Oil Prices Rose And Export Shoe Enterprises Were Hit Again.

With the change of electricity shortage, exchange rate changes and subprime mortgage crisis to the US trade and the implementation of new labor contract law and other new background conditions, the Pearl River Delta enterprises, especially textiles, shoes and household industries, are suffering from the pain brought by changes in the internal and external environment.

Enterprises call on the government to create a more relaxed foreign trade environment.

According to the statistics of Guangzhou customs, the total export value of Guangdong in the first quarter of 2008 was 86 billion 730 million US dollars, up 16% from the same period last year (the same period). The growth rate dropped 12.2 percentage points over the same period last year.

Among them, textiles, clothing, plastic products, toys, footwear and other low value-added, lack of pricing power of the labor-intensive industries have been greatly impacted.

Reporters learned that enterprises face three major difficulties.

Li Xiangming, deputy director of Guangdong economic and Trade Commission, said that the PRD enterprises are experiencing the most serious power shortage situation in Guangdong Province in the past 30 years.

In addition to the impact of snow and ice disasters, the seasonal dry season also led to the closure of 8922 small hydropower stations in Guangdong.

At the same time, the increase in electricity and oil prices will not allow the small units close to 3 million kilowatts in the PRD to function properly.

At present, Guangdong is still facing a power gap of millions of kilowatts.

After the Spring Festival, the government issued a special response policy - "opening four stops three", that is, four days of commencement of work and three days of stoppage.

Guangdong Foshan Nanhai trillion enterprise is a textile raw material export entity.

Yang Zhongqing, chairman of the company, said that the lack of electricity has had a relatively big impact on enterprises.

In order to cope with the situation of peak load consumption, Guangdong Foshan Nanhai trillion bought six generators this year. However, it can only meet 50% of the normal electricity consumption in the factory.

The textile industry is a large demand for electricity industry.

Yang Zhongqing said, "my factory has a power consumption of 3 million degrees per month and can not be cut off for 24 hours. Once the power is cut off, all the lines will be broken.

At the same time, spinning requires constant temperature and humidity, and it will take more than two hours to re adjust the air conditioner.

The negative impact of blackouts on enterprises is self-evident.

Enterprises can not start, orders delivery date is approaching, many enterprises are very "headache."

Some small and medium enterprises that can not afford generators and diesel oil can only be forced to close down. Enterprises with a little strength can take their own way of purchasing generators to cope with the current shortage of electricity. Although this can alleviate the pressure of electricity shortage to a certain extent, it will inevitably increase the cost of enterprises to varying degrees.

Liang Jin Lian, vice chairman of the Taiwanese Businessmen Association of Nanhai District of Foshan and chairman of Nanhai Guo Da Hardware Co., Ltd., said that the order was tight, but it could be used two or three times a week, and the factory had to generate electricity by itself.

The monthly electricity consumption of the factory is 700 thousand degrees. The electricity cost per hour is six to 70 Fen, but now it is nearly two yuan, more than double.

Now, the electricity cost of the factory is 500 thousand yuan a month, an increase of 1/3, an increase of more than 160 thousand.

At the same time, the wages of workers should be paid, and other supporting manufacturers are also suffering from power shortage, which is invisible.

Moreover, with the rise of international oil prices, the contradiction between supply and demand of the domestic refined oil market is becoming increasingly prominent.

"Companies are rich now and they can't buy diesel oil," Yang Zhongqing said. "We can only queue up and support the relationship."

The subprime mortgage crisis, the US dollar depreciation: the double attack and the worsening export situation to the US were affected by the subprime crisis. The US economic growth slowed down, the US dollar continued to depreciate, and Guangdong's export trade with the United States was also greatly affected.

In the first quarter of this year, Guangdong exported $16 billion 258 million to the US, an increase of 4.8%, an increase of 10.7 percentage points.

Liang Jin Lian, vice chairman of the Taiwanese Businessmen Association of Nanhai District of Foshan and chairman of Nanhai Guo Da Hardware Co., Ltd., said that the hardware and home businesses he operated were greatly influenced by the subprime mortgage crisis.

The company is a supplier of the American retail giant's Wal Mart shelf. In the past, Walmart was the unified purchasing related tools and products. It orders every three months. However, due to the subprime crisis, the number of orders delivered by Wal Mart has not only greatly reduced, but also the delivery cycle has been lengthened and irregularly regulated, and the subprime mortgage crisis has reduced corporate profits by 10%.

Barbara, chairman of Foshan Nanhai Shoes Co., Ltd., Zhan Yongrui, said that for the labor-intensive shoe making enterprises, the foreign trade situation is even more serious.

Last year, 2000 enterprises in Dongguan were closed, of which 500 were shoe makers.

The shoes produced by Nanhai Barbara Shoes Co., Ltd. are mainly exported to the European and American markets. In the first quarter of this year, US orders were reduced by 30%, due to the subprime crisis and exchange rate.

In the past, buyers in the United States had planned several stores a year, and the next order was made every three months. Now the situation has changed a lot, sometimes four or five months before placing orders, and the order quantity is small, and the time is urgent.

Yang Zhongqing, chairman of Foshan Mega Li, said that the appreciation of the renminbi has great impact on the textile exports to the United States, especially for garment exporting enterprises. "Now, the order of the United States does not come to China, but to Vietnam, Thailand, India and other countries.

In the past, the profit of the textile industry was 20%, which fell to 3%-5% in two years.

In this regard, the reporter recommended to the enterprise: first, in the use of electricity, we should strengthen the pmission of electricity from the west to the East.

Foreign trade and economic cooperation departments have been emphasizing investment promotion, but if electricity and other supporting measures can not keep pace with them, the pace of investment promotion should be slowed down.

It can buy part of the electricity price, part of the government subsidies, give the money to the power plant, and encourage more power plants to participate in the supply.

Second, the government can guide enterprises to avoid exchange rate risks, such as adopting forward exchange rate method to advance the US dollar.

Third, when introducing regulations on new labor contract law, the local authorities should take more account of local conditions, make them more operable and implement the situation well.