashion enterprises and export enterprises have been hit more."

A clothing business person in charge told reporters.

Reporters learned that there are already local enterprises to Kampuchea and other places to inspect the development of the plant.

Development of manpower bottleneck in Kampuchea

As the distributing center of clothing in the whole country,

Entrepreneurs have noticed the news that Nike, Adidas and even customers are pferring their factories to foreign countries in the near future.

Reporters learned that local enterprises have also been abroad to inspect the development of local plants.

"We just came back from Kampuchea."

Local family

Mr. Zeng (alias), group leader, told reporters: "the cost of labor in Vietnam, Kampuchea and other countries is very low at present, such as Kampuchea is only 150 US dollars / month, and now it is 500 dollars / month in the country, even if Vietnam is half as low as in China, it is very attractive in terms of labor cost."

However, Mr Tsang also said that although the labor force is cheap, local development may soon encounter bottlenecks. "At present, the labour force in Kampuchea is only 14 million, while only 400 thousand of the garment industry is concerned. Even from the base of the labor force, even the expansion of its garment industry is restricted by the labor force.

Developing clothes locally is not as simple as imagination. "

Mr. Tsang said.

Underwear is less affected by economic shocks.

"This year is the worst year I've ever worked."

Ceng Fuhao, general manager of Guangzhou high industry Co., Ltd., told reporters.

He said that compared with the peak season in 7 and August of this year, the sales volume has dropped by 20% this year. "We have made more than ten years' brand and have a steady source of tourists, which is much better than other small and medium-sized garment manufacturers."

Reporters learned that in the current clothing industry, underwear is considered less impact category.

Wu Weilin, deputy general manager of Guangzhou Ligong min Knitting Co., Ltd., told reporters that underwear (or home furnishing clothes) can still maintain growth in the entire garment industry, and Ligong workers have increased by more than 10% in the first half of the year.

"First of all, we mainly go to the domestic trade, accounting for 70%, and the customers are mostly middle-aged and old people. They consume clothing differently from young people's consumption habits. They belong to rigid demand products that must be bought. Secondly, in terms of exports, the democracy of the industry should be the Middle East and the Chinese Hongkong market, which has avoided the serious impact of the current economic crisis in Europe and the United States, so the pressure is not so great."

According to Wu Weilin, at present, the fashion enterprises that take the "fashion" route have been hit harder. "Because this kind of clothing can be bought or not, and is affected by the economic environment."

In addition, export oriented SMEs are also affected more. "