Review Of The Development Of China'S Textile Industry In The Past Ten Years

In the past 10 years, China

The industry is not easy to walk, but all the ditches can not stop its stubborn growth.

In the past 10 years, China's textile industry has gone through the quota era and the post quota era. It has gone through trade friction to anti-dumping, and has been hit by the financial crisis and encountered the cold wave of economic crisis.

All the way, but the Chinese textile industry still handed out the perfect answer.

Growth in quota restraint

It was around 2000.

Jiangsu CHENFENG group Limited by Share Ltd is a private company in Jiangsu.

Enterprises are very famous in Jiangsu, but the main business of factories is processing trade companies. They want to go to overseas markets to play their cards, but they are struggling.

Shanghai silk, a state-owned trading company located in the Yangtze River Delta, is also the most popular exporter in Shanghai.

In 2001, the export volume of textile and clothing of Shanghai silk company reached the highest historical site - US $800 million, ranking first among all kinds of enterprises in Shanghai, even exceeding the export volume of Baosteel, a large iron and steel company.

The days of private textile enterprises and state-run textile enterprises are just two days of ice and fire.

The secret lies in whether or not companies are holding quotas.

At that time, the quota share of Shanghai silk was very large in the national textile industry.

Quotas for the older generation of textile people, like food stamps to our fathers, is the most profound memory.

Today, China is known to almost every corner of the world.

Among the many Chinese made products, China's textiles are very important.

"Textile industry is a traditional pillar industry in China's national economy, an important livelihood industry, and also an obvious industry with international competitive advantages."

Ma Shuping, an associate research fellow and senior economist at the Enterprise Research Institute of the State Council Development Research Center, told the reporter of "China made economic news".

China has surpassed Mexico for the first time in 1995 to become the largest importer of textiles and clothing in the United States, with an import volume of 4 billion 960 million square meters, an increase of 124.5% over the same period last year. Its share of the market increased from 6.7% in the previous year to 13%, and the import value was 8 billion 740 million US dollars, an increase of 33.8%.

From a global perspective, in 2001, China's textile and apparel exports accounted for over 10% of the world's exports.

Because of this, many countries are afraid of China's textile exports, and the textile quota system is a reflection of this worrying system.

From 1986 to 1994, this is a long negotiation.

After 7 years of hard work, the agreement on textiles and clothing was finally signed.

According to the agreement, China's textiles and clothing have received the same treatment as other contracting parties.

In accordance with the agreement reached by Member States, from 1995 to the end of 2004, after 10 years of pition, the quota restrictions on textiles and clothing were abolished in three phases among WTO members.

That is to say, since January 1, 2005, developed countries have abolished import quotas for textiles from developing countries.

A large number of China's private textile enterprises have finally come to the great advantage of changing their fortunes. Facts have proved that with the gradual reduction of the quota constraint, China's textile industry has been developing an unprecedented vitality.

In 2003, China's textile and apparel exports amounted to US $78 billion 850 million, with an annual growth rate of 27.7%, accounting for 20% of the US import market and 15% of the EU market.

But even in 2005, the developed countries still did not give up efforts to limit China's textile and clothing exports.

In 2001, as a compromise condition for China's accession to the WTO, the United States obtained the right to impose quota restrictions on Chinese made products before 2008.

The same rights also include other members of the WTO.

But even so, China's textile and clothing exports still achieved blowout development.

In 2005, China's textile and clothing exports increased by US $115 billion 30 million, an increase of 20.9%, of which US exports to US $18 billion 640 million, an increase of 70.5%, and exports to the EU of US $18 billion 320 million, an increase of 56.9%.

At the end of 2005, the United States and the European Union became China's first and second largest target markets.

Grow before trade barriers

It was around 2005.

The year without "made in China" is popular in the world.

Sarah Banzerni, an American journalist, describes her family's boycott of "made in China" for nearly a year, and finally finds that "life without Chinese products is a mess."

In the west, ordinary people are beginning to pay attention to Chinese made goods, especially Chinese textiles.

Before the export influence, Western governments and industry people have long been concerned about this.

In 2006, Hebei Shun Xi children's clothing company was refused to accept a batch of orders from German buyers. After several communication, it was known that the buttons were not used to meet the environmental requirements.

In the textile and clothing export province of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian, there were numerous textile and garment processing export enterprises.

The quota restrictions imposed by the United States and European countries obviously can not effectively restrict the entry of cheap and cheap Chinese textile and clothing products, so trade barriers have been applied frequently.

In 2006, the United States launched an anti-dumping case against Chinese textile and clothing, once known as "the first big case of textile anti-dumping between China and the United States", which is very representative.

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In June of that year, 3 manufacturers of polyester staple made a written indictment to the US International Trade Commission and the Ministry of Commerce, asking for anti-dumping investigations on some PET staple fibres imported from China and levying an average anti-dumping duty of 101.52%.

Subsequently, the anti-dumping investigation carried out by the US Department of Commerce involved about $65 million, involving nearly 100 Chinese companies.

Finally, the United States International Trade Commission (WTO) made an anti-dumping damage to China's PET staple, and the general tax rate of Chinese importers was 44.3%.

In addition to such tariff barriers, more and more technical barriers have been set up in recent years.

In 2010, a total of 30 items of textile and clothing industries were involved in the global technical barriers to trade barriers (DT).

In 2010, the Canadian Department of health's recall and notification of textiles and clothing products in China increased significantly.

A total of 23 notifications were issued in 2010, 7 in 2009, and 5 in 2008.

"Some countries will introduce some rigid technical requirements for fear of attacking their own textile and garment enterprises. To a large extent, they want to stop the entry of Chinese goods as much as possible."

Li Shunxi, the manager of the original Shun Xi children's clothing company, is very thorough about the frequent technical requirements of the western countries.

Li Shunxi told the "China made news" reporter, compared with the products of developed countries, there are still some gaps in China's technology, especially for some small processing plants.

Just like their own factory, no R & D department, technology is difficult to improve, so the impact is also the largest.

Finally, we had to close the company two years ago.

However, there are more and more Chinese companies with high-end technology. At the same time, the mentality and experience of Chinese enterprises in dealing with trade barriers are getting more and more mature.

China's textile and garment industry has been growing again and again under the international trade barriers.

Statistics show that in the last years of 11th Five-Year, the total industrial output value (current price) of the textile enterprises above Designated Size reached 4 trillion and 668 billion 420 million yuan, representing a cumulative increase of 4.2 times compared with the beginning of this century, with an average annual growth rate of 18%. In 2010, the total export volume of textile and clothing reached 212 billion US dollars, an increase of 3.1 times than that in 2000, with an average annual growth rate of 15.1%, which has increased from 14.7% in 2000 to 34.3% in the world.

Survive under economic crisis

It was around 2010.

The financial crisis, which broke out in 2008, has ended, and the economic crisis triggered by it has become increasingly severe, and has finally spread to textile and garment enterprises.

Compared with the same period last year, Jinjiang silk textile and garment Weaving Co., Ltd. has reduced its business volume by nearly 4, and the boot rate is only 8.

Less orders, slower return of capital, and serious arrears. In the past month, the repayment period has changed to three or four months.

Although the cost of raw materials has dropped by about 10% this year, the cost of labor has risen sharply, and there has been little profit.

Whenever possible, businesses have to be "strong".

"If we want to maintain our old customers and ensure skilled workers do not run away, we will be finished at the first stop and basically quit the market."

Wu Chengyao, the manager of the company, appeared helpless and confused when he interviewed some media.

At present, Chinese textile and garment enterprises seem to be in the most severe test.

Under the influence of the world economic crisis, the market for domestic and foreign demand has shrunk sharply. At the same time, the rising cost of raw materials and labor has become a dilemma.

Survival under the crisis has become the biggest topic of China's textile and garment enterprises.

In the 1-5 months of this year, China's textile and apparel exports totaled 93 billion 523 million US dollars, up 2.63% from the same period last year, down 23.57% from the same period last year.

In the 1-5 months of this year, the total export volume of textile and garment exports to the European Union was 31 billion 216 million US dollars in all countries and regions of China's textile and clothing exports, up by -2.9% compared with the same period last year.

However, despite the fact that China's textile and garment enterprises are in a predicament from the figures, it seems to experts that the poor operation of the manufacturing industry is a situation faced by many countries. The economy of the whole world is still under the shadow of the economic crisis. This is not a unique problem in China, and there is no need to be too pessimistic.

Ma Shuping, who has just completed the survey, introduced to the "China made news" reporter that from the research results, the equipment and technology level of China's textile and garment industry has been greatly improved, and more enterprises have begun to focus on R & D, and the product has already formed a certain market competitiveness, has a certain brand ability, and the management level is gradually improving.

Ma Shuping also gave his own advice on how to break through from the predicament.

Ma Shuping pointed out that drawing on the experience of foreign countries in developing modern textile industry, there are two important ways to make the textile industry stronger and better.

First, make full use of the role of the textile industry in basic industries and cultural industries.

Some developed countries have constantly developed sophisticated textile new materials through the integration of culture, so that the textile industry has always maintained an international competitive edge in high-end and market segments.

Japan has a clear strategic positioning and understanding of the textile industry: first of all, it is the life and cultural industry that meets people's needs of different cultures and values; secondly, it provides business and employment opportunities for local businesses, supporting the important industries of local economic development, and once again is the basic industry with broad prospects for development in the future. Finally, the cutting-edge textile technology is related to national security problems and can not be abandoned.

It is precisely because of this understanding that the Japanese textile industry has pformed into "Comprehensive Chemistry", "sophisticated materials" and "fiber fashion".

For example, the European Union takes the textile industry as a more prominent position in the development of cultural industries, and hence the birth of world brands.

Second, through the development of industrial textile industry to be stronger and better.

The development of clothing and home textiles to industrial textiles is one of the important paths for the pformation and development of textile industry in some developed countries.

Industrial textiles are also known as "technical textiles". Many high performance products use advanced nanotechnology and biotechnology. They are widely used in aerospace, new energy, geotechnical and construction, pportation, medical and health, environmental protection, industry, agriculture, forestry, fishery and other fields. They are capital intensive, high technology, less labor, and high added value.

The characteristics of huge demand and other advantages are the most potential development directions of textile industry in the past 10 years.